For the Culturally Curious. #GoogleartsCulture

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Giving flowers in the 19th century involved a complex code for secret messages. A peach blossom signaled "I am your captive," while a cactus meant "I burn for you." Decode the historical language of flowers here👇 goo.gle/4dMKbrm
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Ever wondered how your brain sees millions of colors from just 4 inks? Introducing “See in CMYK,” a new interactive digital artwork by artist @stefpos with the Exploratorium and Google Arts & Culture Lab
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Ready to see the world in four colors? 1️⃣ Choose your canvas: Upload your photo. 2️⃣ Transform with AI: Watch Gemini map subjects to a library of 4,500 icons. 3️⃣ Play & Tweak: Adjust settings to generate your unique CMYK poster.
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Step into the intersection of art, science, and human perception. Create your own custom poster with "See in CMYK" on Google Arts & Culture: goo.gle/see-in-cmyk
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#OnThisDay in 1819, Gustave Courbet was born. A founder of Realism, he rejected classical subjects to paint the world as he saw it. Defying the French Academy earned him accusations of "dirty painting" but sparked a revolution in modern art. 🎨 goo.gle/4eitqFR
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Dive into the Coral Triangle this #CoralTriangleDay 🌊 The ASEAN region holds 34% of the world's coral reefs, with Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines housing 75% of reef-building corals. Explore these marine ecosystems👇 goo.gle/3PCTMsZ🐠🐢
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#OnThisDay in 1829: English painter John Everett Millais is born. He helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to challenge Victorian art standards. Trace his evolution across 11 works, from sharp focus to the looser handling of his later years goo.gle/43aZdSV👇
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Long before airplanes, two paper-maker brothers asked: what if you could trap a cloud in a bag? ☁️🎈 #OnThisDay in 1783, the Montgolfiers publicly demonstrated the hot air balloon in Annonay, France. 🎨Watercolor, oval, contemporary 🏛️@ScienceMuseum goo.gle/4dIrh6i
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Before it was a daily staple, the bicycle began as a 19th-century "running machine." 🚲 This World Bicycle Day, trace 200 years of personal mobility—from heavy wooden "boneshakers" to modern design icons with Technoseum: goo.gle/4uf43tf
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#OnThisDay in 1902, Marcel Breuer was born 📐 The legendary Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer was a true pioneer of Bauhaus design, famous for shaping how we live and sit today. 👇 Dive into the story here: goo.gle/3RCsof0
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Inviting the UK public to co-author a National Portrait 🎨🇬🇧 Artist @esdevlin has collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a new work, “A National Portrait” - an interactive and collective portrait, on display at @NPGLondon
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“The National Portrait Gallery belongs to us. It’s the largest collection of portraits in the world and its over 220,000 artworks are part of our cultural commons. It is a mirror of us: it reflects who we’ve been and who we are becoming.” – Es Devlin
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🇬🇧 You can co-author this artwork right now (UK residents, 18 ). Take a selfie on the app and if you submit it you will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery - part of the collective portrait Experience it now : goo.gle/national-portrait 🏛️
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Explore Matisse’s ‘Wild Palette’ 🎨 We have collaborated with @SFMOMA for their exhibition, “Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal” to explore the world of Matisse with the help of Google’s advanced video generation model, Veo Step into his world: goo.gle/matisse
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The exhibition also features a short film bringing to life1900-era archival postcards and photographs of Paris’s Grand Palais where “Femme au chapeau” debuted. It transports you directly to the thrilling atmosphere of 1905, exactly where and when the Fauvist movement was born.
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Ready to step inside the canvas? 🖌️✨ Explore the interactive experiment, listen to interpretive insights and experience Matisse’s radical vision a new way. Experience it now: goo.gle/matisse
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