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...
May 2, 2022 | Art, Auctions, Donations, News & Trending
The RBG art collection is up for sale, and like she would have wanted, the proceeds will benefit the Washington National Opera. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, affectionately known to many as the Notorious RBG, was a woman of passion. That passion took her to the Supreme...
Apr 25, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
Damaged by storm, the collection of the Albany Museum of Art is coming home five years later. In the first days of 2017, the Albany Museum of Art lost its roof to the winds of a violent storm that played havoc with most of the Georgia city. For hours, heavy lashing...
Apr 18, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
An art trove found in an abandoned barn by a mechanic may be worth millions of dollars. Jared Whipple heard from a friend of his that there was something odd in a dumpster in an abandoned barn in Watertown, Connecticut. Curious, he went out and found hundreds of...
Apr 11, 2022 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
Xeo Chu is 14, opening a solo London show, and already a darling of the art world, but still ‘just a kid.’ Xeo Chu’s first ever painting was a portrait of his mother, gallery owner Nguyen Thi Thu Suong. “Ears are very difficult,” is all he has to say...
Apr 4, 2022 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending
“Guarding the Art” is a special exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art – one curated entirely by its security team. Some time ago, museum trustee Amy Elias realized that no one spent more time with the art than the guards patrolling the museum. Not the experts, not...
