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13,800-Year-Old Engraving May Be First Depiction of a Man-Made Landscape
Seven crude semicircles scratched into the surface of an ancient stone slab may not make much of an impression on modern-day viewers.
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Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks
On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.
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Graphic Condoms Let You Make Love to Works of Art
What if putting on a condom felt like banging a Monet?
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A New Barbie Doll Channels Andy Warhol
Leave it to Mattel, the maker of the Barbie doll, to fulfill Andy Warhol's famous wish to be plastic.
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Hundreds of French Artists Rebuke Rapprochement from Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen, the candidate for the far-right Front National party in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region in France's upcoming regional elections, recently extended an olive branch of sorts to the area's artists.
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A New App Visualizes the Radio Waves All Around Us
The modern world is awash in a sea of radio waves — currents of electromagnetic radiation upon which our digital lives depend. What if you could see this invisible dimension?
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Do Not Pass “Bo”: Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game in China
It includes a 14-face die carved from an animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces featuring painted numbers, and a broken tile that once made up part of the game board.
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Rijksmuseum Asks Visitors to Stop Taking Photos and Start Sketching the Art
The Rijksmuseum's new #StartDrawing campaign encourages visitors to slow down and sketch the works they see in the galleries instead of photographing them and moving on to the next thing.
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"Tech Tats" Turn Wearable Devices into Cyberpunk Body Art
Since the beginning of the Quantified Self Movement, designers have struggled to create wearable tech that people actually want to wear, and that doesn't make the wearer look like a raging Glasshole.
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Hypnotic Animations of Vintage Op-Art Book Covers
In the 1950s and '60s, book cover designers borrowed from the aesthetics of the burgeoning Op art movement.
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Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death
On November 17 a court in Saudi Arabia sentenced the artist, poet, and curator Ashraf Fayadh to death for renouncing Islam.
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Dio Mio! Thieves Steal Artworks by Tintoretto, Rubens, Bellini and Others in Italian Museum Heist
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, thieves have stolen 17 valuable artworks from a museum.