Weird.
1: there is a thing called the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2: they took time to run statistical analyses of great works of literature
3: they found fractals. And in the case of a number of stream-of-consciousness novels (and the Bible), they found really complex fractals-within-fractals structures.
So, um, that happened.
The Ghiberti panels are fakes!
But don't worry. They're high-quality replicas of the centuries-old masterpiece, and the originals are going to go indoors for display. These are Ghiberti's first bronze doors, the ones he won the contest to make. The later doors for another side of the baptistry--the so-called Gates of Paradise--were replaced and restored years ago.
Amalia Ulman
I don't have an Instagram account or follow anything on Instagram, so I just learned of Amalia Ulman and her long-term "Excellences and Perfections" project (for some reason referred to as a "hoax," as if pretty much ALL social media isn't a projected identity). But a number of museums, including the Tate Modern, are showing it for non-Insta-folks like me.
"A different kind of canon"
In my English class we've been dealing with issues of canon. Today a friend sent me this piece about the artistic canon, AIDS, and black bodies. It's a powerful essay about really important art.
Sometimes annotation can be really funny
New York Times columnist David Brooks writes a strange column about art and beauty. And then Artnet contributor Ben Davis adds his own comments. The result is really funny.
It's hard out there for an art forger
This essay explains how making paintings that look exactly like other paintings may be the simplest part of forging art.
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