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World's oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday provides the earliest evidence of human settlement of the region. Co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia's Griffith University told AFP it was found on the island of Sulawesi in 2017 by doctoral student Basran Burhan, as part of surveys the team was carrying out with Indonesian authorities. The Leang Tedongnge cave is located in a remote valley enclosed by sheer limestone ...
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Home-turned-museum retains 'soul' of southern Iraq
An imposing house stands out among other buildings in Iraq's Samawah city -- once a multi-generational family home, it's now a museum of a bygone age in the country's tribal south. Abdellatif al-Jablawi, the property's owner and family patriarch, led a tour of the traditional house where he was born 80 years ago. At the time, three generations, from grandparents to grandchildren, lived in the house, with its intricate "shanasheel" bay windows, wooden balconies and tall doors topped by elaborate lintels. "Over the generations, everyone preferred to rent elsewhere and the house emptied out," sai...
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Making It Up 147: NFT art and the evolution of the web
On Making It Up 147, Charis and Eugene discuss a new collection of artwork released by the artist Beeple that is in the form of NFT. They also talk about Async Art, a new kind of art movement built on the blockchain. Their second subject of the week is the state of the web in the year 2000 compared to what it is now, based on an article written by Postlight CEO Paul Ford. Timestamps00:03:23 NFT art00:25:17 Evolution of the web LinksThe Proof of NFTs — $3.5M Beeple Drop by LoopWeb Conversation From the Other Side by Paul FordThe post Making It Up 147: NFT art and the evolution of the web appear...
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Montreal offers 'light therapy' in pandemic winter
In the heart of downtown Montreal, residents of a city battered by months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic can now indulge in a little seasonal "light therapy". A special sound and light display has been set up to try to bring some comfort to Montreal. On Festival Square, Montrealers can marvel at imposing luminous zoetropes, fast-revolving wheels that project illustrations from twelve books written from Quebec in a way that makes the images seem like animation. Sitting inside one of these 19th-century pre-cinematic contraptions, Alison Abrego and Salma Houaichi, both 27, push a lever ...
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A US museum is encouraging home cooks to share their family recipes
Fans of good food largely agree that cooking is about sharing, before anything else. That's why the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington DC has decided to launch a virtual exhibition about culinary transmission. This initiative also encourages web users to share their own family recipes. Smeared with tomato sauce or olive oil, handed over from one generation to the next, recipe notebooks used to be key in preparing traditional meals; now, however, they have been replaced by smartphone apps that show us in a few seconds how to master chefs' recipes. The Washington Museum of...
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Is 'surgical mask blue' the real color of the year for 2020?
Every year, Pantone unveils the color set to define the trends of the following year. For 2021, there are two: Illuminating, a bright yellow, and Ultimate Grey. And there might be a third contender for the color of the year, if we look at the creative output of a Russian artist: mask blue. If the color of surgical masks were to have a name, it would be "Mask Blue" and it very well could have been the color of the year since it has been under our nose (as well as over it) all day since March. At least, that's the way it's been conceptualized by artist and creative director Artem Pozdniakov, who...
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Venice gold brightens Christmas spirit
Venice lacks the tourists who normally give it a festive air at Christmas, but the Italian city has nonetheless highlighted its landmarks to celebrate the holidays this year. Saint Mark's Square and the Rialto Bridge across the Grand Canal in particular benefit from special lighting and projections that give inhabitants some comfort in this time of coronavirus. Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi created a Christmas tree on the square with huge rectangular screens that project a golden light. They flood the area with warm light at night, reflecting off wet paving stones. "My purpose is to light up ...
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Small businesses frequent targets of pandemic loan scams
Kara Kapczynski could tell something wasn’t right.The Vinings School of Art — which she started in 2006 to offer painting, drawing and music classes — had received a federal pandemic relief loan in May.So, when an Atlanta-based employee with the Small Business Administration called Kapczynski on Nov. 17 to verify information for another loan, alarm bells went off, she said.“At first, I thought he was trying to scam me,” she said.As it happens, a fraudster had submitted an application for a $71,000 COVID-19 relief loan in the name of the Vinings School of Art.Fraud — whether it’s someone posing...
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'Van Gogh Alive' brings multisensory art experience to the Dali Museum
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Though painter Vincent van Gogh has been gone for more than a century, his work is alive and thriving in a multisensory exhibit now showing at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg through April 11, 2021.“Van Gogh Alive” presents visitors a nearly 40-minute immersion in the Dutch post-impressionist’s work with more than 3,000 images projected at enormous scale and set to classical music. Though the exhibit doesn’t contain narration, the creative works reveal an artist who was passionate and expressive but deeply troubled.“In his 37 years, he painted abundantly enough to be p...
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Mysterious monolith in US desert reportedly disappears
A mysterious metal monolith found in the remote desert of the western United States, sparking a national guessing game over how it got there, has apparently disappeared, officials said.The Bureau of Land Management in Utah said Saturday it had received "credible reports" that the object had been removed "by an unknown party" on Friday evening.The bureau "did not remove the structure which is considered private property," it said in a statement."We do not investigate crimes involving private property which are handled by the local sheriff's office."The shiny, triangular pillar which protruded s...
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