Canadian War Artists of WWI
Today is Remembrance Day. On this, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, at 11 o’clock an armistice was signed that ended Word War I. While today Remembrance Day is observed as a means to honour the sacrifice of members…
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Impossible Objects
Optical illusions are an interesting cognitive stumble that can be explained through gestalt theory – but a simple shorthand is to say that what we are seeing doesn’t match up with what we expect to see, and the illusion is…
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Google Art Project (update)
Back in September I mentioned Google Art Project… I don’t know about you, but I often fantasize about winning a hefty lottery and spending the rest of my life travelling the world, visiting art museums. Google has come up with something…
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Nazi Buddhist Iron Man from Space is Fake
I know it sounds like something from Indiana Jones, but it’s true. Last month, the headlines looked like this – Priceless Tibetan Buddha statue looted by Nazis was carved from meteorite Relic taken by SS in 1930s analysed by researchers…
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The City Makes its Own Collage
I’m a big fan of collage in its many forms. By its many forms, I mean traditional collage where people cut things out and past them back together using paper media or manipulating digital images, or even (as in this…
