My cousin, Saulius Ploplys, was honored on Friday, March 6, with the grand opening of the Saul Ploplys Automation and Manufacturing Lab at Buffalo Grove High School in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. This laboratory was built […]
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Quantum consciousness and coronavirus
Yesterday, I visited Argonne National Laboratories in Lemont, Illinois. My upcoming art projects will include deciphering quantum consciousness. Since this involves theoretical structures, I thought that an understanding of quantum computers would be of benefit. […]
The Second Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture is on line
On February 5, Petra Goedegebuure, of the Oriental Institute, gave the Second Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk was “Anatolians on the Move: From Kurgans to Kanesh”. The presentation was extremely well […]
Memory Threads at the Monkute-Marks Museum
Lithuania’s National Library of Medicine organized a splendid exhibit of my artwork entitled Memory Threads (Atminties Gijos). I am pleased to announce that this exhibit has moved and will be displayed at the Janina Monkute-Marks […]
Marija Gimbutas Memorial Lecture
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Marija Gimbutas was a renowned Lithuanian American archeologist whose major research accomplishments were in the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of “Old Europe”, and her “Kurgan Hypothesis” in which the Proto-Indo-European origins […]
Memory Threads
I was honored to be invited to exhibit my artwork as part of the celebration of the 75-year anniversary of Lithuania’s National Library of Medicine. Pieces from three series will be on display: Memory, Sybils […]
On permanent display at the University of Chicago
With Macol Cerda we finished the permanent installation of the Columns of Thought at the University of Chicago’s Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. The atrium is named after my wife, Sigita, and myself. […]
Leon Berkowitz
The above image is Leon Berkowitz’s “Unities #16”, oil painting on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 1972. When I dropped out of medicine to pursue art full-time, I moved to Washington DC. It was 1976 […]
entropy is disinformation
Last night we attended an art exhibit preview at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA). As part of the “Art, Language, and Power” exhibit, the MCA staff put up a wall where the viewers could […]
TV interview
“Community Connection” is a 30-minute program shown on CN100, the Comcast (Xfinity) TV network. This particular episode aired several times each day during July, 2019. It included a seven-minute interview with me as part of […]