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The Antikythera Ephebe, the Greek statue that still gazes at something that disappeared two thousand years ago

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi and the Riace bronzes: like them, the Antikythera Ephebe still has its original eyes, made of glass paste, and those eyes are the reason […]

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He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
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Rothéneuf : comment 300 visages sculptés dans la falaise ont créé l’un des sites les plus mystérieux de France

À quelques kilomètres de Saint-Malo, les rochers de Rothéneuf abritent plus de 300 visages, monstres et corsaires figés dans le granit. Œuvre monumentale de l’abbé Fouéré, ce site sculpté à même la falaise intrigue autant qu’il fascine, entre légende locale et énigme artistique. Un lieu unique...

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