Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five 5th-century stone reliefs of human faces belonging to the ancient Tartessian culture of the 8th and 4th centuries BCE. The two most complete of …
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Cavorting human-duck hybrids, a tribute to a legendary alternative art magazine and other things bordering on art
“What I’m Watching” is a monthly column where I digest art worth seeing, writing worth consuming, and other treats I encounter in my quest to absorb the contemporary cultural moment. …
Tired of royal coronation news? A Maori artist has created a browser plugin that will ‘turn off the Toff’
If you’re tired of reading news about the coronation of King Charles, there’s a new plugin to block out the royal din. It’s called Pikari Mai! and was designed by …
The mystery shippers of New York’s $1.3 billion spring auction, from legendary mega-dealer to Cirque de Soleil founder
Auction season is upon us again. And that’s… normal. We’re back on planet Earth after record sales of $3.2 billion six months ago, where Paul Allen’s treasures skewed the market …
Brian Donnelly, better known as KAWS, was awarded $900,000 in damages this week by a New York court after the artist filed a lawsuit in 2021 accusing a man in …
The Art Gallery of New South Wales today announced Julia Gutman as the winner of the 2023 Archibald Prize for her painting Head in the sky, feet on the ground. …
Uniqlo and a Parisian design agency’s new Splashy t-shirts for the Louvre aim to avoid an ‘obvious representation’ of history
The Louvre in Paris is once again teaming up with Uniqlo to create a new line of t-shirts featuring fragments of writing from works in the museum’s collection. Known as …
On May 3, Nathanial Chastain, former product manager of the largest NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace, OpenSeawas found guilty of breaching confidentiality procedures in order to sell NFTs with inflated profits, …
Minerva Parker Nichols, Frank Wallace Munn Residence, 1890–91, Philadelphia. Photo: Elisabeth Felicella. IN A SIGNIFICANT BREAK from its typical Manhattan-centric provincialism (even more pronounced, then, than it is now), the …
5 artists on the verge of a breakthrough whose work you can see in and around New York this May
With spring in the air and the weather warming up, it’s a great time to get out and visit a few galleries, see some new art, and check out the …