Jun 13, 2022 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Ancient art worth $5 million was destroyed at the Dallas Museum of Art by a man who was “mad at his girl” and decided to take it out on the irreplaceable artifacts. Brian Hernandez broke into the museum late Wednesday night, smashing through a glass door with a metal...
Jun 6, 2022 | Art, Culture, News & Trending
The Cosquer cavern is being eaten away by sea level rise and pollution, and diver-archaeologists are racing the tide. Henri Cosquer knew the risks of cave diving when he explored a long cavity cut into the limestone cliffs near the city of Marseille, on the...
May 30, 2022 | Art, Culture, Museums, News & Trending
Looty: a digital restitution project is making NFTs from stolen art while museums drag their feet about returning it. Despite the name, the creators of Looty maintain that their work is entirely legal. They visit museums displaying art stolen from Africa, use phones...
May 23, 2022 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
The Macklowe collection, the artwork at the center of a high-profile divorce case, has sold at auction for just shy of $1 billion. Harry and Linda Macklowe married in 1959, and for nearly 60 years lived an extremely affluent lifestyle together. They had a $72 million...
May 16, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
A thrift shop find, by someone who knew what to look for, has turned out to be a marble sculpture lost in WWII. Drusus Germanicus was a Roman general who lived approximately 2000 years ago. Laura Young is an art collector and antique dealer in Austin, Texas today....
May 9, 2022 | Art, News & Trending
3D modeling reveals Native American cave art in a secret cave in Alabama, thought to be over a thousand years old. The cave, which is unidentified to protect it from vandals and the well-meaning curious, was found in 1998. Radiocarbon dating on items found within have...
