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Chemistry World October 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Van Gogh's Sunflowers may be wilting in the sun His famed series of Sunflowers paintings may themselves be fading as an international group of scientists has found evidence that a yellow pigment Van Gogh used is changing chemically under sunlight. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2015 Paul Brack |
Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them. |
Chemistry World March 3, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Shedding light on fading reds in Van Gogh's paintings Scientists in Belgium may have found the missing chemical link to explain why these reds are turning white. |
Chemistry World February 15, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Raman reveals Renoir's true colours Scientists have used Raman spectroscopy to show the original colors of a Renoir painting. By identifying a red dye that had been degraded by light they were able to digitally restore a faded background to its former glory. |
Salon.com August 14, 2000 Barry Raine |
The one-eared bandit Big bucks drive the van Gogh accessory business. |
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Philip Robinson |
X-ray vision uncovers hidden self portrait Scientists and art historians in Australia have uncovered a lost work of art by one of the country's most famous artists. But rather than lying neglected in a dusty attic, this work was hidden under nothing more than a layer of paint. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2015 Wei-lun Toh |
A veneer of Vermeer The woman taken in adultery was thought to have been painted by Johann Vermeer before scientific testing revealed it as a forgery. |
Wired July 20, 2009 Julian Smith |
Protect and Preserve: Mobile Art-Conservation Van Helps Save Treasures A team of art conservators have packed their arsenal of high tech gear into a van to minimize moving precious works of art for restoration. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2011 Ned Stafford |
Analytical Techniques Employed in Art Forgery Case The trial of four people accused of running one of the biggest art forgery rings in post-war Germany has begun, with prosecutors expected to rely heavily on science-based testimony to make their case. |
Chemistry World November 6, 2014 Catherine Emma Nicholson |
Science and art: the painted surface This volume shows a global solution to a long-discussed problem: how to get scientists, art historians and conservators working together. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2014 |
The colorful science Chemists and artists have been inspiring each other to more colorful heights for centuries. Philip Ball traces the development of paints and pigments. |
AskMen.com May 30, 2002 Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings Sold The following ten crafts are the paintings that have been sold for the highest amounts at auction. Surely many of these and others could fetch far more anonymously... |
Chemistry World June 23, 2014 |
Conservative innovations Scientists aiming to restore and preserve precious works of art are turning to new techniques using lasers and microemulsions. |
Chemistry World October 20, 2013 David Bradley |
Will the sky fall as Dr says no to strong 'bond' Just how strong are non-covalent interactions that control supramolecular complexes and protein structure? Perhaps not as strong as chemists previously thought, according to UK chemists. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Column: The crucible Did you hear about the McDonald's 'Shrekgate' fiasco? Colorful characters from the Shrek movies adorned drinking glasses being sold in the burger chain's US branches, but sadly the images had been painted with cadmium pigments. |
Chemistry World September 12, 2013 Rowan Frame |
Looking behind Dali's paintings A new technique for assessing the condition of work of arts without taking samples from them has emerged from a research collaboration between conservators, curators and scientists. |
AskMen.com Nick Kennedy |
Investing In The Art Exchange "If you can quickly list more titles produced by Van Halen than Van Gogh, then you probably don't have the background to be a successful art collector." |
Scientific American May 2006 Steve Mirsky |
The Proof Is on the Painting Mixing drinks and art proves to be a poor combination for one Milwaukee museum. So, just how close to the art should people get at museum parties that include snacks and snifters? |
Fast Company February 2011 Linda Tischler |
How David van der Leer Curates the Guggenheim - and Our Cities Assistant curator of architecture and urban studies Guggenheim Museum. |
Smithsonian April 2007 Courtney Jordan |
Artist on the Rise Contemporary artist Maggie Michael shakes up abstract painting by giving control a chance. |
Chemistry World February 15, 2010 Andy Extance |
Reversing attraction shrinks car batteries Transforming the most important attractive force acting between molecules into a repulsive one could enable US scientists to nearly halve the size of lithium-ion batteries. |
Inc. November 1, 2000 Leigh Buchanan |
Assemblies of God Before he could set up a business, the founder of Portable Church Industries faced a more daunting task: inventing an industry... |
Smithsonian July 2007 Cate Lineberry |
For Hire: Fine Art Appraiser Former Sotheby's paintings appraiser Nan Chisholm discusses her career. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Simple substitution cuts solar cell toxicity A cheap chemical used to make bath salts and tofu looks to be the solution to cutting toxic cadmium from a promising type of solar cell. |