In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine bitcoin and buy groceries with tether, as $1 is now worth 15 cents
Aerial view of the seafront Manara district near downtown Beirut. Bilwander | Getty Images When Georgio Abou Gebrael first heard…
Is Saudi Arabia Building a Special Museum Just for ‘Salvator Mundi’? A Renowned da Vinci Scholar Says It’s Already in the Works
Next month marks five years since the last time the world saw Salvator Mundi, at Christie’s New York, when it became…
Comic Book Dealers Are Making Six-Figure Sales at New York’s Comic Con, Thanks to the Boom in Film and TV Adaptations
The aisles were packed with costumed fans at the Javits Center for the opening day of New York Comic Con…
The Recently Discovered Wreck of Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Faces Annihilation, an Archeologist Warns
Earlier this year, marine archaeologists made the thrilling identification of the remains of Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship the Endurance, which…
The Comic Book Market Is Red Hot. Here Are the Top 10 Prices of All Time, All Sold in the Past Two Years
Just last month, the so-called “Rocket Copy” of Action Comics No. 1, which introduced the world to Superman, changed hands…
Can Tattoos Be Reproduced in Video Games Without an Artist’s Permission? An Ohio Jury Will Soon Decide
Can a video game depict an athlete’s tattoos without permission from the artist who inked the designs? An Ohio federal…
Editors’ Picks: 10 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andrea Breiling in the Hamptons to Artist-Designed Garbage Trucks in the Streets
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Video game giants had a miserable second quarter as the pandemic gaming boom hits a wall
A gamer plays on Sony’s Playstation 5 console at his home in Seoul. Yelim Lee | AFP via Getty Images…
See the Incredible, Recently Rediscovered Photographs a Young Woman Took During a Trip to Postwar South Korea: ‘These Places Are Gone’
A recently rediscovered trove of historical photographs of South Korea in the mid-1950s has offered a stunning time capsule of…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Andy Warhol’s ‘Chelsea Girls’ to Kesh’s Verdant Videos in Times Square
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Peek Into the Filled-to-the-Brim Studio of Karen Lamassonne as She Celebrates Her First Institutional Surveys in New York and Berlin
Columbian American artist Karen Lamassonne, who rose out of the male-dominated Bogotá and Cali art scenes of the 1970s and…
Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From the Watermill Gala to a Puppet Show Operated by a Crane
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Warhol Film Screening to a Party at the Museum of the City of New York
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
‘It Felt Like an Overwhelming Collapse’: Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach on Why the Overturning of ‘Roe v. Wade’ Made Her Unraveling ‘Rights’ Work Go Viral
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, allowing states to outlaw abortion, many…
New Analog Recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Makes Nearly $2 Million at Auction
Bob Dylan just sold a new one-of-a-kind recording of his hit single “Blowin’ in the Wind” for £1.48 million ($1.77…
New York’s Famed Chelsea Hotel, a Longtime Home to Artists, Becomes the Star of the Show in a Documentary About Its History
In a way, it’s fitting that Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel is less of a documentary film and more…
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Midsummer Dance Party to Cindy Sherman’s Debut at Hauser and Wirth
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
Do You Know Who Designed the Lincoln Memorial Statue? A New Documentary About an Often Forgotten Sculptor Aims to Fix That
You may not know the name Daniel Chester French, but you absolutely know his work. The American Renaissance sculptor designed…