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fromOpen Culture
4 weeks ago

Roman Statues Weren't White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

One tenet of classical idealism is the idea that Roman and Greek statuary embodied an ideal of pure whiteness-a misconception modern sculptors perpetuated for hundreds of years by making busts and statues in polished white marble. But the truth is that both Greek statues and their Roman counterparts were originally brightly painted in riotous color.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut's Warriors March Toward Belonging

Rupy C. Tut creates warrior characters navigating displacement through metaphorical visual language, using handmade pigments with assigned emotional meanings to build symbolic continuity across her practice.
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

colorful crystals show how they naturally grow within a garden of glass petri dishes

Crystal Garden: Seasons displays colorful crystals growing in glass Petri dishes, forming seasonally themed mineral landscapes through controlled setup and natural crystallization.
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