It is because we are surrounded by these kinds of A.I. images and tools that users are now also trained to be skeptical of everything they see. - The New York Times
The collection’s history stretches as far back as the 1750s, to when the school was called the College of New Jersey, but its earliest art holdings were destroyed in the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Princeton in 1777. - Artnet
Surely, to everyone outside the republic, a pair of cat burglars cleverly robbing a museum in broad daylight and escaping—Beep! Beep!—on mopeds is very nearly the Frenchest thing that could have happened. - The Atlantic
"German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors.” - NPR
Of course, “having been originally built in the fifth century BC, and come through most of that span much the worse for wear, it requires intensive and near-constant maintenance.” - OpenCulture
“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare stones and metals can be sold or melted down, as many experts fear they will be.” - The New York Times
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality has gotten so good that it’s now almost impossible to create parodies.” - Wired
Joanna Koerten was regularly visited by nobles and even royalty; a contemporary poet compared her skill with paper to Michelangelo’s with paint; one of her pieces sold for over twice what Rembrandt got for The Night Watch. Her work is now on view at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts. - Artnet
Sotheby’s said the items to be sold are estimated to draw bids in excess of $50 million. Any extra proceeds not needed to retire the debt and any unsold artworks will be returned to Okada Fine Arts, which is controlled by Okada. - The New York Times
“When you’re in a hurry, the Böcker Agilo carries your heavy treasures,” the ad boasted under a photo of the lift parked outside the Louvre. - The New York Times
There are subtle differences between the images of authoritarians and elected leaders, in body language and other details. Is the leader acting as a quality-control agent, asking questions, studying details? Or surveying his domain in miniature? Is he simply toying with the world? - Washington Post
In the case of $1.7 worth of gold nuggets stolen from the mineralogy gallery at Paris’s Natural History Museum on Sept. 16, a 24-year-old Chinese woman was arrested on September 30 while trying to dispose of almost a kilogram of melted-down gold in Barcelona. - AFP (Yahoo!)
