Dr. Gunther von Hagens invented plastination -- the groundbreaking method of preserving anatomical specimens for study. His BODY WORLDS exhibits are a museum sensation.
With the precision and deadly beauty of a mushroom cloud, Luke Jerram’s glass sculpture of HIV evokes both horror and the feeling of appreciating something for aesthetic geometry alone.
The Museum of Natural History in London will return the skeletal remains of 138 indigenous people taken from the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th century, often as curios.
The Wave Organ is an acoustic sculpture that amplifies the sounds of the waves from the bay, creating low, gurgling notes that ebb and flow with the ocean.
Dr. Gunther von Hagens invented plastination -- the groundbreaking method of preserving anatomical specimens for study. His BODY WORLDS exhibits are a museum sensation.
The vocal Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is prohibited from leaving Beijing, but that hasn't stopped him from coordinating the opening of an art exhibit, titled "Ai Weiwei, Absent," in Taiwan.
The vocal Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is prohibited from leaving Beijing, but that hasn't stopped him from coordinating the opening of an art exhibit, titled "Ai Weiwei, Absent," in Taiwan.
This work prepared the way for the discovery of the neutron by Sir James Chadwick and, above all, for the discovery in 1934 by Irene and Frederic Joliot Curie of artificial radioactivity.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Eek! This is how an 18th-century artist depicted fever and ague in an age when today's cures didn't exist. The doctor on the right writes prescriptions to try to keep the monsters at bay.
Searching the site for clues, Dillehays's team was unable to find any non-Moche military artifacts. It could only mean one thing. The Moche had been fighting amongst themselves.
Archaeologists found evidence of enormous rain damage at a Moche site. New building work had been interrupted and torn apart by torrential rain, and artifacts found in the damaged area dated to almost exactly that period.
These artifacts included ear studs and necklaces, nose rings and helmets, many heavily inlaid with gold and precious stones. But it was the pottery that gave the archaeologists their first real insight into Moche life.
The Moche were pioneers of metal working techniques like gilding and early forms of soldering. These skills enabled them to create extraordinarily intricate artifacts.
Tommaso Strinati is high up and looking at the old scary art on the walls of the chapel. He says, ''It's a good thing that all this Baroque work is so unimpressive.
From his research, Tommaso thought there could be frescoes of the Roman artist, Pietro Cavallini, hidden under other inferior paintings. Since Cavallini's greatest works had been destroyed, this would be a huge discovery.
Tommaso Strinati is high up and looking at the old art on the walls of the chapel. He says, ''It's a good thing that all this Baroque work is so unimpressive. Otherwise, we might not have been allowed to scrape it off!''