Global police agency Interpol said on Monday it is putting its database of stolen art online in a bid to stem the illicit traffic of artwork and cultural goods.
Internet
Aug 17, 2009
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People have fairly consistent preferences when it comes to judging the beauty of things in the real world—it's well known, for example, that humans prefer symmetrical faces. But our feelings about art may be more personal, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2023
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Visitors to a modern art museum lingered in front of artworks longer and exhibited more signs of excitement when given detailed descriptions of each piece compared to seeing basic labels, according to a study published May ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2023
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. However, many women artists—and the stories their works tell—comprise less than 4 per cent of total art sold at auction and fail to attract high selling prices compared to ...
Economics & Business
Mar 10, 2021
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Technology originally developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider and then flown in space by ESA is now being used to analyse historic artworks, helping to detect forgeries.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 11, 2019
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Software- and computer-based works of art are fragile—not unlike their canvas counterparts—as their underlying technologies such as operating systems and programming languages change rapidly, placing these works at risk.
Archaeology
Feb 17, 2019
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It is still OK to post photos of the London Eye—or other modern buildings or artworks in the European Union—online.
Internet
Jul 9, 2015
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Dressed in an immaculate white lab coat, Sandra Mottaz stares intently through a stereo microscope at a bold-coloured painting purportedly by French master Fernand Leger, searching for signs of forgery.
Other
Oct 8, 2014
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Ancient Japanese gold leaf artists were truly masters of their craft. An analysis of six ancient Namban paper screens show that these artifacts are gilded with gold leaf that was hand-beaten to the nanometer scale. Study ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 2, 2014
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From a distance these stunning images look likes stars exploding, fireworks or simply striking patterns - but what you're actually looking at are the hidden dimensions of the world wide web
Computer Sciences
Dec 4, 2013
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