These white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate an extraterrestrial signal transmitted from Mars and deciphered by a father-daughter team on Earth after a year-long decoding effort. The project was organized by some of the world’s top astronomers to run the scenario of a citizen science response…
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Artists come from all corners, in all shapes and sizes, and from every race and religion; John Pavart and his painted coconuts are a perfect example. The former opal miner turned painter from Australia’s state of New South Wales has been painting coconut husks for years, leaving them around the beaches…
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A painting that was found in a basement signed with the name “Picasso,” but that was dismissed, thrust into a cheap frame, hung in the family house, and then in a restaurant, has finally been recognized as an authentic piece by the Spanish artist. The value is already estimated to be…
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A two-foot-tall bronze statue of the Greek goddess Diana that once adorned the fireplace mantle onboard the Titanic was found during a recent expedition. Described as like finding “a needle in a haystack,” it was one of a variety of fine art pieces that have for years been the targets of…
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“Tucked away” in a home attic in Maine alongside a “collection of heirlooms and antiques” art appraisers found a lost Rembrandt portrait. Depicting a teenage woman in 17th-century Dutch attire, it recently sold at auction for $1.4 million, delighting the handlers who know it will be preserved and shared with the…
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“We’re a tourist attraction on Google Maps now,” local Londener Polly Barker told CBS News, gesturing to her garden hedge—trimmed immaculately so as to depict Henry Moore’s famous sculpture Reclining Nude. CBS was in Barker’s neighborhood to talk to the sculptor himself: a man named Bushe. Tim Bushe has been trimming…
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Social media allows for the darndest things: like this story from the UK where an art consultant and historian saw a post on X and noticed a lost work of art hanging in the background. It was in the judge’s room of the Shire Court in Warwickshire, England, where the Lord…
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