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• The universe, as seen by art and science – in pictures

  30-09-2017 20:00
  A new Phaidon photobook, Universe, compiles visions of space from across history, as seen by astronomers, astronauts, painters and propagandists• Read astronomer and author Dr Stuart Clark’s review of Universe Continue reading...
  
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• Avant-garde legend Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum in Tokyo

  30-09-2017 03:02
  Five-storey building dedicated to 88-year-old artist attracts huge interest before opening, with visitors restricted to 200 a dayYayoi Kusama is about to apply a splash of colour to an unremarkable Tokyo suburb with the opening of a new museum dedicated to the avant-garde artist whose career spans six decades, tens of thousands of artworks and countless polka dots.
  The 88-year-old’s trademark motif – along with her familiar “infinity nets” and generously lashed eye design
  
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• ‘Our sites are not to be used for money making’: the row over the Alice Springs light festival

  30-09-2017 00:11
  Parrtjima festival is meant to showcase Indigenous culture; instead it has raised the ire of some traditional custodians for infiltrating sacred land and lore At the base of Mount Gillen, known as Alhekulyele for thousands of years to the central Arrernte people of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), a wild dog called Akngwelye fought an intruder in an epic battle watched on by his pups and their mother. The battle raged east along the ancient mountain range and through the tranquil valley, where the dese
  
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• Terra Cotta Warriors Get The Augmented Reality Treatment

  30-09-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While some of these 10 warriors have been exhibited elsewhere, the institute is enhancing the experience with augmented reality technology to digitally recreate weapons and other objects that were originally held by the statues. The original artifacts crumbled and vanished as earthen walls and roof timbers collapsed during the warriors’ long occupancy of three underground pits.
  
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