A Star Is Born—And the James Webb Telescope Captured It in Stunning Detail
In a stunning shot taken by the new James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a new view of the…
‘I Had Never Seen Anything Like It Before’: Steve Martin on Becoming One of the Top Collectors of Australian Indigenous Art
Steve Martin has been back in the headlines of late, thanks to his leading role in the hit Hulu comedy…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Derrick Adams’s Unicorn Playground to Kiki Kogelnik’s Portraits
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
In Marfa, an Art Destination With Few Artist Residencies, One Curator Is Turning a Historic Home Into a Hub for Creatives
Add this one to your bucket list, artists: Brite Force, a new invitation-only artist residency, has opened in Marfa, one…
Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar, From a Gallery for Un-Instagrammable Art to a Curators’ Talk on the Term ‘Latinx’
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Artist Michelle Stuart on Why Her Decades-Long Interventions Into the Earth Are More Relevant Than Ever
If you enter Michelle Stuart’s current New York solo show, “The Imprints of Time, 1969–2021,” expecting to see Land Art,…
‘How Do I Get Into This Art World?’: Actress Alia Shawkat on Coming Out as an Artist at the Spring Break Art Fair
Search Party star Alia Shawkat is spending this coming weekend performing for a live audience—but instead of acting, she will…
Here Is Your Go-To Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place in and Around Los Angeles During Frieze Week
Back in 2020, Frieze Los Angeles staged its sophomore edition under the shadow of a looming pandemic, the star-studded crowds…
We Broke Down the 2022 Oscar Nominees Where Art Plays a Role. Here’s What We Found
This year’s Oscar nominees are light on films related to the visual arts, with perhaps the strongest tie to the…
The Most Important Archaeological Discoveries of 2021, From Unknown Dead Sea Scrolls to Middle Eastern Cattle Cults
Every year, we delve back through our coverage to find the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the year, whether by…
Archaeologists Just Discovered the World’s Oldest Jewelry: This Set of 150,000-Year-Old Snail-Shell Beads in Morocco
In a cave in the western Morocco desert, archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest jewelry: a set of shell beads dated…
After Six Decades, Judy Chicago Is Finally Getting Her First Retrospective (and ‘The Dinner Party’ Isn’t in It)
`If there’s one takeaway from Judy Chicago’s first-ever retrospective, currently on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco,…
New Archaeological Find in Utah Suggests Humans Have Been Using Tobacco Since the Ice Age
Humankind’s addiction to tobacco runs deep: Archaeologists in Utah have discovered what appears to be the earliest known use of…
The Oldest Human Footprints in North America Could Redefine Prehistory as We Know It—and It’s All Thanks to These Tiny Seeds
New data on prehistoric footprints suggest they are the earliest ever found in North America, dating to 23,000 years ago—thousands…
Thousands of Years Before the Pyramids, Neolithic Peoples Were Carving Camels Into Saudi Arabia’s Rocky Desert
Archaeologists were shocked to discover that a series of camels carved into desert rock faces in northwestern Saudi Arabia are…
Editors’ Picks: 7 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Sotheby’s Celebrating Black Jewelry Designers to a Screening of a Rare Beat Film
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Three Amoako Boafo Paintings Were Just Launched Into Space Aboard Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Ship
Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo is headed for the stars. And no, we’re not talking about his unbelievable market. This morning,…
See the 12 Wildest Art Installations at This Year’s Burning Man, From a Life-Size Flying Whale to a Robot Hand
The Burning Man gathering, which brings tens of thousands of people to Nevada’s remote Black Rock Desert each year, is officially underway…