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Are Replicas Changing the Way We Experience Art?
Precise digital reproductions allow more people to own and view masterpieces—minus the work’s soul.
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You are in the Chauvet cave, 35,000 years old. As you enter, the walkway you traverse winds around spot-lit, saber-toothed stalactites and stalagmites. The rough-skin texture of the stone walls is slick in the perpetually damp dark. Your flashlight picks out first one, then more prehistoric paintings on the wall. A deer, bison, a rhinoceros, all painted in charcoal black by Paleolithic hands. Or were they?
In Berlin, innovative art, museums confront tragic past
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Berlin is a city of tragic memory. In its post-Wall years, it has also been a city in a rush to confront that dark past with a dramatic energy.
For the traveler, enjoying Berlin's art scene is to discover the art in public and private spaces often linked to the Third Reich or the Cold War.
Nasa's secret art studio: how to make rocket science beautiful
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If you’ve marveled at space news recently, there’s a good chance it’s thanks to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This arm of Nasa is responsible for the most ambitious of missions, like sending robots to Mars and, most recently, the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter.
But the JPL has another under-the-radar mission: uniting two uncommon bedfellows – design and science – in new and meaningful ways.
Cleveland Gets an Art Triennial
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If it can regularly bring tens of thousands of art lovers and international attention to a small, drab, industrial city in Germany, could art do the same thing for Cleveland?
“Shazam for Art” Yanked from App Store After Data Theft Controversy
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Magnus, the much-praised mobile app that branded itself as the “Shazam for art,” is now off the market, following news that it operated using information grabbed from other art world databases as well as copyright claims by three German galleries. Apple has removed the free app from its store, as Artnet News reported, after a five-month run.
These Four Technologies May Finally Put an End to Art Forgery
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Like method actors and bearded brewmasters, the best art forgers are obsessed with authenticity. But thanks to a handful of new authentication technologies, even history’s most painstaking efforts wouldn’t stump today’s art sleuths.
Google’s new Arts & Culture app brings the world’s art, virtual tours and more to your smartphone
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This lab is capturing pollution and turning it into paint
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Air Ink, a brand new concept by India-basedGraviky Labs, uses polluted air to create paint and ink.
The company's first line of Air Ink products includes pens, oil-based paints and spray paints. Each product contains pigments made from carbon soot.
Political Art in a Fractious Election Year
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In 2008, when the artist Shepard Fairey created the graphically striking “Hope” portrait to support Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, it seemed as if a rich tradition of American political imagery reaching back at least to the middle of the 20th century — on posters, buttons, bumper stickers — was still very much alive. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the “Hope” poster “epic poetry in an everyday tongue.”
Art used to heal children’s anxiety over illness
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For Dorkas Kaya and other young patients with HIV, seeing the walls of their residential treatment center transformed with broad splashes of color and graffiti-like scribbles brought a singular reaction: “Whoa!”
Artist Jose Parla spent several days last week decorating bedrooms, hallways and common areas of the Incarnation Children’s Center in his signature improvisational style, the latest project in a charitable effort that commissions top contemporary artists to make pediatric health facilities less intimidating.
Banksy, Shepard Fairey art displayed for DNC at ‘Truth to Power’ exhibition
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We already told you about the musical portion of “Truth to Power,” the huge pop-up art exhibition taking over 990 Spring Garden St. from Monday, July 25 to Wednesday, July 27, but the art exhibition side of things is even more massive.
This Famous Art Was Hidden in a Shed for 16 Years
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In a yard full of police tow trucks in North Philadelphia, a massive green sculpture of copper pipe and welded bronze sits outside a vehicle workshop, its extravagant curves forming a startling contrast to the gritty surroundings.
The sculpture is “Free Interpretation of Plant Forms,” completed by the artist and furniture designer Harry Bertoia in 1967 for a prominent position outside the Philadelphia Civic Center, a municipal complex, but which since 2000 has been hidden from public view in a purpose-built shed outside the police workshop.