Humans
Nine curious colours that shaped the history of art
From purple sea snail milk to arsenic green and a yellow made from urine, we鈥檝e gone to bizarre lengths in our millennia-long quest to create the most vibrant shades
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Environment
Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures
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Technology
Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art
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Humans
Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts
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Environment
The world’s first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut
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Humans
The cast goes ape in a stage adaptation of a Will Self novel
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Technology
Inside the cryptic world of UK computer art pioneer Paul Brown
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Humans
Neanderthals made the oldest cave art in the world
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Data as Culture: Humour and absurdity stalk the internet
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Technology
Art history AI sees links between hundreds of years of paintings
A machine learning system that can spot connections between painting styles from the last several hundred years could teach art historians something new
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Health
It’s never too late to get a tattoo, an implant 鈥� or new senses
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Physics
Painter, painter of the wall, what’s the fairest colour of all?
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Humans
Only great work can really justify sci-art collaborations
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Earth
Cocktail umbrellas can save Earth from the Anthropocene
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