How a New Class of Investors Driven by Nostalgia—and Flush With Cash—Shot the Video Game Market Into High Orbit
Since last July, the record for the world’s most expensive video game has been broken six times, skyrocketing from $114,000 for…
7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Pfizer from Poland directed to young super spreaders
People aged 20-39, who were identified by the Doherty Institute modelling as super spreaders of COVID, will be targeted for…
Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions
With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities…
A brief history of asylum seekers at the Olympics — and why they are sometimes misunderstood
The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo this week after her Olympics were over, bound not for her home country,…
A New Graphic Novel Tells the Origin Stories of the Superheroes of Feminist Art History—See Images Here
A new graphic novel about four of the leading figures in feminist art history does more than celebrate the legacies…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Festival on Art and Disability to a Course on the Legacy of the Great Migration
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health…
After a Wave of Protest Against Its Deaccessioning Scheme, the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art Has Halted Its Plans
Two years ago, the Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, California, announced plans to sell off the bulk of its…
Labor gains clear Newspoll lead during Sydney lockdown, but will the economy save the Coalition?
This week’s Newspoll, conducted July 14-17 from a sample of 1,506, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, a two-point gain for…
Do you answer emails outside work hours? Do you send them? New research shows how dangerous this can be
What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening? Perhaps something urgent pops up, we are…
Editors’ Picks: 9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Show of Cringeworthy Art to a Christie’s Conference on NFTs
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health…
First Nations people urgently need to get vaccinated, but are not being consulted on the rollout strategy
This year, just five cases of COVID-19 have been recorded among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. This…
‘The stars aligned’: Ash Barty’s Wimbledon win is an historic moment for Indigenous people and women in sport
Over the weekend in London, the stars aligned in the most remarkable way. On the 50th anniversary of Evonne Goolagong…