Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...

Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm ...

Venice’s ancient walls are unaccustomed to the scent of fresh paint, let alone street art. Taron Manukyan stood before that historical silence, a spray can in hand. In a city where every stone is a ...

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability.

Data center build-out is enabling much larger and more complex abstractions. Competition is building for digital/virtual twins across multiple industry segments, including automotive, aerospace, and ...

Modern enterprises are drowning in tools, platforms and frameworks. Every year, we add another layer—a new cloud service, data stack or platform that promises to simplify everything—yet somehow the ...

Installation view, "Language of Abstraction," Chinese American Museum of Chicago Credit: Chinese American Museum of Chicago Other than their backgrounds and their eventual emigration to Chicago, ...

In Zurich, Galerie von Vertes is presenting "Gerhard Richter: Fiction and Reality," surveying the German artist's work dating from 1981 to 2004. Gerhard Richter, U.L., (1985). Courtesy of Galerie von ...

The work of American artist Stanley Casselman lives at the intersection of art and science, translating the elements of reality—from the vastness of the cosmos to the infinitesimal building blocks of ...

When you consider abstract art, your mind likely conjures images of works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Piet Mondrian: bold shapes, swaths of vibrant colors and innovative techniques. However, ...

There is already something inherently abstract in the uniquely spiritual and metaphorical use of empty space in traditional Chinese painting. The liubai (留白), or “leaving blank,” transforms emptiness ...

In the summer of 1982, Sean Scully spent a month at the Edward Albee Foundation’s Barn in Montauk, N.Y. The then 37-year-old artist, born in Dublin and raised in London, had been living in New York ...