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Mechanical engineer develops AI-generated digital masks to restore damaged paintings

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Kachkine, who put several years of research and development into this innovation, says that the production of the masks takes only several hours.

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‘Our biggest heritage crisis’: why Britain’s churches are in danger

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Sussex church may scrap plans to remove historic seating Moves by parishes to replace pews with chairs for “flexibility” anger traditionalists Peter Howell Heritage news 5 November 2020 Historic churches of Naples are at risk from sinkholes Researchers have identified nine buildings that require a “quick response” and a further 57 places of worship (..)

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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Mekondjo’s research delved into the erasure of ancestral cultural practices in Africa—another kind of extraction wrought by European colonialism. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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A century of Robert Rauschenberg: Blurring Boundaries, Redefining Art

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Sold for £688 via Chiswick Auctions (October 2020). The collaboration with Klüver was productive, and together with artist Robert Whitman and engineer Fred Waldhauer, they founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida, until his death in May 2008.

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Sameer Farooq’s library of flatbreads at the Toronto Biennial serves as a map of the city’s diasporic communities

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The artist has been researching flatbreads and tandoors, the community bakeries where they are often baked, in countries around the world since 2020

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Cash as art: the famous artists who have made their mark on banknotes

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Turner has featured on the British £20 note since 2020 Photo: Bank of England / Alexandr Blinov It’s not quite a licence to print money but it’s the next best thing. The Bank of England is inviting the public to suggest images to put on the banknotes. The deadline to submit ideas for the new notes is the end of this month.

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National Trust à la française? French culture minister considers plans for new heritage body based on UK model

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