Tag: Rock

  • We Must Protect South American Rock Art

    Opinion Given the region’s abundant petroglyphs, why are there so few legal protections and only one World Heritage inscription? The Piedra de los Pilones rock art site in Venezuela’s Tacariguaregion (all photos Leonardo Páez/Hyperallergic) In July, the World Heritage Committee meets in Busan, South Korea, to decide which places will be added to the World read more

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  • Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years

    Less than two years after discovering a 51,200-year-old cave painting of a pig on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in what was then declared the oldest known figurative artwork, the same researchers have discovered an even older work. The newly dated work, located on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, is a hand stencil dating to read more

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  • Classics of Rock: Adam Parker Smith’s Whimsical Approach Squeezes The Satire Out of Classical Sculpture – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    At all times, there’s a “nagging voice in my head saying, ‘This might be a disaster.’” Smith grew up far away from all that, in the small Northern California town of Arcata, Population: 18,000. His parents owned a mom-and-pop bicycle shop and lived on an apple orchard. It was by all accounts an idyllic childhood, read more

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