Ashley Busby

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The Art of Connoisseurship: A Lost Tool in Authentication

In satirist James Gillray’s 1801 illustration A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, the expert’s body is a stand-in for his skill. His…

Marc Vaux (1895-1971), Bal costumé pour les 30 ans de la Galerie B. Weill (Berthe Weill assise au centre, en smoking), 13 décembre 1931. Collection Marianne Le Morvan, don de Jeanine Warnod
Berthe Weill: The Mother of Modernism

In October 1900, a 19-year-old Picasso first arrived in Paris…

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896
The Dark Arts: Gothic Modernism

With its origins in late Medieval art and religious culture, the word “Gothic” conjures the dark, the mysterious, or the otherworldly. A international exhibition, Gothic Modern: From Darkness…

81 x 110 cm sections of the real (left) and replica (right) Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952 (210 x 486.8 cm, National Gallery of Australia).
Beyond the Basics: AI and Art Authentication

In a talk at TEDx Nuremberg in July 2022, Dr. Carina Popovici posed the question, “Can AI detect…