‘Van Gogh’s Life Was Made for a Novelist’: Author Martin Bailey on the Artist’s Mysterious Last Days—and How He Really Died
Many of us know the story about the end of Vincent Van Gogh’s life, and how a mysterious madness ultimately caused…
8 Common Identity Theft Scams
Would you believe that incidents of identity fraud increased by more than 40% from 2019 to 2020? A report created…
A New Museum Is Opening in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Visitors Will Need a Military Escort to Get There
The Korean Demilitarized Zone, a thin strip of land dividing the Korean peninsula on either side of the 38th parallel,…
A 98-Year-Old Widow Sold a $100 Eames Cabinet She Didn’t Even Like for $48,000, a New Auction Record
At 98 years old, Nancy Allen made the difficult decision to leave her longtime home in Franklin, Michigan, to move…
The Complicated Story Behind Jasper Johns’s Dispute With a Cameroonian Teen Over a Drawing of a Knee (It Has a Happy Ending)
Ahead of the opening of his current double retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum…
A Cache of Original Works by Muhammad Ali, Who Turned His Hand to Art Outside the Boxing Ring, Is Hitting the Auction Block
Rare original artworks by Muhammad Ali, the boxer known as the G.O.A.T., or “Greatest of All Time,” are heading to the…
In 1900, This Artist Gazed Into the Future. See How He Imagined the Year 2000 Would Look (Spoiler: It’s Very Inaccurate)
What did artists in turn-of-the-century France imagine life would look like in the year 2000? A series of illustrations by…
Protect Your Personal Documents to Avoid Medical Identity Theft
Personal medical documents are valuable assets. Unfortunately, that means criminals are after those documents, too. Medical documents may contain personally…
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…
Judith Scott Defied Stereotypes About Down Syndrome and Became a Famous Sculptor. A Poignant New Children’s Book Tells Her Story
When Joyce Scott was seven years old, her parents sent her twin sister Judith Scott, who had Down Syndrome, to…
The American Artist Chuck Close, Who Created Larger-Than-Life Photorealist Portraits, Has Died at 81
Chuck Close, whose distinctive, monumental portraits and self-portraits toyed with viewers’ perception, has died of complications from a long illness…
As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan,…
Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9
This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine…
View from The Hill: Barnaby Joyce repudiates Christensen’s COVID misinformation
Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has dissociated himself from the views of his maverick backbencher George Christensen, who on Tuesday flatly…
To enable healing, there’s a more effective way to Close the Gap in employment in remote Australia
Talk of healing, care, and well-being is woven throughout the refreshed Closing the Gap agreement. These things were also central…
The Sistine Chapel (Experience) Is Coming to a City Near You, Letting You See Michelangelo’s Work (Or, Um, Images of It) Up Close
Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Chapel is coming to cities across the U.S. thanks to high-resolution, nearly full-scale reproductions of the artist’s…