I don't know...

The Krasnals. Whielki Krasnal "Nobel prize winner? Red communistic pig?
Wisława Szymborska", from "Great Poles". 2010. Oil on canvas.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."

Wisława Szymborska (b.1923)  Polish poet, essayist and translator awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Born to Learn

Born to Learn from Born to Learn on Vimeo.

Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn.

A good iDea?

Added On April 8, 2011

A school in Maine is buying iPads for students, but not everyone is happy. WGME reports.

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Process: Additive/Subtractive Drawing

“Still Green VIII” (charcoal, 2005) appears in “Variations on A Theme” at Pan American Art Gallery.

Drawing from life — and moving back and forth between mark-making and erasing — I first establish large shapes and prominent edges, then focus on discrete areas to develop the drawing in greater detail.

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China blasts 'maverick' artist Ai Weiwei after reported arrest

By the CNN Wire Staff

April 6, 2011 4:46 a.m. EDT

Ai Weiwei, shown in this file picture, has not been seen since Sunday when he was en route to Hong Kong.

(CNN) -- China's ruling Communist party unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on dissident artist Ai Weiwei -- and on the West for criticizing his apparent arrest.

Ai has not been seen since Sunday, when he and an assistant said on Twitter that they had been taken into custody en route to Hong Kong.

China broke its silence Wednesday with a pair of articles in a Communist party newspaper.

One Global Times piece said he had been "detained by police, according to overseas media reports."

The other article, an editorial, said Ai "has been close to the red line of Chinese law... as long as Ai Weiwei continuously marches forward, he will inevitably touch the red line one day."

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Julian Schnabel:Impacted by Art and Critics

What was the first work of ART that changed you?

Artist Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Title: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Date:1653
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 56 1/2 x 53 3/4 in.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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