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...paintings, each about the size of a notebook, are tiny treasures of artwork. Despite their small scale, they took months, even years, to complete, and their craftsmanship is impeccable...
...artwork, made with water-based paint and gel, was commisioned last May because the dining hall "needed some color, some pizzazz" after the Fogg Museum took back the tapestry which had been hanging over the mantel until two years ago, said Leverett House Master John Dowling...
...spend their money: sleep it away in the Galactica Suite. For $25,000 a night, guests can slumber in what is billed as the most expensive hotel suite in the world. The six high-tech rooms boast such extravagant features as an aquarium containing a giant stingray, artwork on the walls that can be changed electronically, and heat-detecting switches that turn on lights when a person walks into the room. The 2,500-sq.- ft. silver-and-white suite even comes equipped with a robot named Ursula who acts as a servant...
...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...