William Gomez ’27, at age eight, sat cross-legged on the living room floor in Ecuador, notebook in hand, waiting for “Art Attack” to start. The show aired at the same time each week, and every time, ...

There is an old paradox, retold by Anne Carson from Jorge Luis Borges, of an empire that created a map so precise it matched the depicted territory at a 1:1 scale. For an onlooker, the map became ...