A proper appreciation of spit might have prevented an art tragedy. The tragedy is reported by VN Express International: HCMC museum takes a national treasure to the cleaners A precious lacquer painting suffered 30 percent damage during cleaning process due to cleaner’s lack of knowledge in art. The painting, Vuon Xuan Trung Nam Bac (Spring Garden […]
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Art is in the AI of the beholder: Making Mona Lisa Move
Art is in the AI of the beholder, so to speak. In a report called “Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life,” Techcrunch describes what’s in a new research paper: …Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s […]
The Secrets Within Prince Shōtoku: The 70 objects inside him
Secrets will be revealed about how the the secrets were revealed about what was secreted inside a seemingly simple statue: When the sculpture arrived in the United States in 1937, a visiting Japanese conservator discovered that it contained an extraordinary cache of more than 70 dedicatory objects. It has taken over 80 years to begin […]
BBC History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
“This plastic pink flamingo, an enduring item of kitsch Americana, is as much a phenomenon as it is an everyday garden ornament,” writes Linda Laban, introducing the BBC’s history of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning plastic pink flamingo. The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize for art was awarded to Don Featherstone, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the […]