Archaeologists have made the shocking discovery of a marble Buddha statue in a temple in the ancient Egyptian port city of Berenice, shedding new light on trade links between India …
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The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic’ dramatizes the effort to evacuate artists from France during World War II. Here’s how it happened in real life
In the early 1950s, heiress Mary Jayne Gold wrote a tender tribute to her friend and colleague Varian Fry. She described the journalist there as a preppi, an ornithologist, a …
2,600-Year-Old Stone Reliefs In Spain Reveal Early Depictions Of An Ancient Dark Civilization
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 …
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, …