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Talks
Separating fame from paint
Why celebrity artists reap greater rewards than creative ones – not just at Christie’s
23 Apr 2019
- by Wouter Boon
Ceci n’est pas un Duchamp
How the story around the most influential piece of art of the 20th century just got rewritten.
18 Jun 2018
- by Wouter Boon
Art with an extended arm
Why primates can’t use creativity to make art and why artificial intelligence can – in a few decades.
03 Oct 2017
- by Wouter Boon
Standing out from the crowd
How Dutch artist and inventor Daan Roosegaarde is reduced to a showman and a fraud in Dutch TV program College Tour - and why it left me puzzled
25 Feb 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Creative by influence
Researchers at Rutgers University create an algorithm that assesses a painting's originality by its influence on others
21 Jul 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The fragile nature of the muses
How Nick Cave poetically explained to MTV that his muse is not a horse and he himself not in a horse race when creating music
07 May 2015
- by Wouter Boon
Rembrandt’s innovations
Wouter Boon visited a lecture by Rembrandt specialist Gregor Weber and this is what he learned.
25 Mar 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The beauty of creativity
How our ‘aesthetic sensibility’ is naturally attracted to creative ideas
26 Aug 2014
- by Wouter Boon
Copying Malevich
Never judge a historical master from a contemporary viewpoint
24 Jan 2014
- by Wouter Boon
The New Rijksmuseum
How creativity and democracy are opposites in the creative process
20 Dec 2013
- by Wouter Boon