OSCAR MURILLO: PAINTING AS A WELL OF ACCUMULATION

ÓSCAR MURILLO: LA PINTURA COMO POZO DE ACUMULACIÓN

The article profiles Colombian-born artist Oscar Murillo and his expansive, socially-engaged practice. It details his rise to international prominence in the early 2010s with large-scale paintings that incorporate text, textiles, and studio detritus, and highlights his ongoing, collaborative project 'Frequencies,' which involves students from over thirty countries creating works on canvases attached to school desks. The piece also references his major solo exhibitions, including 'El pozo de agua' at kurimanzutto in Mexico City (2026), 'Masas' at WIELS in Brussels (2024), and 'The flooded garden' at Tate Modern (2024).

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time

The Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum at UC Santa Barbara has launched "Tiffany Chung: indelible traces," a mid-career survey of the Vietnamese American artist and UCSB alumna. The exhibition features over 70 works spanning 25 years, including her signature hand-drawn and embroidered maps, video, and sculptural installations. Curated by Orianna Cacchione, the show highlights Chung’s use of cartography to challenge colonial narratives and document the complexities of forced migration, climate crises, and the movement of botanical organisms across continents.

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A missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest surviving copy of the Greek mathematician’s writings, has been rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. The 10th-century parchment, which had been missing for 120 years, contains portions of the treatise 'On the Sphere and the Cylinder' hidden beneath 20th-century illumination. The page was identified by a researcher from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) after being unaccounted for since 1906.

Lost Page of Archimedes Palimpsest Found

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Researchers from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have identified a missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The leaf, identified as page 123, contains geometric diagrams and passages from the mathematician’s treatise on the sphere and the cylinder, which were scrubbed and overwritten by monks with religious texts in the 13th century. The discovery was confirmed by comparing the leaf to 1906 photographs taken by scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg before the manuscript was broken up and partially forged by an art dealer in the 1930s.

Lost Page From Archimedes Palimpsest Reappears In French Museum

A researcher has identified a long-lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th-century manuscript containing copies of the Greek mathematician's treatises. The page, held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, was matched to a leaf documented in 1906 photographs and contains diagrams from "On the Sphere and the Cylinder" on one side and a later-added religious illustration on the other.

‘Tender Hell’ exhibit makes graphic design into autobiography

The Yale School of Art is hosting "Tender Hell," an exhibition showcasing the thesis work of five Master of Fine Arts students in graphic design. The show features the work of Michael Stevens, Amy Fang, David Wonsik Jung, Camille J. Gwise, and Izza Alyssa, who utilize diverse media including collage, metal sculpture, and large-scale grids to explore the intersection of design and personal narrative.

Through PPL exhibit, artists find new meaning in books amid censorship

An exhibition titled "Turn the Page" has opened in the Updike Room at the Providence Public Library, featuring works by artists who transform books into art. Curated by Brown University lecturer Andre Bassuet, the show includes pieces like Iris Wright's wearable "Book Body No. 7: Palimpsest," which addresses censorship and queer erasure, and Michael Ezzell's ongoing "The Junior Classic" series, which repurposes deaccessioned library book pages. The exhibition runs through January 31.