To call Carrie Fisher a polymath would be an understatement.
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Janeway was a brilliant polymath and loyal to a fault.
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The songwriter and polymath Allee Willis at her California home.
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Work on Polymath problems is done publicly, and anyone can contribute.
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Is he really enough of a polymath to pull that off?
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He's a merchandiser and image-maker extraordinaire, and a creative polymath.
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It was one with musical polymath Pharrell Williams as a visiting lecturer.
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"We're in the age of the polymath," says Summit co-founder Jeff Rosenthal.
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For tickets to Fallingwater and the Duncan House at Polymath Park, visit Fallingwater.org.
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So what will it take for another polymath to follow in her tracks?
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He really was a polymath, precocious, driven, bipolar and to some extent bisexual.
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Dion is a soft-spoken and humorous polymath, whose interests sprawl in every direction.
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Though less known, Dylan has over the years revealed himself as a creative polymath.
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KC: Yeah I was gonna say he's not only a cashier, he's a polymath.
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All this—the idea of Donald Glover the award-winning polymath—should be simple.
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Festivals could be created by cult director and all-round creative polymath David Lynch.
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The protagonist of this unconventional novel is the seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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If you fancy yourself a bit of a polymath, log on and have a go.
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To book an overnight stay (from $2437 per night) at Polymath Park, go to polymathpark.com.
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That's not to say that he's a polymath, or wise, or even especially well-informed.
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Art Review The Congolese polymath Bodys Isek Kingelez (21997-2015) wasn't shy about his greatness.
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"A Death in the Family" is the only novel by the polymath writer James Agee.
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Dave Grohl wouldn't have turned into the smiley, elbow-rubbing polymath that he is today.
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He was a rare breed of wide-ranging polymath, well-versed in archaeology, history and ornithology.
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In the nineteenth century, the English polymath Francis Galton cast nature-versus-nurture in scientific terms.
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It was donated to the university by Scottish polymath and antiquarian David Lang in the 1870s.
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But probably his most enduring interest is a fellow polymath, an 18th-century German named Matthias Buchinger.
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Something of a polymath, she studied surgery in Paris under George Cuvier and helped build coal pits.
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But the British polymath—known by his alias Blood Orange—is not afraid to turn people down.
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However, as the philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi famously remarked, we know more than we can say.
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THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER Call him a Renaissance man or a polymath.
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The 53-year-old restaurateur is a polymath, an autodidact, and a whirling dervish of a conversationalist.
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Professor Arrow was widely hailed as a polymath, possessing prodigious knowledge of subjects far removed from economics.
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Teck says Ezingeard, an engineer and polymath, developed Ixxéo's elaborate naming process when he was studying Darwinian evolution.
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Donald Glover, the modern cultural polymath that he is, will add The Lion King remake to his resume.
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A shy 30-year-old and keen mountaineer, Pigou had something of the 19th-century polymath about him.
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired the archive of hip-hop polymath Michael Holman.
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Past winners have included the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, the choreographer Kyle Abraham and the polymath Meredith Monk.
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On Friday night, artistic polymath Sasha Velour was crowned the winner of Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
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While polymath inventors are less deep than the specialists, they tend to be even broader than the generalists.
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But, it turns out, underneath 30 years of layered polymath whimsy, the obsessed hacker hunter is still there.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, brings together works by the late experimental filmmaker (and polymath) Stan VanDerBeek and his daughter, photographer (and fellow polymath) Sara VanDerBeek, who is also the exhibition's co-curator.
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ET: Derek Scissor, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar; Trevor Koverko, Polymath CEO; Hank Smith, Haverford Trust chief investment officer.
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Rafia Santana, 27, artistic polymath Pay Black Time Santana engages in multiple mediums, including graphic design, printmaking, and photography.
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An old-fashioned polymath, he's been a technical co-founder (CTO), a growth hacker (CMO) and led sales (CEO).
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Part of this book's tremendous impact comes from the obvious fact that its author was such a brilliant polymath.
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Recently, de Grey was involved with a Polymath collaboration that led to significant progress on the twin prime problem.
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Then again, the English polymath Robert Fludd had engraved a black square in a white border back in 1617.
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The Atlanta creator opened the show with a genuinely funny monologue, poking fun at his reputation as a polymath.
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Donald Glover, a tireless polymath, is promoting the second season of his critically acclaimed FX show, Atlanta right now.
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What reconciles these writers is Miles Malleson, a 20th-century English theatrical polymath and the Mint Theater's latest discovery.
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But ask Ahmed Gallab—the musical polymath otherwise known as Sinkane—about the future, and he sounds downright excited.
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If there's anyone who can put this moment into context, it's the Harvard psychology professor and polymath Steven Pinker.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last night, 71-year-old polymath Laurie Anderson won her first-ever Grammy.
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Isobel Lennart's original book has been retooled (with an emphasis on the benignly risqué) by the Broadway polymath Harvey Fierstein.
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He's not just a young polymath with an eye on rap anymore, he's a soul junkie with a Prince obsession.
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A restless polymath, Ray has done more in the last two years than many artists manage across an entire career.
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Five years later Geoffrey Hinton, an English polymath, joined CIFAR and began work on the primitive field of neural networks.
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Francis Bacon, the 5003th-century English polymath, recommended snorting a bit of powdered castoreum as a cure for brain-fog.
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His father was a polymath engineer, mathematician, scientist, and experimental photographer whose own father, a philologist, published an anarchist newspaper.
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Poet Artist stands as a marvelous pop-formalist jewel, and evidence that Jonghyun had matured into a supreme pop polymath.
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But the first scientist to try to understand why this happens was probably Johannes Kepler, the German scientist and polymath.
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Though still in his early 20s, Guerin has already started to accrue a reputation as a jaw-dropping musical polymath.
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This Danish polymath, born Nanna Oland Fabricius, started her performing career as a student at the Royal Swedish Ballet School.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads STANFORD, CA — On March 11, 1948, the Ivorian polymath Frédéric Bruly Bouabré had a vision.
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Earth -- or "Spaceship Earth" as he calls it, borrowing the words of American polymath R. Buckminster Fuller -- is not beyond redemption.
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Is Islam the Koran as translated by Muhammad Asad, a polymath who dedicated the Muslim holy book "to people who think"?
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The tale of the Voynich Manuscript involves possible interactions with 16th-century magician John Dee and 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher.
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Word of the Day : a person of great and varied learning _________ The word polymath has appeared in 69 articles on NYTimes.
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The paintings of this Italian polymath have long been overshadowed by the brilliant work of his older brother, Giorgio de Chirico.
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IGOR is a masterful work by a polymath, an architect of an entire universe that coheres more clearly with each release.
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They voted for Jimmy Carter, a brilliant polymath whose upbeat brand of personal integrity projected an energetic, uncynical rebuke to Richard Nixon.
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Tao says not every math problem is a good fit for Polymath, but de Grey's has a few things going for it.
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"We're going to see bitcoin emerge as a payment network," said Trevor Koverko, chief executive officer of Polymath, a securities token platform.
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The result of seven years of work by a polymath Belgian architect named Kwinten Crauwels, Musicmap is almost overwhelming in its comprehensiveness.
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Rudofsky, a professional architect and polymath, found the manner in which Western culture dictated fashion to be utterly absurd, bordering on pathological.
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According to the filing, Jawbone Health is backed by SignalFire and Refactor Capital in the Bay Area, and Polymath Ventures in Dubai.
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I can't think of another underground DJ so comfortable in the fashion world, but then Dijon is a polymath, and a collector.
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This season, the 24-year-old polymath is back, now as a composer with a much larger platform: the New York Philharmonic.
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The 70 calligraphers include the polymath and type designer Hermann Zapf (1918-2015); he learned calligraphy from manuals by Johnston and Koch.
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A great preponderance of these extant and neglected notions had been proposed or refined by a peripatetic English polymath named Geoffrey Hinton.
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"He is something of a polymath," said Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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He is a proud polymath: he told me that he has given lectures in Mandarin, and he is fond of quoting Tennyson.
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In vast quantities it has been remainderedLike a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized Behind his wit lurked a polymath.
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But he was also clearly a genius, a polymath who knew everything from Darwin to ferns to minerals and elements and literature.
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Pliny the Elder, born around A.D. 24, was a polymath, the sort of person who rarely slept and could never sit still.
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To get help making sense of all these upheavals and tragedies, I reached out to Harvard psychology professor and polymath Steven Pinker.
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Frank Ocean has been spotted wearing a very sleek silver number by polymath designer Kia Utzon-Frank, which I am very much into.
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Sir William, a renowned polymath and doctor, controversially advocated interracial coupling, arguing that it encouraged diversity of thought and the progression of society.
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Described as a polymath by Hans Ulrich Obrist in the exhibition's catalogue, Etel Adnan certainly seems to be a woman of many talents.
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I rate it: like the polymath she is, Dijon's always got one eye focussed on the present, and one darting around the side.
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It was the library of a pop polymath, someone who had kept his books from film school and, against trend, added to them.
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Taken together, these essays draw a picture of a cheerful polymath thoroughly enjoying even those conversations that he later pretends to find tiresome.
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A self-styled polymath, Barr has strong opinions on issues ranging from legal arcana to the proper mustard to apply to a sandwich.
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A polymath who, as a photographer, created a major book of pictures of the Lascaux cave paintings, Ruspoli also made playful documentary shorts.
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If you're a polymath or have a short attention span — me being the latter of the two — you can get to work on anything.
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The first aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by a French photographer and polymath named Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who went by the pseudonym Nadar.
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Profile in Style The musical polymath talks about his (several) other passions, his unintentional signature look and what obscure music genre he's collecting now.
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After announcing the project earlier this summer, musical polymath Ty Dolla $ign has now confirmed details of his second studio album, Beach House 3.
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Crichton was a polymath, and he understood on a sort of breathtaking level the technologies that were emerging and where they might take us.
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Feature The polymath musician is a whole new model of artist, daubing his signature sensibility over music, film, dance and everything else he touches.
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ART AND MUSEUMS The paintings of this Italian polymath have long been overshadowed by the brilliant work of his older brother, Giorgio de Chirico.
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When they called him a polymath, a term he loathed, they really meant he was a jack of all trades and master of none.
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He was unusual in being interested in so many things, in a profound way — a polymath who knew a tremendous amount about many subjects.
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He was, famously, a polymath, steeped in philosophy and literature, who once held his own at a dinner party with a scholar of Chinese art.
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Wilfredo Pareto, a great Italian polymath, argued that effective leaders fall into two categories: lions, who rely on strength, and foxes, who rely on cunning.
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Then, at the 2003 conference, Geoffrey Hinton, a British polymath, and a cabal of AI researchers founded the Neural Computation & Adaptive Perception (NCAP) working group.
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Related: Your Horoscope is Horrifying Thanks to These Illustrated Zodiac Nightmares Tarot Cards Come Alive in the Streets of Haiti Meet Tynan DeLong, Comedic Polymath
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Dom Prokop Diviš, a Czech polymath born on this day in 1698, enjoyed shocking people in both the literal and figurative sense of the word.
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A largely ambient project from Maryland polymath Sam Ray, each release is like an emotional scrapbook made up of agile electronics, warm textures and found samples.
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Mr. Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who completed his studies at Yale medical school but never practiced medicine and later became a concert pianist.
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Hidden under a veil of atmospheric haze, Titan has been the source of intense curiosity since its discovery by the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens in 255.
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Coinbase, Circle, Polymath, Robinhood and other newer players are better suited to harnessing the stepchange elements of security tokens — particularly asset interoperability and imaginative security design.
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When novelist, warrior-historian, journalist, filmmaker and all around polymath Jim Webb (D-Va.) left the Senate in 22019, I was sad to see him go.
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A seminal thinker in this new "capitalization" of land—and other things—was the polymath William Petty, a physician, political economist, and cartographer, born in 1623.
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" Morrow highlights the pop polymath who loved Carla Thomas's "B-A-B-Y," Skeeter Davis's "Let Me Get Close to You," and Ronny & the Daytonas' "GTO.
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It's a bit of a strange reference for a revenge-obsessed polymath, but he's said as much in interviews, calling the bearded Wisconsinite his favorite musician.
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The musical polymath will draw on her roots in folk and opera to write a piece based on the autobiography of an enslaved African-Muslim man.
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A remarkable musical polymath and conservationist of beatnik culture, he has played at the club monthly for 25400 years and has come to epitomize its essence.
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The ingenious improvisations of a restless polymath and this stark memento mori by a disturbed visionary form a perfect pair of bookends for the Italian Renaissance.
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Mr. Brown, a Southern polymath with a pilot's license, a gun license and a host of vocations, has always been a welcome presence in food television.
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Baldwin is a photographer and self-described polymath; Bernard, or Westside Ty as he's known in music circles, is the tour DJ for rapper Vince Staples.
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In her second poetry collection, the Chicago polymath (she's a professor, essayist, and comic book author) grapples with the consequences of that deadly "Red Summer" in verse.
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While Hall loved engineering, he wasn't much of a businessman; his history as a polymath would rival Elon Musk, but he lacked Musk's skills as a pitchman.
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Return of the Obra Dinn is the product of a polymath named Lucas Pope, the creator of the ruthlessly incisive and award-winning immigration simulator Papers, Please.
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Amazing polymath-acrobat that he is, lifelong whiz kid, I just don't think Baker would get neurological permission to type out some of those Jack Reacher sentences.
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Related: Undressed: A Titillating Exhibition on the History of Underwear Meet the Creative Polymath Turning Philosophers into Fighting Games Someone Built a Computer Made of Punching Bags
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Oh, and last night, all-round creative polymath FKA Twigs decided to host a five-hour dance class for the residents of Baltimore, completely free of charge.
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As a polymath and much celebrated writer, fluent in Dutch and well-travelled in Asia, Buruma seemed to bring to the journal the cosmopolitan pedigree it valued.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the intellectual polymath who represented New York in the United States Senate for twenty-four years, developed a well-founded skepticism toward government secrecy.
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With all its erratic punctuation and grammatical incoherence, its non sequiturs and obscure historical references, it appears to have been written by a pacifist polymath gone amok.
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The 13th century Persian polymath Zakarya Qazvini also included hemp in illustrated botanical summaries (cannabis is depicted in the top panel, with cauliflower and southernwood beneath it).
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Some worked from Europe, like the Russian polymath Léon Bakst, who created a black fabric gridded with flower garlands for the Robinson Silk Company in New York.
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It's no wonder, really, that they caught the eye of musical polymath Dean Blunt, who brought them in to work on his 2018 release Soul On Fire.
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On one other point fans and critics alike can agree: At 21999, the musical polymath, film star and stage stud is currently the hottest act in show business.
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Polymath began about 10 years ago when Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, wanted to find a way to facilitate massive online collaborations in mathematics.
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A native Moroccan, he's a polymath in black leather (complete with DOOM patch) who's played in various metal (including Morocco's first metal band, Immortal Spirit) and indie outfits.
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He is a polymath who studied at Eton and Oxford, and was a prolific journalist and author who wrote a well-regarded book on his hero Winston Churchill.
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The webcomic, created by game designer, author of Videogames for Humans, and all-round creative polymath Merritt Kopas, takes the experience of "growing up internet" as its theme.
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Velour is an artistic polymath—she holds a Masters from the Center for Cartoon Studies, and spent a year studying LGBT art in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar.
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And he would live to see an M.R.I. machine, invented by yet another brilliant polymath, Dr. Raymond Damadian, whose family had fled the Armenian genocide for New York.
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Listening to Jack White Thanks to Alec Wilkinson for his Profile of Jack White, the obsessive restorer, rehabilitator, and all-around antiquarian chameleon dandy ("The Polymath," March 13th).
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Along the way, the manuscript paused with early cryptologists like the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, who claimed to have decoded the Egyptian hieroglyphs (he hadn't), but it remained unsolved.
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De Grey pitched the problem of finding the minimal five-color graph to Terence Tao, a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a potential Polymath problem.
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The Chinese electronics polymath highlighted its plans for EcoCity back in October, during its ambitious stateside debut, but a number of recent financial setbacks may have changed those plans.
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Hip-hop polymath Ty Dolla $ign's long-awaited second studio album, Beach House 3, is out October 27, easing us all into the colder months with some nautical optimism.
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The Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan (whom The New York Times's Jon Caramanica called "an easeful polymath who manages to make big moments feel intimate") is the musical guest.
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JON PARELES Childish Gambino, the novelty rap-turned-soul rewind project of the polymath Donald Glover, was this year's left-field nominee for album and record of the year.
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" His family's statement said: "His work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programmes, poems and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath.
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"His work with Monty Python, his books, films, television programs, poems and other work will live on forever, a fitting legacy to a true polymath," his family's statement said.
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Give yourself thirty minutes a day five days a week and you could be well on your way to being a polymath by picking up one of these five skills.
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In 1801 the genius polymath Thomas Young determined that not only is light composed of waves (traveling in a "luminiferous ether" that wasn't actually a thing, but stick with him).
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Not everyone longs to be a polymath, but everyone who does is a philomath—someone who loves knowledge qua knowledge, who finds it moving, joyful, comforting, fun, startling, awe-inspiring.
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He is a prolific contemporary-media polymath, a magazine contributor and a skillful tweeter, a writer of fiction and a collaborator with performers like Questlove, Brian Wilson and George Clinton.
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"You can program a token, but a static share certificate just sits there and collects dust," said Trevor Koverko, CEO of Polymath, a platform that helps people launch securities tokens.
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In an adjacent room at the museum, another monumental map is on display: the Flemish Jesuit scholar and polymath Ferdinand Verbiest's "A Complete Map of the World," printed in 1674.
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These include Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, videomaker Diana Thater, painter Toba Khedoori, Canadian polymath genius Stan Douglas, sculptor Jason Rhoades, and Austrian sculptor Franz West, who had the inaugural exhibition.
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But the really enviable type is the "polymath," who possesses deep expertise in one or more core areas but also knows the "adjacent stuff" in dozens of other technological domains.
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Given the fandom that surrounds the creative polymath Virgil Abloh, it felt fitting that he held his Off-White show in an entertainment venue — and not for the first time.
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He teamed up with his friend and colleague Iben Browning, a polymath inventor, aeronautical engineer, and biophysicist, and together they created what would become known as the n-tuple method.
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The piece plays with the life and work of Athanasius Kircher, the 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath whose dozens of books included studies on Egypt, China, geology and medicine.
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Mr. Sivan — born in South Africa, and raised in Australia — may well be the prototype for tomorrow's global pop star, an easeful polymath who manages to make big moments feel intimate.
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Ms. Alonzo is a polymath who graduated from high school early and spent ages 16 to 24 enrolling at community colleges around Los Angeles, learning and dabbling without earning a degree.
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He takes us on a hunt for invisible dragons with the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher and to a performance of "The Tempest" starring an aging William Shakespeare who forgets his lines.
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Amid recent rumors of SoundCloud's imminent end—since denied by the company's founder—UK polymath Paul Woolford has taken to the music streaming platform to share several hours of unreleased material.
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Steve Lacy's "4Real," which the polymath guitarist released on SoundCloud earlier this month, is a stew of delicious production; it's got gushing bass, teenage quirk, and the sweet urgency of young love.
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That's a minor detail, yes, but it represents a larger point: behind the innumerable Ripley memes and feminist tributes to her iconic character from the Alien franchise, Weaver is a cinematic polymath.
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Naturally, it also shows off the polymath abilities of Trudeau, a Renaissance man whose personal traits seem all the more appealing to many Americans given the dire state of the 2016 election.
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John T. Noonan Jr., a federal judge and polymath who defied ideological pigeonholing on profound issues like assisted suicide, the death penalty, civil liberties and illegal immigration, died Monday in Berkeley, Calif.
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A patriot and a polymath, Snodgrass seems to believe that he can convince many other conservatives to break with Trump by patiently explaining how he has traduced traditional constitutional and moral principles.
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Although Chase is joined by the polymath composer Tyshawn Sorey for performances of his "Bertha's Lair," revised after its premiere earlier in this series, the new pieces here are all by women.
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Savinio was an Italian artist born, like his brother, in Greece, whose life's work falls into the tradition of the polymath, a line stretching from Leonardo da Vinci to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Like his brother Mike Kinsella (Owen, Owls, American Football) and cousin Nate (Birthmark, American Football, Joan of Arc), Tim is a restless creative polymath whose narrative voice threads everything he touches together.
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In one of history's trademark plot twists, the famous polymath Carl Friedrich Gauss, who was then only 24 years old, stepped up to the plate to figure out where Ceres was headed next.
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Another report by polymath/physicist/cookbook author Nathan Myhrvold (this guy) finds that many of the asteroid records taken by NASA's Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope could be flawed.
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Applying Darwin's principles of natural selection to human societies, Darwin's cousin and scientific polymath Sir Francis Galton theorized that human evolution would regress if societies prevented their weakest members from being selected out.
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A polymath who discovered and organized the tiniest building blocks of matter and went on to study the most complex systems in the universe, Gell-Mann died Friday at the age of 89.
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Crypto companies like Polymath and tZERO have already debuted dedicated platforms for security tokens, and all signs indicate announcements from Circle and Coinbase unveiling their own tokenized asset exchanges are not far behind.
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But the Indonesian artist and polymath Eko Nugroho will be working on his own street-inspired mural in front of visitors at the Asia Society Museum for three days, starting Saturday, Jan. 7.
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Polymath Charles Babbage designed his analytical engine, the precursor to digital computers, after observing the mechanical operations of Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom, a device weavers used to make intricate patterns like brocades or damask.
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An ambitious polymath who composed music, wrote verse and corresponded with Voltaire, she built Bayreuth's intimate yet elaborate Margravial Opera House, one of the most outstanding surviving examples of Baroque theater architecture in Europe.
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Its highlight is a series of drawings and photographs by Frederick Kiesler, the Austrian-American polymath whose Endless House — never completed — fused fine art, architecture, furniture and lighting design into a bulbous, unstable whole.
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Watch it here, and if you're still craving more celebrity ASMR content—it may not shock you to learn that the surrealist polymath Tierra Whack is pretty damn good at this sorta thing too.
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Mr. Papinchak and his wife, Heather, also own two nearby homes by a Wright disciple, Peter Berndtson, and have opened all of them up — under the name Polymath Park — for overnight stays and tours.
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The library has acquired the archive of Michael Holman, a hip-hop polymath who since the late 1970s has been a downtown dance impresario, filmmaker and journalist, as well as a musician and choreographer.
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In fact, it leads to the school's historic women's library and is one of many poetic details dating from a nine-year (1932-41) building project overseen by the 20th-century polymath Gio Ponti.
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Our popular understanding of a "mob" is more than a century old, tracing back to an 1895 book called "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind," by the French polymath Gustave Le Bon.
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But the installation was also laced with cryptic references to historical figures — the Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the Eastern-European mystic G.I. Gurdjieff, the exiled Korean composer Isang Yun — and to political events.
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In March, the polymath artist and musician David Byrne wrote a cover story on a man he admires: the musician and poet Benjamin Clementine, whose rags-to-riches story is the stuff of legend.
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He seems to reference Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti, who in his treatise on perspective, Della Pittura ("On Painting"), defined painting as an open window, though Leufert rejected single-point perspective, implicit in Alberti's concept.
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In the late 19th century, it was the Victorian polymath and notorious eugenicist Sir Francis Galton who systematized the science of fingerprints to identify individuals — an approach which would then be applied to identify criminals.
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Presented alongside Vladimir Nabokov's famous scientific, carefully annotated and illustrated studies of butterflies are gleaming stones collected by French polymath Roger Caillois, some illuminated on light tables, that convey the diverse beauty of our environments.
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The musical polymath Rhiannon Giddens has mined African-American folk traditions and the deep and varied roots of old-time music as a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and a successful solo artist.
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And you can receive it as a toothsome scrapbook of a moment in time — a future Oscar winner, Chris Menges ("The Killing Fields"), shot the film, and the reggae polymath Dennis Bovell did the music.
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The only point of opening an essay collection is to spend some time with an interesting mind, and Joshua Cohen — novelist, journalist, critic; prodigy, polyglot, polymath — has one of the most interesting minds in circulation.
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In 1990, when I was in college, I spoke on the phone to the Russian-born musical polymath Nicolas Slonimsky, who recalled walking the streets of Petrograd on the first day of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Mr. Bennington was a rock music polymath, so on later albums, as the group emphasized electronic music and even a touch of new wave, Mr. Bennington was able to sound more or less at home.
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Dr. NakaMats is an eccentric Japanese inventor and self-professed polymath whose biggest single claim to fame is for licensing the floppy disk to IBM corporation in the 1970s (though IBM disputes details of the story).
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As befits such a status-obsessed parvenu, Monsieur Jourdain has arrived in style, ushered along by the energetic director Denis Podalydès, a popular polymath in France who also writes and acts on both screen and stage.
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The vessel's actual name is the Akademik Lomonosov (after the Russian polymath who discovered the atmosphere of Venus) and it doesn't contain its own propulsion system, so the nuclear barge must be towed by smaller boats.
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Last night, Donald Glover performed his new single "This Is America" midway through a successful appearance on Saturday Night Live (where, graduating from fledgling to fully-formed polymath, he did double-duty as host and musical guest).
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What I've done since is take a very modern, polymath path, currently serving in the happiest job I have ever had as a business owner (like my mother) and academic, and always seeking the next newest adventure.
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While Curie's life as a scientific pioneer in early twentieth century France was not very much like the three African-American mathematicians of Hidden Figures, nor the polymath Alan Turing, you wouldn't know that from their biopics.
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But as much as I generally prefer the harpsichord in such repertory, it sent me back to a performance that proved formative for me years ago, an Audiofon recording by the pianist and polymath David Bar-Ilan.
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De Galbert, a 21912-year-old art collector, polymath, and bon-vivant, is one of the heirs of the French retailer Carrefour Group, where he worked for a while before dedicating all his time and money to art.
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Everything Vilkacis does retains an unimpeachable level of quality; as the solo project of prolific polymath M. Rekevics (who also shares his talents with Fell Voices, Vanum, Yellow Eyes, Vorde, and many more), that's unsurprising, but always welcome.
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McLemore is a polymath of extraordinary mathematical and artisanal ability; he has not only constructed this remarkable maze, but also teaches trigonometry to the hired hands on his land, and heals antique clocks that nobody else can repair.
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The basic income, or "social credit", put forward in the 1920s by C.H. Douglas, a British polymath, was born of the worry that technology was opening up a gap between total output and the income earned by workers.
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Ms. Bernstein was a polymath who brought her broad knowledge to bear on an array of causes during her time at the Ford Foundation, where she worked from 1983 until 2010, with a break in the early 1990s.
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And the massive HangarBicocca presented a devastating exhibition of the Polish polymath Mirosław Bałka, whose whirring fans, hallways slicked with soap, and pumps of coal-black water circled around, but never disclosed, the horrors of the Holocaust. 20163.
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These idiosyncratic imaginings encompass a compact overview of Carrà's Metaphysical output, the movement's most salient body of work other than that of de Chirico and his polymath brother, Alberto Savinio, the subject of last season's exhibition at CIMA.
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Samuel Hahnemann, an 18th-century physician described by Ernst as a "deeply religious and spiritual man as well as an eccentric, innovator, maverick, and polymath," first published a new school of medical thought that he named homeopathy in 1790.
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Mr. Jafa (pronounced JAY-fa) is a polymath known as a filmmaker, cinematographer and theorist of black culture, specifically of the black body as both a creative force (especially in music and dance) and an object of white violence.
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But when Ms. Mutter and her longtime chamber music partner, the pianist Lambert Orkis, took to the stage at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, the specter most strongly felt was that of André Previn, the conductor, composer and musical polymath.
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Before marrying Jean-Pierre Cavassoni, she had high-profile dalliances of her own, with Mick Jagger and the punk polymath Malcolm McLaren, who said "'I love you, Natasha, because you take the cobwebs out of my brain,'" she recalled.
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Where the Morgan excels particularly is in shows of drawings, and in its intimate "Cube" gallery, more than two dozen sheets by Guercino, the 17th-century Italian polymath, reveal the vigor and experimentation that went into his Baroque altarpieces.
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A self-taught polymath whose name appears on over 370 stores around the world, Mr. Smith spoke by telephone on subjects ranging from the perils of the high street to finding fashion cues in the frescoes of Fra Angelico.
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Next I posted "Ceylon," a 1950 book of gauzy homoerotic black-and-white photographs by Lionel Wendt, a pianist and polymath Pablo Neruda deemed the pivotal figure in the evolution of national identity in postcolonial Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
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Long before this, British polymath John Michell predicted the existence of "dark stars" so massive or so compressed that they could possess gravitational pulls so strong not even light could escape; black holes didn't get their universal name until 1967.
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Justin Trudeau may be, as some have theorized, an elaborate high-level project by Canada to troll the U.S. Or he may be a science project, created in a lab by scientists to seek the most polymath world leader possible.
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Her full list of credits on the previous "Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream" video included writing, directing, editing, coloring, and art direction, so it's definitively clear at this point that being a polymath is second nature for Grimes.
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What's happening here is pretty amazing JackJanuary 27, 2016 Cats, naturally: mang's best friend (Vine by polymath) JackJanuary 22, 2016 So, if Banks' accusation is true, it would seem that Dorsey did, indeed, cheat the rapper out of a tweet.
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Many of the characters are barely known outside scholarly circles, and they are all sketched in as personalities, beginning with the seventeenth-century Dutch polymath Hugo Grotius, who is said to have been the most insufferable pedant of his day.
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Ghosts of Times Square (Saturday) Former figures of New York theater — like the performance polymath George M. Cohan, Bob Fosse and a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies — are the highlights of this walking tour that doubles as a Broadway history lesson.
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Webb, former Democratic senator from Virginia, former secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, Appalachian polymath, novelist, historian and war hero of the first rank, would well have added character and imagination to the ongoing discussion in the Democratic primary.
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Working with the mathematician and fellow-polymath Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Diderot seeded the text with a pattern of often obscure renvois , cross-references, designed to show that one subject of study could lead to another in a surprising way.
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ALAN CUMMING (Wednesday) This performance polymath discusses his whimsical new book of photographs and essays, "You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures," in the latest installment of the New York Public Library's Live From the NYPL series.
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Related: Adam Green's Psychedelic 'Aladdin' Is a Handmade Labor of Love The Creators of 'Rick and Morty' Told Us the Secret to Comedy A Look Inside Brooklyn's First All-Day Alt-Comedy Fest Meet Tynan DeLong, Comedy Polymath | Not Dead Yet
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The gauchos are few — iconoclasts like himself, or the occasional Joyce fanatic like Jorn Barger, a polymath who in the earliest days of the internet wrote a lot of brilliant Joyce analysis on his weblog (a word he also coined).
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PARIS — Despite the traditional August lull and the terrorist attacks in Barcelona, the death of Jerry Lewis has been big news here in France, where the American actor-writer-director-producer was revered as an outstanding artist, and a polymath auteur.
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Things came easily to him — friends remembered him as a polymath who could draw as well as he could design, who could dance and play the cello — and he felt more advanced than the rest of the students in his class.
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Pete's father, Joe, born and raised on the island of Malta, was an academic as well; a larger-than-life Notre Dame professor, a polymath equally able to discuss the works of Marxist scholar Antonio Gramsci and English soccer clubs.
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The last season left the cast — teen polymath Alex Wilder, power-goth Nico Minoru, reformed jock Chase Stein, dinosaur owner / intersectional feminist Gertrude Yorkes, super-strong kid sister Molly Hayes, and secret alien Karolina Dean — split up and pretty much beat.
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Corralling together a handful of the undergrounds greatest weirdos—like the teenaged Delaware polymath Lil West, Dark World's steely DJ Lucas, and a host of others—Aaron and Judge made the whole tape in a day, a testament to the power of spontaneity.
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But he is also no doubt today one of the world's best-known theoretical physicists precisely because, like Oppenheimer, he has always been a polymath, a literary man of science who could explain the physical world to us in plain old English.
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The Russian-born German polymath (1861-1937) was a prolific novelist, an essayist whose work earned the praise of Sigmund Freud, one of the first practicing psychoanalysts, and a pioneer of the feminist movement in her writings on women and sexual pleasure.
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Alexander has developed a reputation as a kind of OL polymath—enough so that some publisher made a gamble that a book filled with tips about how to get a good performance out of players would sell enough to make them money.
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Because Virgos are known as "the most fastidious sign," which "reads the fine print and hones in on small details," Broadly has asked this detail-oriented polymath about how to organize the goings-on of the slightly messier signs (read: every other sign).
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George Steiner, a literary polymath and man of letters whose voluminous criticism often dealt with the paradox of literature's moral power and its impotence in the face of an event like the Holocaust, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, England.
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He recently turned to the world of Harry Potter for a new crab species (Harryplax severus), and in naming others — there have been 30 or so — he has drawn inspiration from mentors and personal heroes like the Filipino nationalist and polymath José Rizal.
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Ettore Sottsass, for example, the Milan-based polymath who later became famous as the progenitor of Memphis design, contributed a residential interior consisting of a set of nearly identical multipurpose "containers" that satisfied all possible household needs and could be endlessly moved around.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Artworld polymath Greg Allen has made an odd, ritualistic, perhaps metaphorical memorial by creating a digitized work that elaborates on another piece of art, one originally concocted by Félix González-Torres, "Untitled (Death by Gun)" (1990).
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Shot and directed by LA polymath Gus Black—who, says Clark, was "dope to work with"—the video places Clark and his band at the heart of a night out, trying to focus in on the before, during and after through the sex and silhouettes.
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" After acknowledging that the Palestinian-Manhattanite polymath "had asked a burning but pertinent question: the relationship between knowledge and power in the Orient," the narrator goes on to say, "I had no opinion, and I still don't, I think; Edward Said was an excellent pianist.
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In Frank Lloyd Wright's circular white temple, the art of this Swiss polymath — above all his emaciated humans in bronze or plaster, but also his earlier Surrealist compositions and his ghostly painted portraits in mucky grays and browns — look even more austere than usual.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Here—gleefully roasting the idiocies of the American Sixties to a turn—are more Feiffers than have ever been discovered together in one spot before!" read a magazine ad for Feiffer's Album, a 1963 book by polymath Jules Feiffer.
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My grandfather, in particular, was a man whom everyone knew and loved: The neighborhood polymath, he could carpenter a dining room table in a matter of weeks, needed only a few days to make a pair of shoes for a Communion, and read palms over dinner.
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The Vermont Senator has garnered praise from San Francisco producer Bassnectar, been championed by Jersey club queen UNIIQU3 and LCD Soundsystem's Nancy Whang in the form of performances at benefit rallies, and received support on Twitter from NYC polymath Juliana Huxtable and Berlin producer Laurel Halo.
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"Such intervention will further squeeze the already heated South Korean market, further drive up spreads to other markets, and push order flow outside the country," said Trevor Koverko, chief executive officer of Polymath, whose platform makes it easier for start-up companies to launch security tokens.
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My hunch was confirmed later that year, at a tech conference in Oslo, when Dame Marina Warner, the visionary polymath and today the president of the Royal Society of Literature, fielded a disturbing question about pornography from the illustrious philosopher and early Edge member John Searle.
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" Glover, the restless polymath who launched his career as a writer on the TV show "30 Rock" and eventually made a fitful migration to the world of hip-hop, was expressing a timeworn sentiment that falls into the same category as "I don't even own a television.
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The middle concert has no new work, but begins with a mid-twentieth-century classic, "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee," by Gunther Schuller, a brilliant musical polymath who tried to merge the best of the Germanic tradition with the liberating force of American jazz.
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One is Al-Jazari (1136-1206), the Arab polymath and mechanical engineer whose brilliant Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, chronicling (and giving instructions for) his many inventions ranging from water-pumping systems to functional candle clocks, predated Leonardo da Vinci by almost 300 years.
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He is something of a creative polymath—he founded Chunklet magazine (a cult favorite that had a VICE column years ago), played in a touring band, and has worked as a designer for two-plus decades—and he prefers to do stuff as fast as possible.
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As well as arguing for the futility of attempts to control language, Mr Greene explores efforts to create more logical systems, from the 17th-century polymath John Wilkins to the 1950s creation Loglan, devised to test the hypothesis that a more logical language would facilitate more logical thought processes.
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But Mr. Oluo, a Seattle-based polymath of the performing arts (writer, composer, comedian, trumpeter, pianist, etc.), manages to expand the format to dizzying proportions, with a little help from friends who include more than a dozen talented musicians and a glamorous vocalist (the bearded, gown-wearing okanomodé).
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Mr Di Maio this month offered his movement's support to the gilets jaunes, prompting an indignant response from Paris At least the two countries' shared cultural heritage should help, especially since this is the quincentenary of the death in France of the great Italian polymath, Leonardo da Vinci.
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The series, which "aims to teach showmanship, connect young artists, and inspire creativity within the next wave of Chicago youth," is always open to anyone with a high school ID. Last night, the teens were treated to a surprise performance from Atlanta creator and modern polymath Donald Glover.
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A gay polymath bastard, born out of wedlock to Piero da Vinci, a notary, and a peasant woman known only as Caterina, and raised with no formal schooling, Leonardo would have found a deep and immediate connection to Jerome's ostracism at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
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Wolf's debacle raises a challenge to that perspective, though, posing the question: When is a writer erudite, a renaissance person, a polymath—and when are they merely trespassing superficially into areas of knowledge they haven't mastered, imposing their own prejudices or yanking cherry-picked tidbits out of context?
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CreditCreditBryan Derballa for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — The debut season of "Atlanta," the FX series created by the polymath Donald Glover, will probably be remembered for its most ambitious, inexplicable gags: an athlete's invisible car; a mischievous child in whiteface; a black man playing Justin Bieber.
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Among them are Ernie (Brent Jennings), a plumbing-supply salesman hoping for one last shot to make his mark; Connie (Linda Emond), Ernie's sometime lover and a veteran local reporter whose newspaper is "pivoting to video"; and Blaise (David Pasquesi), an eccentric polymath who runs a marijuana dispensary.
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"I'm not a perfectionist," Nacho Alegre, the Barcelonese polymath — magazine editor, photographer, bar owner, creative director — said recently, driving past pig farms and citrus trees to his home in La Tallada d'Empordà, a medieval village in the Girona province of Catalonia, an hour and a half northeast from Barcelona.
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Rhiannon Giddens, the singer, songwriter, banjo player and musical polymath, will be featured in a Perspectives series in which she will trace the connections between popular and classical songs, team up with other banjo players to explore the experience of African-American women and delve into the complicated history of minstrelsy.
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Mukherjee spent her childhood between the rustic landscape of Santiniketan where her father, the legendary scholar-artist Benode Behari Mukherjee, taught at Visva Bharati University (the brainchild of polymath Rabindranath Tagore), and the foothills of the Himalayas in Dehradun, where her mother, Leela, also an artist, taught at an all-girls' school.
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Beyond the zealotry and fanaticism of the ISIS fanboys, however, is an intellectual lineage that Wood traces back to the thirteenth-century polymath and iconoclast Ibn Taymiyyah, as well as his seventeenth-century student Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who popularized the idea that Muslims could apostatize other Muslims and kill them for sinning.
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There she worked as a feature writer for the Office of War Information and the State Department before becoming a freelance journalist and striving polymath, taking classes at Columbia University's School of General Studies while publishing features about New York City's residential and commercial life in the Herald Tribune, Vogue, and Architectural Forum.
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Courtesy the Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm The spell broke in 1908, with a visit to her Stockholm studio from Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian polymath whose "spiritual science," as he termed it, evolved from Theosophy and other mystic tendencies of the time into programs for reform in various fields, education among them.
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The Vietnam-born, Singapore-based polymath started her career in fashion, studying at Goldsmiths, University of London, and then moved into fine arts, exhibiting her heavily layered abstract paintings at gallery shows and art fairs throughout Asia before launching her eponymous line of scents (available in the U.S. at Barneys) last fall.
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For American film, especially, it was a decade of creative upheaval and ferment; when leading men weren't just in the traditional good-looking guy mode, such as Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood, but also regular-looking guys with strong-if-quirky personalities, such as Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and a bespectacled polymath named Woody Allen.
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Harbor will have to compete with the other blockchain-for-securities startups like Polymath, which runs decentralized and trustless infrastrucutre to the point that a source tells me you have to hope strangers want their deposit back enough not to screw you on legal compliance, and tZERO, which is building its own full-stack compliance system.
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We meet the philosopher (and retired soldier) René Descartes, the mage and proto-scientist John Dee, the essayist Michel Montaigne, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, the excommunicated Jewish philosopher Baruch de Spinoza, the encyclopedist Pierre Bayle, and the great painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who both depicted and embodied the new human landscape of Dutch economic transformation.
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But, as is so often the case with this polymath of anarcho-punk, the conversation strayed to topics as diverse as Trump being the obvious organic antithesis to the Obama presidency, Japanther's links to the resurgent Black Panther movement, how diet has dulled our urge to protest, and that time he met John Lennon on Ready Steady Go!
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The woozy beat and chopped-and-screwed vocals of "Melrose" is vintage Huntsville, but the hook ("Ridin' down Melrose, backseat full of hoes") is all LA. There's a hook from Ty Dolla $ign, LA's reigning R&B polymath, on the sun-drenched "Never Been Scared," but it follows "Plenty Cake," which features Jackie's fellow Alabama ambassador Rich Boy.
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Last night, Chance the Rapper, also known as one of the greatest living breathing rappers that exists on earth right now, showed up to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside musical polymath Skrillex and Florida band Hundred Waters to perform their remixed version of the band's track "Show Me Love," which was released earlier this year.
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Fans of deep house shouldn't miss a two-hour set from headlining NYC veteran Anthony Parasole, but it's a fitting place to camp for the evening thanks to other draws like Berlin's techno polymath Stefan Goldmann (author of the Berghain book Art in the Club), a live set from darkwave experimentalist Marie Davidson, and self-proclaimed "doom-folk" producer Perera Elsewhere.
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UK polymath, producer and composer, Floating Points, just shared a first listen from his forthcoming Kuiper EP. Combining a deeply cinematic melodic sense with krautrock and electronic jazz impulses, the release's title track finds Sam Shepherd bringing his band to the studio with an ambitious, cosmically-inclined spirit, making good on the promise demonstrated on the previously released live video rendition.
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A more accurate description would be a brilliant, highly sensitive artist with a strong conceptual bent, Buddhist inclinations, real wisdom, serious painterly chops, and an extraordinary understanding of and feeling for color; a polymath who realized her ideas concretely and sensually not only in paintings (including monochromes) but also in photographs, drawings, sculptures, text-based works, creative writing, experimental films, and installations.
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League of Professional Theater Women: Oral History Project (Monday) This series, which in the past has hosted women like Tyne Daly and Patti LuPone, continues with Carmen de Lavallade, the 85-year-old actress and dancer who performed in works created for her by choreographers like Agnes de Mille; Alvin Ailey; and her husband, the theatrical polymath Geoffrey Holder, who died in 2014.
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ON THE WEST COAST, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had something of a banner year with an exhibition of Catherine Opie's "O Project," portraits that document the love and dignity of people who defy narrow definitions of sexual normalcy; an exhaustive retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe (in collaboration with the Getty) and a survey of the horror movie polymath Guillermo del Toro.
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" Gaius Plinius Secundus, born around 23 A.D., was a polymath who believed that you could cure a cold by kissing the hairy muzzle of a mouse, that a pregnant woman who eats salty food will give birth to a child without fingernails and that "there is no greater cause for the destruction of morals and rise of luxury than shellfish.
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Photo by the LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images It's now been a little over a week since a jealous God rescinded Prince Rogers Nelson, universally beloved musical polymath and lyricist, patron saint of ectomorphic sexuality, human synecdoche of the color purple, noted keytarist (he held a US patent on the instrument) and the last human being to be given a pass for replacing words with numbers.
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Come for coffee and tea; stay for DJ sets by (F)empower and Vinyl Social Club, SUBPAC's Bass Sound Bath Meditation by DJ Earl, and talks with artists and authors Dana Goldstein, Mwanel Pierre-Louis, Jacob Katel, and the radio station HalfMoon BK. Analogue, the aforementioned polymath, will debut a performance art piece at the end of the weekend (December 9th), featuring art direction by Kristabel Delgado.
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One of the most influential shows ever organized by MoCC was the 2010 exhibition Gestures of Resistance, curated by Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton, which featured works by Sara Black and John Preus, Anthea Black, Carole Lung, AKA Frau Fiber, Mung Lar Lam, Cat Mazza of Nike Blanket Petition fame, Iraq War Veteran and ceramic artist Ehren Tool, and the artistic polymath and potter Theaster Gates.
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The startup's founder and CEO, American-born Roland Lamb, is probably best described as a polymath, someone who comes across less as a geeky and nervous or (at the other end) ultra-smooth-talking startup founder, and more like a calm-voiced thinker who has come out to talk to you in a break between reading and writing about the nature of music and teaching a small philosophy seminar.
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The photographer François Halard trains his camera on the layered displays of artifacts and photographs in his home in Arles and places four of these images in close quarters with African sculptures and delicate ceramic bowls, one from East Persia dating to around 1000 AD. The least familiar material may be that of the dealer Jason Jacques: gleaming vases by the polymath artist Galileo Chini, and the luxurious enameled boxes of the metalsmith Alfred Daguet.
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In escalating degrees of weirdness, 2017 also offered a retrospective of John D. Graham's paintings at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, which traced the borderline-reactionary artistic journey of a man better known as the impresario of the Abstract Expressionist movement; and, at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in Soho, a selection of paintings by Giorgio de Chirico's polymath younger brother, Alberto Savinio, whose clashes of style within a single work made him a Postmodernist paragon and forebear.
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