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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool

The Art Newspaper

Experts use their specialist knowledge to search for similar inscriptions to help reconstruct these lost words and sentences, but this can take a long time and involves the analysis of hundreds of texts. These texts are often damaged, we usually don’t know where and when they were written,” Sommerschield says.

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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

The Art Newspaper

Take Sougwen Chung, the Chinese Canadian artist and researcher into human-machine collaboration. “I In Mutations of Presence (2021), Chung collaborated with D.O.U.G._4, Builders leverage AI to embrace the artistry of system creation, novel aesthetics and human-machine collaboration.

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

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Museums & Heritage Conservation Churches Funding Share Subscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox.

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Reputed Donatello bust taken into hiding by Slovak government

The Art Newspaper

Herucová, an art historian at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, first came across the bust in a depository while researching the Spiš Museum’s 19th century collection. An authentic Donatello? Not everyone, however, is convinced of the bust’s authenticity. The ministry of culture did not respond to a request for comment.

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‘Research powerhouse’: Abu Dhabi's Zayed National Museum confirms 2025 opening

The Art Newspaper

Researchers have found Qur’anic verses concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on one of its pages. Magee stresses the museum’s aim to become a research powerhouse. The Zayed National Museum Research Fund aims to enrich understanding of the UAE’s cultural and historical legacy.

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A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

The Art Newspaper

When David Aaron gallery first acquired the fossil, which was excavated in 2021-22 on the Skull Creek site in Moffat County, Colorado, it was thought the specimen was a Nanosaurus, considered one of the smallest dinosaurs of the Jurassic period. The donation is permanent and the skeleton is now on long-term view.

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Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective

The Art Newspaper

Thefts Museums & Heritage Recoveries Share Subscribe to The Art Newspaper’s digital newsletter for your daily digest of essential news, views and analysis from the international art world delivered directly to your inbox. With such numbers, it is impossible to have a complete inventory of all the documents.”