New Scientist: Scale is the theme of a recent art exhibit at Measure Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, curated by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. “I wanted a theme where both art and science could participate and it wasn’t just art representing science or science pretending to be art, but where we could think deeply about ideas that underlie both of them,” Randall explains. In one of the pieces, “Measurements of Space in a Fractal Structured Vacuum,” artist Felicity Nove created paint pours reminiscent of supernova explosions and black holes on the Hubble website. The exhibit, Measure for Measure, on display 10 September through today, features seven artists and includes paintings, sculpture, and video and installation pieces.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
