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Scans of Girl with a Pearl Earring reveal painting's hidden secrets

Using the latest imaging technology, conservators have turned back time on Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, revealing the masterpiece's hidden secrets

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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

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Sir Maurice Youge, Internationally renowned marine zoologist (1899-1986). His hybrid form is based on the local murex shell
Patterns and letters written in water

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Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Hilma af Klint The Ten Largest, Group IV, No. 9, Old Age, 1907 Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation

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Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before

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Famous Benin Bronzes from West Africa used metal sourced in Germany

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Credit: David Blandy, Atomic Light, installation view, John Hansard Gallery, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Reece Straw

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Atomic Light review: Solar astronomers rescue an uneven installation

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Images and caption info from the book Your Brain on Art Universe of Water Particles on a Rock where People Gather ? teamLab The interdisciplinary arts collective teamLab created an audience-driven experience in Tokyo called teamLab Borderless that brings the natural world to life. See image E in the color insert. The collective incorporates light, sound, and visual effects that feel as though you are part of the art, and that seem to transcend our normal perceptions of time and place. As you meander through the space, you are able to manipulate the surroundings through touch, and to watch as digital flowers bloom, and die, and bloom again. We often think of ourselves as individuals separate from our surroundings, from nature, but this stunning interactive museum dissolves the boundary between art and the viewer, allowing you to feel your surroundings in a visceral way. Composed of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, teamLab represents the exciting, transdisciplinary collaborations of the future.

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Your Brain on Art review: Fascinating guide needs a bit more science

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The newly discovered Moai statue found on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island

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Moai statue discovered in a dried-up lake on Easter Island

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Can AI curate art better than a human?

An exhibition of art curated by AI and humans questions the impact AI has on visual culture and how audiences perceive creative content

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Plate, ca. 1885 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access collection

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Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing

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Science needs to work with the arts to reach all who could benefit

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Owl-like engravings from Copper Age may have been made by children

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Filling the internet with AI-created images will harm future AIs

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