From the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary: Rube Gold·berg. adjective \rüb-ˈgōl(d)-ˌbərg\: accomplishing by complex means what seemingly could be done simply <a kind of Rube Goldberg contraption . . . with ...

The temporary exhibit celebrates the artwork of one of the most influential cartoon illustrators of the twentieth century. Museumgoers can check out The Art of Rube Goldberg from May 20 through August ...

The spectator at ringside sees a wrestler on the mat and asks: “Is he down?” The sports fan is told: “No, he wants to change his luck, and he’s looking for a four-leaf clover.” A book discusses “How ...

Who knew a disassembled shoe could be so sexual, or so sculptural? In Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Sofía Alazraki’s exhibition “Fortuna y fetiche,” the two friends. In July 2022, the San Francisco-based ...

I left “The Art of Rube Goldberg” on the kitchen table one morning to see if my 8-year-old would take the bait. It wasn’t long before she was pulling the book closer to study the cartoonist’s cockeyed ...

PHILADELPHIA — This artist is famous enough for his name to become an adjective recognizable over a century. His namesake Rube Goldberg machines make simple tasks ridiculously complicated. But did you ...

"Zwei Mann Orchester" on display at Pearlstein Gallery. The musical Rube Goldberg machine consists of over 200 instruments, played by just two performers. (Jen Kinney/WHYY) A bouncy ball that plays ...

THE ART OF RUBE GOLDBERG: (A) INVENTIVE (B) CARTOON (C) GENIUS By Jennifer George Abrams ComicArts, $60, 192 pages In the world of comic strips, many great cartoonists have left their indelible mark.

Even if you don’t know his name, you have likely seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a television commercial, cartoon or movie. The complicated mechanical systems are often made of everyday items cobbled ...

When you think of Rube Goldberg, you probably imagine complex, whimsical machines. The wacky devices had a dizzying array of working parts and a prosaic end goal such as, say, affixing a postage stamp ...

If, as the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once asserted, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, at “The Art of Rube Goldberg”—an entrancing new exhibition at ...