Sarah Biffin, the Celebrated Victorian Miniaturist Born Without Hands, Is Now Receiving Her First Major Show in 100 Years
For the first time in nearly 100 years, Sarah Biffin, a Victorian painter who achieved artistic greatness despite being born…
Yale Replaces Racist Stained-Glass Window, Smashed by University Worker in 2016, With New Commissions by Faith Ringgold and Barbara Earl Thomas
Six years after a Yale University kitchen worker dramatically smashed a stained-glass panel depicting two enslaved African Americans, the New…
At Age 94, Op Artist Julio Le Parc Continues to Work Every Day in His Paris Studio of Enchanting Colors. See It Here
At the age of 94, Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, a giant of the Kinetic and Op Art movements, is…
Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk — here’s a brief history from the app’s founding in 2006 to the present
In this photo illustration, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s archived Twitter account is shown on a phone screen with the…
Singapore’s mortgage costs are rising — but some buyers are shrugging off higher rates
Blocks of condominiums in Singapore. The rising cost of borrowing is unlikely to have a major impact on Singapore’s property…
French Painter Pierre Soulages, Who Dedicated His Career to the Deepest Color Black, Has Died at Age 102
Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black,…
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…
Dow climbs more than 700 points on Friday as Wall Street clinches its best week since June
Stocks climbed on Friday as Wall Street closed a volatile week on a high note despite some disappointing earnings reports.…
The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment
Scholars have discovered part of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’s long-lost star catalogue of the—believed to be the first map…
Tom Hovey, the Illustrator Behind the Delectable ‘Great British Bake Off’ Drawings, on How the Show Has Catapulted His Career
For more than a decade, The Great British Bake Off, or The Great British Baking Show, as it has known…
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…
The American Alliance of Museums Will Require Members to Aim for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Their Workforce
For the first time in 20 years, the American Alliance of Museums will be updating the standards for its member…
Liberal and Conservative Justices Seem Split in the Supreme Court’s Landmark Andy Warhol Copyright Case (and Not in the Way You May Think)
For close to two hours yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s lawsuit against the…
Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Mysterious Stone Roundel in Prague That’s Older Than Stonehenge and the Pyramids
A mysterious, newly discovered stone roundel in Prague is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, built some 7,000 years…
Ceramicist Maxwell Mustardo Draws Inspiration From the Illustrious Former Tenant of His Colorful New Jersey Studio
Before artist Maxwell Mustardo moved into his studio in Quakertown, New Jersey, it was the late ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu‘s workspace.…
What Happens If You Give Someone Your IP Address?
Internet protocol address, aka an IP address, is a unique number assigned to every computer and device that connects to…
What Were the Women in Egon Schiele’s Steamy Portraits Thinking? Novelist Sophie Haydock on How She Brought the Artist’s Muses to Life
Though he died at just 28 from the Spanish Flu in 1918, Egon Schiele remains an enduring figure in art…
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…