@EnglishBlase, Author at Art News Global

26 Dec Space Junk or Treasure? Experts Call for Preservation of Relics in Orbit

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If the maxim for the conscientious camper is to Leave No Trace, anthropologists are arguing for a corresponding approach as humanity ventures out across the solar system. Collecting the trash that homo sapiens litter in space may not always be feasible, they say, but we...

24 Dec Beeple’s New Show Unleashes His Wild Take on the Future

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Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, has been thinking about that banana recently. You know, the one that was bought from a fruit seller outside Sotheby’s, duct taped to a wall, flogged for $6.2 million, and devoured before the press in Hong Kong. The last time the eccentricities...

23 Dec Archaeologists Keep Finding Treasure at This Ancient Tuscan Spa

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According to Etruscan tradition, an area struck by lightning was considered auspicious and worthy of burying valuable objects. So it continues to prove in San Casciano dei Bagni, an ancient thermal spa town close to Siena, Tuscany, whose waters were believed curative by Etruscans, Romans,...

23 Dec A Secret Corridor Once Used by the Medicis Opens to the Public

Posted at 14:40h in Uncategorized by @EnglishBlase

A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly 500-year history following an €11 million ($11.4 million) restoration. By the 1560s, Cosimo I de Medici...