A treasury of small wonders at the British Museum, multi-screen interactives to do your head in and a Michelangelo cartoon all in your weekly art dispatch
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
Powerful designs and suggestive sketches by artists including Cézanne and Bridget Riley as well as the Renaissance masters make this touring exhibition from the British Museum a treasury of small wonders.
• Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, Poole Museum and Art Gallery, Dorset, 3 September - 6 November.
A treasury of small wonders at the British Museum, multi-screen interactives to do your head in and a Michelangelo cartoon all in your weekly art dispatch
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
Powerful designs and suggestive sketches by artists including Cézanne and Bridget Riley as well as the Renaissance masters make this touring exhibition from the British Museum a treasury of small wonders.
• Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now, Poole Museum and Art Gallery, Dorset, 3 September - 6 November.
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An evening walk in Hammersmith, London, beside the Thames.
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The construction of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia involved the removal of the top half of Capital Hill (the mound on which the structure was built). After the project was completed, much of the displaced earth was replaced on top of the building where a lush, green lawn now grows. While much of Canberra was designed by by Walter Burley Griffin in 1913, this specific complex opened in 1988, is designed to look like two boomerangs, and contains approximately 4,400 rooms.
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I won't insult your intelligence by pretending to be unbiased. I think exactly what you'd expect a Canadian who lives in San Francisco to think: how could anyone with a reasonable command of the available evidence even consider voting for Donald Trump? …But my search for an answer has led me to the uncomfortable sense that the tech industry is partly responsible for… Read More The Art of Exploring posted a photo:
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Big Ben, London (UK)
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A Spanish publisher has won the right to reproduce the manuscript, but are they any closer to discovering what it actually is?
This week a small Spanish publishing house secured the right to clone the Voynich manuscript. The original is housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University - although a hi-res version of the whole thing has been available online for years - and it is one of the oddest things I have ever seen. The 246 quarto pages contain words written in an unknown language, and pictures of things that look familiar, but do not actually exist. It would resemble a medieval herbal catalogue if any of the plants in it were real. There are astrological-style charts, authentically hairy tubers, a baby dragon eating a sort of alien chard, and naked women immersed in vats of green liquid in what could be an early modern version of The Matrix.
“Discovered” by Polish book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in a monastery in 1912, and apparently once owned by Emperor Rudolph II of Germany, the manuscript's mythic history reads like a Who's Who of esoteric celebrities. Did John Dee create it to impress his European patrons? Did Roger Bacon write it? More plausibly, was it created by Voynich himself, a trained chemist with access to old vellum? In 2009 the manuscript was carbon dated and found to have come from the early 15th century. Or at least the parchment did.
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Chancellor Merkel has decided to push back her announcement as to whether she intends to run for a fourth term as chancellor, DER SPIEGEL has learned. The delay is the product of an unresolved dispute with her Bavarian sister party, the CSU. Florian Bütow posted a photo:
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Numbers of the endangered butterfly, once pronounced extinct in the UK, have reached their highest level in 80 years, according to conservationists
A butterfly once pronounced extinct in the UK has been seen in record numbers this year, according to conservationists.
There were over 10,000 adult large blue butterflies in Gloucestershire and Somerset the largest concentration of the species known in the world.
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