Four overlapping steel pyramids form sunken art museum

Having begun construction back in 2011, Foster + Partners’ Datong Art Museum has now finally officially opened to visitors. The ambitious arts building is defined by a complex roofline made up of four overlapping steel pyramids that are designed to res… Continue reading Four overlapping steel pyramids form sunken art museum

Painted Over But Not Forgotten: Restoring Lost Paintings With Radiation And Mathematics

An intrinsic property of paintings, that makes them both wonderful and very annoying, is the fact that they are physical objects. Sometimes they survive across the ages as amazing artifacts …read more Continue reading Painted Over But Not Forgotten: Restoring Lost Paintings With Radiation And Mathematics

717-gigapixel photo shows Rembrandt masterpiece in unprecedented detail

Rembrandt's Night Watch has been photographed in unprecedented detail, with each pixel representing an area smaller than a human blood cell

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has released what it claims is the highest-resolution photo of an artwork ever created. A total of 8,439 individual 100-megapixel exposures were stitched together to create this 717-billion-pixel image of a celebrated Rembrandt painting.

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Alex Chinneck puts a surreal spin on an everyday spiral staircase

Alex Chinneck’s latest work sees the architectural artist reveal what he calls his most complex and ambitious sculpture to date: a spiral staircase that has a surreal twist and appears to be bursting apart as it climbs the side of a building.Continue R… Continue reading Alex Chinneck puts a surreal spin on an everyday spiral staircase