Construction Workers Discovered a Mysterious Statue of Hercules Buried Deep in a Roman Sewer
Construction workers cleaning and repairing a 100-year-old sewer in Rome unearthed a life-size marble sculpture of a man dressed as…
An extraordinary comeback for Brazil’s Lula sees a new ‘pink tide’ take shape in Latin America
Political analysts said Lula’s victory marked the most symbolic shift in a political movement that has seen the region’s right-wing…
Firefighters Contained a Blaze That Broke Out at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
Don’t worry—the giant blue whale is safe. But there was a bit of a scare at New York’s American Museum…
A New York Exhibition on the Salem Witch Trials Explores the Legacy of the Dark Historical Chapter on the Descendants of the Accused
Magic is afoot at the New-York Historical Society, where a new exhibition revisits a dark chapter in U.S. history: the…
‘With the Wrong Prints, Your House Could Look Like a Dentist’s Office’: Collector Ralph DeLuca Shares His Insider Tips at the IFPDA Fair
It was the day before the VIP preview of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair when I cold called art…
A Painting Nearly Destroyed in the Beirut Blast of 2020 Has Been Identified as a Long-Lost Artemisia Gentileschi—and Is Now Undergoing Restoration
The painting at Beirut’s Sursock Palace was lucky to survive the explosion in August 2020, which killed more than 200…
Paula Cooper Is Now Representing the Estate of Jay DeFeo, the Still-Overlooked Artist Who Did Much More Than ‘The Rose’
Paula Cooper Gallery will now handle the estate of the late Abstract Expressionist artist Jay DeFeo, representing the Jay DeFeo…
It Took Eight Years, an Army of Engineers, and 1,600 Pounds of Chains to Bring Artist Charles Gaines’s Profound Meditation on America to Life. Now, It’s Here
Charles Gaines has unveiled his ambitious public art piece Moving Chains on New York’s Governors Island. All it took was…
Artists Unfurled Red Banners From the Guggenheim Rotunda to Support the Iran Women’s Protest Movement
An artist collective staged a protest at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum over the weekend, dramatically unfurling a dozen blood…
Peter Schjeldahl, the Beloved Poet Turned ‘New Yorker’ Art Critic, Has Died at Age 80
Esteemed art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl died today at his home in Bovina, New York, at the age of…
Dow closes up 550 points, Nasdaq pops more than 3% as strong bank earnings boost volatile market
Stocks rose sharply on Monday as key earnings reports eased some of investors’ fears and oversold tech names enjoyed a…
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…