Roy Scholten has been interested in birds ever since he can remember. In his 50 Birds series, the Netherlands-based artist and printmaker has created handmade…
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Leeds art installation helps children grapple with fourth spatial dimension
It is unlikely the children clambering over the world’s first 4D climbing frame had any idea they were helping to explore higher dimensional geometry, irregular…
View More Leeds art installation helps children grapple with fourth spatial dimensionMoon Palace: the observatory bus bringing ‘awe and wonder’ to Leeds
John Smeaton is far from a household name, but Abby Dix-Mason believes he should be. “His achievements were amazing,” she said. “He was very modest,…
View More Moon Palace: the observatory bus bringing ‘awe and wonder’ to LeedsLGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth
An LGBTQ+ armed forces charity has backed proposals to erect a statue of the second world war codebreaker Alan Turing on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth…
View More LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinthJust Stop Oil protesters guilty of criminal damage to Van Gogh frame
Two Just Stop Oil activists have been found guilty of causing criminal damage after glueing themselves to the frame of a Vincent van Gogh painting…
View More Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of criminal damage to Van Gogh frame‘It’s as if we found oil’: Tuscan town savours discovery of spa trove
Since she was a child, Martina Canuti has been venturing down the steep hill flanking the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni, known by…
View More ‘It’s as if we found oil’: Tuscan town savours discovery of spa troveAn other-worldly art project: the artists furnishing a Martian house
There is a “Martian guitar” manufactured out of recycled pieces of wood and metal with an amp fashioned from a coffee pot. A surprisingly comfortable…
View More An other-worldly art project: the artists furnishing a Martian houseHow science is uncovering the secrets of Stonehenge
Among the many treasures in the British Museum’s forthcoming Stonehenge exhibition is a collection of carved and polished spherical stones, each about the size of…
View More How science is uncovering the secrets of StonehengeG7 leaders depicted in Mount Recyclemore e-waste sculpture
The seven giant faces loom above the dunes, gazing sombrely over swathes of bright sea thrift towards the ocean. Even before the G7 had sat…
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