#the art newspaper

[4eternal-life]

Jean-Paul Riopelle  (Canadian, 1923-2002)

Printemps,  1952

© Estate of Jean Paul Riopelle / SOCAN (2022)

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/jean-paul-riopelle

[gregdotorg]

Untitled (happy place), 2014, was a print I made using a page from The Art Newspaper's daily edition in Art Basel.

[campaignoutsider]

MFABoston's Romance With NFTs: Not Fiscally Tangible, Maybe?

MFABoston’s Romance With NFTs: Not Fiscally Tangible, Maybe?

The other day the hardworking staff received this email from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Not to get technical about it, but we don’t have a digital collection of NFTs, mostly because they’re the pet rocks of the art world. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Last year the Boston Globe’s Malcolm Gay reported on the origins of the MFA’s NFT fling. ‘Someone had to move first’: MFA plans sale…

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

[addictedgallery]

EXTRACT: There has been speculation as to the meaning of the series. Some have suggested it might be a comment on the impact of humans on biodiversity, with last year’s landmark "State of Nature" report describing the UK as one of the most nature depleted countries in the world.

[lopsaii]

Ongoing stepladder debate

[littlebitofinsanity]

It's on the train...

(Edit: eheh I know this is actually the tube but tubes are just more spook and aesthetic, LOOK AT THAT LIGHTING YUM YUM YUM)

(Edit edit: some of the reblog tags are making me chuckle)

[phoenix-joy]

‘Ancient Roman’ Solar Roof Tiles Power Pompeii Villa

Ancient Roman ruins at Pompeii have been fitted with invisible solar panels, in a move that will contribute to the archaeological site’s sustainability efforts and cut costs. The innovative panels, which blend into the background by imitating traditional materials, were installed on the House of Cerere, on a thermopolium — a Roman snack bar — and on the House of the Vettii, which recently reopened following 20 years of restoration work.

“They look exactly like the terracotta tiles used by the Romans, but they produce the electricity that we need to light the frescoes,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the archaeological park of Pompeii, in a press release.

Each year, 3.5 million tourists explore the vast ruins of the ancient Roman city, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. But due to Pompeii’s size, energy bills are expensive and conventional methods of providing power across the site can threaten its appearance.

“Pompeii is an ancient city which in some spots is fully preserved,” Zuchtriegel said. “Since we needed an extensive lighting system, we could either keep consuming energy, leaving poles and cables around and disfiguring the landscape, or choose to respect it and save millions of euros.” The new technology will help the archaeological site to cut energy bills and make it more enjoyable, he added.

The invisible solar panels — or “traditional PV tiles” as they are technically known — were created by the Italian company Dyaqua. They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick, and hidden on walls, floors and roofs, according to Elisabetta Quagliato, whose family owns Dyaqua, in the press statement.

“We are an archaeological site but we also want to be a real-life lab for sustainability and the valorization of intangible heritage,” Zuchtriegel said. “Our initiative is not merely symbolic. Through the million tourists who visit us every year, we want to send a message to the world: cultural heritage can be managed differently and in a more sustainable way.”

Other locations in Italy using the invisible solar technology are the commune of Vicoforte in Italy and, soon, Rome’s contemporary art museum Maxxi. Public buildings in Evora, Portugal, and Split, Croatia will also install the panels, according to the press statement.

Pompeii’s recent use of these panels is just the beginning, Zuchtriegel said. “From now on, we will be taking this solution into account for all future renovation and restoration projects.”

By Garry Shaw.

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[gregdotorg]

Martin Bailey has done incredible reporting on Kwer’ata Re’esu, a 16th century painting of a bleeding Christ which became the most important religious icon in Ethiopia, and which was looted on orders of the British Museum and then lost from the world until The Art Newspaper located it in 1998, and has now posted the first color images of it, from Bailey's visit to it in a private collection in Portugal.

image: Martin Bailey/The Art Newspaper

[anokha-swad]

“Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.”

— Ray Kurzweil

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Links:

Artist Gabriel Massan uses video game world-building and the blockchain to reimagine the meaning of 'Third World' (theartnewspaper.com)

Gabriel Massan | Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 (bkkartbiennale.com)

Taste

[casterhex]

only one bed and no natural light. who knows what could've happened down there.

[gameraboy2]

Peanuts, June 9, 1952