How Natural Are We?
Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boatâa green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which heâd got for his birthday.
Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar
The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpoleâs Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: ââWatteauâA dream of Watteauâs, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Cloudsâ.â
Van Goghâs fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London
The showâs focus will be on the 27 months in 1888-90 that Van Gogh spent in Provence, initially working in the town of Arles, partly at the Yellow House, and, after mutilating his ear, in the asylum just outside Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence.
Elizabeth Catlettâthe artist who was seen as a threat to the USâgets her due with touring show
In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlettâs life and careerâfrom the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive countryâthe curators hope to recast a dichotomy that has been used to structure exhibitions and texts about her work: the contrast between her decades-long printmaking practice and her commissions for public monuments in the 1980s.
What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?
One of them, NextGen Jane, imagined a future where, ahead of your gynecology appointment, you could simply mail a sealed tampon to a lab for analysis; the results might indicate that you had an eighty-per-cent chance of endometriosis, making it worthwhile to undergo surgery and find out for sure.
AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical
Hephaestus Analytical is a London-based tech company that integrates AI analysis and machine learning trained from sampled data sets, alongside scientific tests, provenance research, and âconnoisseurly expertise to analyze works.
Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?
A study by the Center for Democracy and Technology found that âa majority of teachers still report that generative AI has made them more distrustful of whether their studentsâ work is actually theirs.â Such suspicions have been paired with real questions about the efficacy of A.I.-detection tools, including one concerning finding that showed A.I.
The late Dakota artist Mary Sully in four key works at the Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Artâs exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern (until 12 January 2025) features a recently rediscovered trove of works by the self-taught Yankton Dakota artist.
A Field Guide to Bros
The vests provide protection from over-air-conditioned offices and are used to lure other Finance Bros into bromancesâunions formed for discussing arbitrage, golf, and small-batch bourbon.
The Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming
However, according to Forlenza, AFA still faces many of the same challenges hitting other parts of the art industry, including spiking costs for utilities, raw materials, fuel, and insurance, as well as difficulties recruiting and retaining highly specialized staff.
âOnce in a generation chanceâ: Hampton Court conservation grants visitors closer look at Chapel Royal
They gaze up at the richly painted vaulted ceiling, with musician cherubs scrambling out of the pendants created for Henry VIII, and the extensive Baroque decoration carried out for Queen Anne.
Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons
Borys Petrunok, a researcher with Zmina, a human rights organisation in Kyiv that has identified culture workers as one of the groups of Ukrainian citizens most vulnerable to arbitrary detention by Russian forces, says it is incredibly difficult to compile a comprehensive list of the missing.
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
An alumnus of the Courtauld Institute (his PhD dissertation under John Golding was on the work of Still), he was very much an old-school scholar, rigorous and considered, with a love and respect for the written word that was always evident in his own extensive and varied production, as well as during has stint as a commissioning editor at Phaidon.
Saatchi Collection sends major Ibrahim Mahama work to auction
They are then often reused many times to carry feed, coal and charcoal around the country for domestic consumption, before being finally repurposed by Mahama at the end of their working life, illustrating the complex trade networks of the global economy and post-independence Ghana.
How Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Laid a Stable Ground for MoMAâs Success
The arduous task of finding suitable real estate thus fell to Crowninshield and Goodyear, who searched several possibilities before settling on six rooms on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building, at 730 Fifth Avenue, a location that Sullivan, through a former student of hers, helped them root out.
Le Veau dâOr Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback
The present-day bill of fare, too, is only lightly modernized: les escargot provençale (snails broiled under a blanket of butter, garlic, and tomato concasse), tete de veau ravigote (crispy cubes of veal headcheese), chilled lobster macĂ©doine, a delightfully wobbly oeuf en gelĂ©eâa whole boiled egg suspended like a specimen in an amber aspic of consommĂ©âthat calls back to what the Times, in a scathing 1977 review, highlighted as one of the restaurantâs very few dishes worth recommending.
A New AI Project Involving 12 Major Institutions Aims to Transform Art Preservation with Color Reconstruction
The hope is that the development of a package of tools will bolster the ability of conservators, curators, and others to study and digitally reconstruct the original colors of five key groups of art: statues, paintings and works on paper, textiles, photographs, and augmented reality artworks.