New Work: World Science Festival

Luke Hayman has designed the logo for the first annual World Science Festival that opened in New York last night. The mark, which resembles an element from the periodic table, represents the festival that brings together leading researchers, educators, policy-makers and artists in an unprecedented celebration of scientific discovery. The festival continues through Sunday at 15 venues throughout the city and includes public lectures, demonstrations, performances and a street fair with family-friendly interactive exhibits. On the schedule for tonight, among other things, is a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Oliver Sacks on the surprising relationship between vision and the brain, while at the Guggenheim Museum director/choreographer Karole Armitage will present a new work inspired by physicist Brian Greene’s bestselling book, The Elegant Universe.