A Rare $10 Gold Coin Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Teddy Roosevelt’s Insistence Fetches $1.1 Million at Auction
A rare $10 gold coin designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1907 was auctioned off for $1.14 million at Stack’s…
Budi Tek, One of the World’s Most Influential Patrons of Chinese Art, Has Died at 65
Budiardjo “Budi” Tek, the celebrated Indonesian-Chinese art collector who founded Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, has died from pancreatic cancer. He was 65,…
Editors’ Picks: 8 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Max Colby at Rock Center to Hugh Hayden’s Outdoor Show
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
The ‘Colston Four,’ Who Toppled a Statue of a U.K. Slave Trader Last Year, Have Been Cleared of Criminal Charges
In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests rocked the globe, four activists in Bristol, U.K., helped topple a statue…
‘We Wanted to Unmoor Her From the 1950s’: A Joan Mitchell Retrospective at SFMOMA Shows the Artist as You’ve Never Seen Her Before
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the late Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell is the subject of a major U.S.…
See 10 of the Exhilarating Installations at the Spring/Break Art Show, From a Shrine to Giantesses to One Absurdly Big Ham
Spring/Break Art Show, the upstart cool kid’s fair, kicked off its 10th New York edition—yes, you read that right—in uncharacteristically…
The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits
On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to find success…
See the Colorful, Artist-Designed Bat That Mets Star Pete Alonso Used to Bang Out Another Home Run Derby Win
The first baseman for the New York Mets, Pete Alonso, defended his title as Major League Baseball’s home run derby…
A Painting Bought at a Small Town Dump for $4 Turned Out to Be by David Bowie—and It Just Sold for More Than $87,000
A David Bowie painting that originally sold for just less than $5 at a Canadian landfill has set a new…
Artist Lisa Yuskavage Blasts Instagram, Quitting the Social Media Service After It Censored Her Work (Again)
Painter Lisa Yuskavage, the latest artist to run afoul of Instagram’s community guidelines due to her depictions of female nudity,…
In the Kitchen: Artist Nina Katchadourian on the Enormously Complicated Armenian Soup Recipe She Learned From Her Late Aunt
While many of us continue to work from home, we’re checking in with artists about the creativity they’ve been cooking…
For the First Time, Basquiat’s Family Will Organize a Show of Rarely Seen Works by the Artist From Their Personal Collection
Since his tragic death from an overdose at just 27 years old in 1988, street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has become an…
An Australian Open Tennis Star Stopped Play To Save An Insect
Tennis player Jannik Sinner of Italy was ranked 32nd in the world before the Australian Open, but might now be…
Here’s a side-by-side look at Biden’s Cabinet so far vs. Trump’s debut Cabinet from 2017
Here’s a side-by-side look at President-elect Biden’s Cabinet so far, paired with President Trump’s debut Cabinet from 2017. Between the…
Ranking the 5 big suits against Google and Facebook
Facebook stands to lose the most, but Google is more likely to lose: That’s the consensus of experts Axios asked…
“Faster than people appreciate”: Stanley McChrystal says U.S. running out of time vs. China
Stanley McChrystal, a top retired general and Biden adviser, tells Axios that “China’s military capacity has risen much faster than…
New finding: boosting JobSeeker wouldn’t keep Australians away from paid work
Incentives, the Freakonomics author Steven Levitt once quipped, are the “cornerstone of modern life”. To this I would add: only…
How Apple Just Changed the Entire Industry
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