u/machinarium021

¿Alguien conoce Lev Art Gallery y el circuito de arte al que pertenecen sus artistas? - Investigando a Odette Hamoui Antabi (¿de Dabah?)

Llegó a mis manos un bodegón acrílico de 2005 de esta artista panameña, con etiqueta de catálogo numerada (parece producción sistemática, no piezas sueltas). Logré rastrear una participación en Art Decor de HomeCenter en 2024 y en M.A.D.S Art Gallery (con presencia en Italia y España), pero hay un vacío sobre su trayectoria en los 2000s en Panamá, parece que se movía en un circuito ligado a Lev Art Gallery.

¿Alguien tiene contexto de esa galería, o conoce el trabajo de Odette u otros artistas del mismo círculo (Celine Eskenazi, Daniel Ramón Mizrachi, Raquel Homsany...)? Estoy documentando la pieza como parte de un proyecto personal.

u/machinarium021 — 7 days ago

▲ 22 r/Panama

El mercado de arte en Panamá es inaccesible si no tienes contactos. Cambiemos eso (Art Guild PTY)

Hola a todos. Llevo un rato viendo que el circuito del arte local en Panamá está cerrado para unos pocos: coleccionistas de siempre y artistas con contactos en galerías, museos o el gobierno.

Eso deja a muchos fans del arte fuera, con casi nulas posibilidades de adquirir nuevas piezas o rotar su colección, y por supuesto deja al artista independiente sin una vía clara para vivir de su trabajo.

Por eso quiero armar un espacio digital (Art Guild PTY): un grupo para descubrir nuevos talentos, comprar, vender e intercambiar obras, y ayudarnos entre coleccionistas con dudas de autenticidad o conservación. Todo directo, de persona a persona, sin intermediarios, sin comisiones de galería ni fricciones.

Aclaración importante sobre el alcance:

El grupo está enfocado exclusivamente en piezas de arte (pintura, grabado, escultura, fotolibros), art toys y merch oficial de autor. Quedan fuera otros tipos de coleccionismo como TCGs, numismática o filatelia, ya que para esos segmentos ya existen tiendas y comunidades bien establecidas en el país.

Si esto resuena contigo (seas coleccionista, artista o simplemente alguien que aprecia el arte de autor), deja un comentario o envíame un DM y te comparto la invitación al grupo de WhatsApp.

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u/machinarium021 — 12 days ago

▲ 25 r/kaws

FS KAWS Family 2021

I am a collector based in Panama, I am looking to sell my set for about 850 usd before shipping. There is considerable damage to the box, but the pieces of the set are in mint condition.

If you are in my country we can do a trade if you are interested.

Any offer by dm.

u/machinarium021 — 14 days ago

▲ 76 r/japanart+1 crossposts

That's how I started my collection a while ago

Yatsushi Rokkasen (about 1796 - 1798, fragment of a tryptich) - Chōkōsai Eishō.

Although in some museums like MFA, there are complete copies with better preserved pigments, the paper is usually much more deteriorated than my fragment. It makes me very happy to have started with something like this.

u/machinarium021 — 16 days ago

▲ 1 r/WhatIsThisPainting

Kasumigaseki - Hiroshige I or Hiroshige II?

I acquired this print at an auction at Fuji Arts a few months ago. The item was listed as a work by Hiroshige II, but the more I looked into it, the less certain I became.

That is, until I found a record from Ritsumeikan University which points to a single copy in poor condition documented at the Geneva Museum of Art and History. According to information from this museum, it is a work by Hiroshige I dated between 1815 and 1818. If this is the case, it would be a work from the artist’s formative years or from his first year as an artist.

I have searched several times, and it does not appear in the catalogue raisonné of either artist that I can find online.

u/machinarium021 — 20 days ago

▲ 33 r/japanart+1 crossposts

I need help identifying this work: Kasumigaseki from Hiroshige I or II?

I bought it at an auction a few months ago. When I first bid on it, all I knew was that it was an undocumented Hiroshige II; however, based on information I obtained about a single copy found at the Geneva Museum of Art and History (https://www.mahmah.ch/collection/oeuvres/kasumigaseki-litt-le-poste-de-controle-de-la-brume/e-2011-0911), what I found may actually have been a Hiroshige I from his formative years or early career as an artist.

u/machinarium021 — 21 days ago

▲ 2 r/bioinformaticstools

Zero-shot structural risk scoring for SARS-CoV-2 Spike variants using ESM-2, validated retrospectively on XFG.5.1.7 — open source, feedback welcome

Full disclosure: I built this. Posting because I'd like methodological scrutiny, not because I'm trying to sell anything.

The problem I was trying to address: Most genomic surveillance tools depend on lineage dictionaries that lag behind actual mutation events — you need a named variant before you can score its risk. I wanted something that scores structural risk directly from the sequence, independent of nomenclature.

What it does: Uses ESM-2 (650M) in zero-shot masked-token mode to compute log-likelihood ratios for each mutation in the Spike protein, weighted by biological zone (RBM, RBD, furin cleavage site). No fine-tuning, no training on labeled outbreak data — just the base model's learned structural priors.

Retrospective validation: Ran it against four isolates spanning different periods, including PZ155177 (XFG.5.1.7) five days after its GenBank release (score of 2,280.5 from 69 reliable mutations, with no matching lineage signature in the reference dictionary at the time).

Data source: Runs entirely on NCBI/GenBank data — no GISAID dependency by design (mostly because GISAID never responded to my access request as an independent researcher, which is its own story).

Code (MIT license) and manuscript on Zenodo:

Manuscript: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21381359
Backend: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21380916
Frontend: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21380977
Deployment & MCP Server: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21381037

I know the immediate methodological question is confounding between model uncertainty and genuine biological signal. I'd genuinely like pushback on that, and on the zone-weighting scheme, which is currently somewhat heuristic. This was built independently without a wet lab or institutional affiliation, so outside review is exactly what I'm looking for.