Catalyst Conversations
05/12/2026
IT’S TONIGHT! || What if beauty isn’t just something we see, but something woven into the fabric of reality?
Join us for Catalyst Conversations: Seeking Beauty. Finding Truth. An evening exploring where art and science meet, with Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize winning physicist and author of A Beautiful Question, and Shelley Reed, an evocative contemporary painter whose work explores beauty through perception, emotion, and form.
MODERATOR
Dr. Leonie Bradbury, Curator of Emerson Contemporary and Foster Chair of Contemporary Art at Emerson College
Together, they’ll ask: Is the universe itself a work of art?
May 12th
6 to 8 PM | Doors open 5:30 PM
650 East Kendall Street, Cambridge
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A night of resonance across body, cosmos, and thought 💫
Alan Lightman brought the conversation to the threshold of science and spirit, reflecting on transcendence as something rooted in the material brain. Like fireflies blinking in unison, he offered a vision of connection that resists explanation yet binds us together.
Russell C. Powell traced transcendentalism as a living intellectual tradition, one that began in resistance and continues to shape how we think about ecology, ethics, and our place in the world.
Maria Molteni grounded the evening in practice, sharing their murals as “altars to the sky,” where public space becomes a site of layered meaning, collective memory, and resistance.
From the opening STETHOSUIT soundscape to a dialogue shaped by antiphony and exchange, the evening unfolded as a study in entanglement.
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