the first carbon-positive hotel in the U.S.
domus - In Denver, construction works have begun on the Populus hotel, which is inspired by the aspen trees of Colorado and will filter the atmosphere from carbon dioxide. - read more ...
Would you buy a work of art created by artificial intelligence?
domus - Are computers capable of creating art, will they ever be? In the meantime, examples of artificial art have increased considerably since the last Biennale. We talked about this with Luca Gambardella, who...
AI Can Help Reconstruct Ancient Texts — With Stunning Accuracy
Hyperallergic - A new deep neural network could help historians restore ancient inscriptions, identify their original location, and date them with impressive accuracy. Named Ithaca and developed by DeepMind, a ...
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy: The private life of a masterpiece
BBC - Record number of visitors queued outside the National Gallery in January 1922, despite the drizzly conditions, to see a single painting: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy (c 1770). The artwork was bought by ...
How a Network of Fake Art Collectors Used Instagram to Boost a Fictional Artist’s Career—and Make Money in the Process
artnet - Recently, when sorting through emails with offers from galleries, Alex D., an art collector with an interest in emerging artists, came across some images of work by Moritz Kraus, a minimalist painter, ...
Scientists “Digitally Unwrap” Amenhotep I’s Mummy
Hyperallergic - A new CT scan of the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep I, who ruled from 1514 to 1493 BCE during the height of ancient Egyptian civilization, gives us an unusual look at his physical trait...
Foster + Partners new museum is inspired by northern China rocky peaks
domus - The 32,000-square-metres art museum designed by Foster + Partners in Datong, northern China, is part of a new cultural city district, where there are three other major buildings designed as a creative ...
Announced world’s first “Bitcoin City”
Domus - Perfectly circular, as a coin, the city designed by FR-EE will get the necessary power to mining bitcoin from the geothermal energy of Conchagua volcano, in El Salvador. - read more ...
The exoskeletons of Balenciaga’s new campaign
Domus - Im the year that marked fashion – as well as many other areas of culture and entertainment – the long-awaited return to the physical sphere and the catwalks in the presence of the public, Balenciaga see...
pharrell williams & daniel arsham help launch a coalition of NFT creators
designboom - 2021 has been the year of the non-fungible token, but while many artists have been embracing NFTs, others are still on the fence due to concerns over royalties, creator-owned smart contracts, and p...