I'd think that the most immediate connection between art and science
   are the technological tools available to do the job...pigments, sound
   generating technology (from piano actions to digital sampling), etc
   etc.

   There was an ad in the Economist this week which shows on one page the
   Libyan Sibyl (or is it sybil?) from the Sistine Chapel, and on the
   other page the words: "inspiration, genius, dedication, Carrier Air
   Conditioning" the point being that the restoration is made possible by
   state of the art climate control...

   I am skeptical of the ostensible connections between "relativity" and
   the subjectivity of images, or the expansion of the vocabularies of
   music and literature, early in this century.

   I do intuit, along with the author you describe, some underlying
   ethos, but one pictures very different conditions surrounding the
   creation of mathematical/experimental models of subatomic physics and
   the creation of paintings, sculpture, music, and literature.

   Eric Siegel
   [log in to unmask]