He was a prodigiously talented artist, a sought-after portrait painter, and a sculptor of presidents. That all changed at the age of 49, when the Universe revealed its inner secrets to him during an intense 39-day vision. Walter Russell went on to establish his own University, dedicating the rest of his life to creating breathtaking diagrams of his "new cosmology"—masterpieces of visual authority and pseudoscience. How can something so scientifically wrong look so visually ri

How did a military map-maker become the Master of the Bauhaus Theatre? We trace the diagrammatic evolution of Oskar Schlemmer, exploring his Figure in Space, the Slat Dance, and his lifelong quest to codify the human form within a "sphere of ideas."