Word: artworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red) are more or less transparent to infrared light. By looking through these layers, art historians can catch glimpses of the artist's original handiwork: rough sketches, repaintings and the occasional erasure. Other techniques, notably X-ray analysis, had been used in the past. The major advantage of using a computer with...
...students, however, caused extensive damage in the living room, smashing artwork and pottery, Gregg said...
Last December a state superior court ruled that the paintings could be taken down. But house speaker Joseph King believes the artwork deserves one more chance to win over the public. The murals will go on display until Sept. 29, when a final decision will be made about their fate...
...Beverly Hills, ferreting out such choice items as receipts from Cartier or cocktail napkins from the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge. He then packages the debris in a clear plastic bag, slaps on a pink and green Beverly Hills Trash label and charges $5 for each bag-cum-artwork...
...auction last week at Sotheby's in New York City. But they never made it to the block. Last week Sotheby's not only withdrew the tusks from sale but promised to stop dealing in elephant tusks or any jewelry, furniture or artwork containing ivory that is less than 50 years old. The change of heart was inspired by an outcry that began soon after the tusks appeared in Sotheby's catalog. Clients and environmentalists said the sale would encourage poachers who are wiping out Africa's elephant herds. In a half-page ad in the New York Times...