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A Map Library Is Digitizing Its Rarest Globes as 3D Models
"Globes have a very low survival rate," explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: people pillaged stones from the quarry where Stonehenge's giant rocks were sourced, the certificate of authenticity of a Lee Ufan painting recently sold at auction was found to be fake, and a curator bit a fellow passenger on an airplane.
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Amid the 2016 World Press Photo Contest Winners, a Focus on Refugees
A picture by Australian photographer Warren Richardson was crowned the World Press Photo of the Year 2015; it shows a man passing a baby through a barbed-wire fence at the Hungarian–Serbian border.
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Paris's Art Models Protest for Job Security and Better Wages
PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the large plaza in front of the Hôtel de Ville.
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Workers at B&H Photo’s Manhattan Warehouse Vote to Unionize
This morning, workers in the basement warehouse of B&H Photo Video's flagship store in Manhattan voted 46–14 to unionize, hoping to give themselves a voice in a work environment that many have described as hazardous and abusive.
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Attacks on Artistic Freedom Almost Doubled Worldwide in 2015, Report Says
ISIS's November 13 massacre at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris’ Bataclan theater, which left 89 people dead and 99 more critically injured, was part of one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history.
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Looters Kill Two Guards at Ancient Egyptian Necropolis
Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.
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Tweet Your Art at NASA to Send It on an Asteroid Journey
This September, NASA is launching its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft on a return journey to the Bennu asteroid, and is inviting the public to send space-inspired art along for the galactic ride.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
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Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
Last October, two artists entered the Neues Museum in Berlin, where they clandestinely scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the state museum's prized gem.
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A Museum for the Blocky Graphics of Early Computer Viruses
When the first PC viruses appeared in the 1980s, they not only tampered with machine systems, but also filled the screens of home computers with technicolor text and flashy graphics or animations.
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From an Extinct Lion to an Alligator Mid-Meal, Preserving Moments from the Bronx Zoo’s Glass Plate Archive
Since 1901, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo has maintained a photography department, and now holds a collection of over 70,000 glass plate and film negatives.