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Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis open to the public Thursday, October 17, 2024, through Sunday, March 16, 2025. Since John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice University galvanizing Americans behind ...
Sotheby’s high-stakes auction turned into a jaw-dropping spectacle Tuesday night when a $70 million Alberto Giacometti bronze bust failed to sell, leaving bidders and art insiders gobsmacked.
Speaking about the possibility of public art in the city, Quinn said: “Istanbul has so many beautiful locations suitable for public art. Dolmabahçe Palace and the Atatürk Cultural Centre plaza are at ...
(Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool Photo via AP, File) ROME (AP) — Koyo Kouoh, the curator of the 2026 Venice Art Biennale, has died at age 58, her home institution in South Africa said in an Instagram post ...
A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring Bronze Age civilizations across Europe, according to a new study published in the journal Antiquity. By analyzing ...
May 10, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
A new study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled that large amounts of Bronze Age tin may have originated from Cornwall and Devon in southwest Britain, where the richest and most accessible ...
It was essential to alloy with copper to make bronze, which for many centuries was the preferred metal for tools and weapons. Yet sources of tin are very scarce – and were especially so for the ...
The first smiths worked with copper and gold. Only when tin came to be added routinely to copper to make bronze did metal replace stone for tools and weapons. The innovation transformed Europe and ...
She also collaborated with UC's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning to reproduce ... Using resin reproductions of Bronze Age figurines, UC Assistant Professor Florence Gaignerot ...
Excavations on Somló Hill have produced one of the largest collections of late Bronze age and early Iron Age metal ever found in the region. Early Iron Age finds from Somló Hill in western Hungary.
For over two centuries, archaeologists have debated where Bronze Age societies obtained tin, a globally rare but crucial metal for making bronze (typically 90% copper and 10% tin). The research team ...