Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s atomic symphony of chance at Park Avenue Armory (opens in new tab)

In ancient atomist philosophy, clinamen names the unpredictable swerve of atoms, the subtle deviation from a straight path that allows collision, creation, consequence, and the entire drama of becoming to occur. Without that swerve, matter would fall through the void in sterile parallel motion, never meeting, never altering course, never producing the rupture from which...