Inside Art: A Sparkling Skull, Shrouded in Mystery
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Here are the most popular theories making the rounds on the sale of Damien Hirstâs diamond-encrusted skull.
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French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris's best-known equestrian statues.
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Adam Striegel, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Pittsburgh, went on a field trip this past spring to study rocks. This week, Striegel revels in the fame that comes with discovering the skull of a
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The gift of more than $10 million, from a yet unnamed corporation, is likely to stir some excitement in the art world.
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Christopher Conte turns machined metal, faux bone and vintage machinery into bizarrely beautiful works of biomechanical art.
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The work unfolding within the curved white walls of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is as engrossing as the art displayed on them.
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A scientific team that had been hoping to reconstruct the features of the great Italian poet Petrarch by digging up his bones has confirmed that the skull found in his tomb is not his.
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The intuitive scholar faces the hard evidence from the electron microscope.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.
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Among the most important tools for understanding the brain are imaging technologies that take pictures inside the skull by scanning the head.
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Real and mythological creatures mingle in the strange looking-glass world of two new museum exhibitions.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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The heady show of African art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is a joy to the eye. But more important, it introduces us to an Africa and an Islam we don't know.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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It is no secret that the art market has become drunk with money lately, but $100 million for a diamond skull by the artist Damien Hirst? Even Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires might think twice.
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Art experts are certain that a picture discovered in the warehouse of Berlin's Gealdegalerie is of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart painted a year before he died.