To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Being conscious of being
How physics, engineering and mathematics have transformed our understanding of brain function is enthrallingly explored in Models of the Mind, says ROX MIDDLETON
BRAIN POWER: Illustration for multimedia teaching projects by the Yale University School of Medicine
[Patrick J Lynch/Creative Commons]
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Models of the Mind
by Grace Lindsay
(Bloomsbury, £16.99)
LIVING in an age of materialism, finding the source of all experience within the wet, offal-like contents of our skulls is a core mystery.
Even those with a spiritual or dualist perspective concur that the phenomenon which gives us the means to experience everything else, located somewhere on the inside of the body, holds the key to life itself.
Models of the Mind by Grace Lindsay is an extremely thorough and wide-ranging introduction to how elegant maths and physics have contributed to our understanding of brain function at every level: from the chemicals and cells that live and die in our heads to the abstract network graphs that let us conceive of the generative effects of cell connections.
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