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When Björk met Attenborough
Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other’s work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love...
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The Book of Secrets by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi
The Book of Secrets was copied in 1266 (in Toledo) from an original dating back to the eleventh century by the Andalusian engineer Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi. It is an extraordinarily important manuscript...
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Masterpieces at risk from preservation technique
Groundbreaking new Danish research shows that a frequently used preservation method may damage oil paintings – including some of the world’s great masterpieces. If an oil painting treated with the...
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New light on da Vinci's anatomical drawings in Edinburgh
Almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci’s death, an exhibition that sheds new light on the his groundbreaking studies of the human body opened this Friday at The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of...
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The Anatomy Lesson: From Rembrandt to Damien Hirst
Human anatomy is a subject of inexhaustible interest not only to science, but also to art. For centuries, the human body and its dissection have been popular subjects among artists. Driven by their...
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Were the First Artists Mostly Women?
National Geographic has a most fascinating story on ancient cave art which most often belonged to women: “Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient...
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Closer to Van Eyck –‘The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’ under the microscope
(AFP).- Split, stolen, even stashed in a salt mine, one of the world’s most mythical oils, Flemish masterpiece “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb”, is undergoing its most ambitious clean-up in 600...
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Michael Najjar returns to Star City for Cosmonaut Training
Michael Najjar once more returned to Star City to continue his cosmonaut training, this time taking a parabolic flight in a Russian Ilyushin II-76. The zero or microgravity of space is simulated by...
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Cosmic Dancer – First Art Show in Earth Orbit on Mir Space Station
On May 22, 1993, a sculpture called the Cosmic Dancer created by the Swiss/American artist Arthur Woods was launched to the Russian Mir space station on a Progress rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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