Vatican Museums

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Modeling themselves after British activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion and others  elsewhere who have used similar tactics, activists from Italy's Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) climate crisis action group glued themselves to the Laocoön group of statuary, one of the Vatican...

They used a 33-foot tall scaffold and rig to capture every inch of the Chapel’s frescoes with advanced optics and digital photography. “The team was able to utilize three-dimensional reconstruction software to stitch together seamlessly all 270,000 individual frames to...

Talking about the Guggenheim, its designer, and the conceptual innovation that this architecture has produced is almost a pleonasm. Yet there is one aspect which, though certainly not unprecedented, is underestimated: its shape is a close relative of a the stairway leading to the...