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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Fine Art Week: Pigeons Would Make Pretty Good Art Critics
Description: This week we’re replaying some of our finest episodes about some of the finest works ever created. In this episode from October 2021, a look at the research into how pigeons take in and process visual information, like art. Apparently it's pretty complex. Plus: in Detroit, a local news reporter does a story about a local skateboard park, and flawlessly rides a skateboard in the middle of his report!
The Pigeon as Art Critic (Scientific American)
Van Gogh, Chagall and pigeons: picture discrimination in pigeons and humans (NIH)
Pigeons' Discrimination of Paintings By Monet and Pica...