A Ragtag Band of Crypto Populists Tried and Failed to Buy the U.S. Constitution in an Epic $43.2 Million Auction Showdown
One of only two privately owned first printings of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday evening for…
Everyone in Your Family Needs to Protect Their Identity
Thinking about credit monitoring shouldn’t stop at protecting your own personal financials. To help keep your family safe, credit and…
A Houston Outsider Art Center Beloved by Dominique de Menil Is Expanding Into an Eight-Acre Campus for Offbeat Creativity
For 40 years, Houston’s Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has been the guardian of experiential art environments in the…
How a Group of Midwestern Museum Docents Wound Up at the Center of a Right-Wing Media Firestorm
Docents, the kindly volunteers who give museum tours to school children, may not seem like a group prone to setting…
A Cryptocurrency Collective Has Been Revealed as the $4 Million Buyer of Martin Shkreli’s Collectible Wu-Tang Clan Album
After disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud in 2017, he was forced to relinquish his assets, including a…
‘The Whole Thing Is an Art Project’: Meow Wolf Cofounders Explain the Grand Plan Behind Their Wildly Popular Immersive Art Universe
Last month marked the opening of Meow Wolf Denver, the third location for the wildly popular immersive art experience company that began…
Why K-12 Schools Are Prime Targets for Cybercriminals
Private companies and large government agencies aren’t the only organizations that need to prioritize cybersecurity. Kindergarten through 12th-grade schools are…
An Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Sketches Reveals That Van Gogh Planned a Sequel to His Famous Painting ‘The Potato Eaters’
Preparatory drawings for an unrealized second version of The Potato Eaters, Vincent van Gogh’s initially reviled early masterpiece, are going on…
Accused of Hampering Research, the National 9/11 Museum in New York Will Ease Requirements for Scholars
In time for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York is easing…
A Controversy Is Brewing in China Over a New Hollywood Film That Suggests the Country Was Behind a Rash of High-Profile Art Heists
With the news that comedic actor Jimmy O. Yang will write the adaptation for Jon M. Chu’s forthcoming film The…
As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight
As the Taliban takes control of the country, Afghanistan has again become an extremely dangerous place to be a woman.…
Why delaying legislation on a Voice to parliament is welcome — it allows more time to get things right
Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt said last week plans to introduce legislation to establish an Indigenous Voice would be…
Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions
With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities…
Podcast with Michelle Grattan: A reprimand for Christensen and Morrison on climate
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where…
Lalibela, an Ethiopian UNESCO World Heritage Site Famed for Its Rock-Cut Churches, Has Been Seized by Military Forces
Military forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have occupied Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ethiopia known for…
Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet
When is a cabinet not a cabinet? When it is really an intergovernmental body that is pretending to be a…
A brief history of asylum seekers at the Olympics — and why they are sometimes misunderstood
The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo this week after her Olympics were over, bound not for her home country,…