New York auction houses predict their spring marquee sales could fetch more than $2.2 billion, despite fears the art market could cool, both for contemporary works judged risky by collectors …
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We knew that the installation of Michael Heizer City would be impossible to visit when we drove through the Nevada desert in the summer of 2016 with a excursion investigating …
Unknown artist, “Owl-Shaped Zun Wine Vessel” (13th-12th centuries BCE), bronze (all images courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art) An ancient Chinese owl ship tragically suffered an accident at the Minneapolis …
Seizure and removal of Tiananmen monument by Hong Kong police only made it bigger, says sculptor
The seizure by Hong Kong police of a sculpture commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre only made the work “bigger and bigger”, according to the artist. “It’s …
Mexican officials ask Dutch auction house to suspend sale of pre-Columbian artifacts
Mexican authorities have condemned the Dutch auction house De Zwaan for its upcoming sale of pre-Columbian objects which, according to the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Anthropology …
Left: Egon Schiele, “Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern” (1912); right: Midjourney AI image generated by Vienna Tourist Board (all images courtesy of Vienna Tourist Board) Of pawan interpretation of the “Kiss” …
From duly bawdy icon to outrageously respectful rock and roll icon, Little Richard was a walking contradiction if there ever was one. Or rather, he was a spinning contradiction, riding …
An artist asked ChatGPT to make him a Memecoin. The result is “TurboToad”, and people are betting millions of dollars on it
In the giant casino that is the internet economy, an artist placed his chips on boxes labeled “ChatGPT” and “meme coin”, and hit the jackpot with a project called TurboToad. …
Using Google Earth Pro, Archaeologists Discover Rare Roman Military Camps in Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists have found three previously unknown Roman military camps in what is now Saudi Arabia, which they believe may have been an undocumented part of a campaign to annex the …
Art Basel has named the 154 galleries that will participate in the second edition of its new Paris+ art fair. Officially titled Paris+ by Art Basel, the event will take …