Episode 20

Episode 20: Jean-Michel Basquiat — Crowns, Cross-Outs, and Comets

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Let’s time-travel to downtown New York when boomboxes were heavy, hair was tall, and gallery openings were somehow both glamorous and sticky. Into this neon thicket rockets Jean-Michel Basquiat: poet with paint, DJ of symbols, and the kid who could turn an anatomy diagram into a thunderclap. Who is this artist? Brooklyn-born in 1960 to … Read more

Full Circle: What Ancient Genius Teaches Us About the Future of Creativity

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We’ve come a long way from cave paintings and clay tablets, haven’t we? Today, creativity streams from cloud servers, zip-lines through fiber optics, and shows up as viral memes about frogs in sunglasses. But here’s the twist: the more advanced our tools get, the more we start to look — eerily — like our ancestors. It’s as if progress … Read more