from Wooster Collective -
The Laundry Detergent Paintings of Craig Paul Nowak
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An amazing use of the effect of ultra-violet fluorescence, which is an optical property commonly exploited in the examination of materials prior to conservation treatment. In this case, the optical brighteners used in ordinary laundry detergent becomes the artist's medium (and message).
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from The Plain Dealer -
Paint experts say it's very unlikely Pollock had access to pigments patented after he died
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When technical analysis is at odds with connoisseurship, it unnecessarily plays up the seeming separation of (and power play between) a humanistic and a scientific approach in the study of art. In actual fact, art has to be understood as occpying that intersection between taste and materials, combining both creative ideas and skillful execution.

Also see earlier post here.
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from The Telegraph -
Shanghai: Art Deco capital - for now
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It will take plenty of political and popular will for Shanghai, which is emphatically leading the economic charge in China, to escape the fate that had befallen the other modernist cities and be considered as the last vestige of Art Deco architeture in the world! Leaving it to free market forces will undoubtedly ensure that architecture remnants of the Art Deco movement will be merely textbook curosities.
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from Wired -
Neutron Beams Search for Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece
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from Los Angels Times -
Scientific tools hunt for lost Da Vinci art
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A brief look at using the technology of Neutron Activation Analysis to "pierce" through an existing wall, hoping to uncover one of Leonardo's known but missing fresco.

Als see earlier post here on the use of Neutron Activation Analysis in the examination of museum artefacts.
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from Underwire -
'Reverse Graffiti' Artist Creates Tunnel of Skulls
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An interesting take on "cleaning" as art, and how the act of overall cleaning and washing, in this case, "destroys" the work of art.
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from The Guardian -

After 2,500 years, Parthenon treasures move to new home
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Should we give the Parthenon marbles back?
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Should London finally lose the Parthenon marbles?
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Another step in the saga of the Parthenon marbles. See earlier posts here.
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from GCI Newsletter -
Outdoor Sculpture
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The latest from the Getty Conservation Insitute, looking at various issues of outdoor sculptures and their conservation.
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