7 Unbelievable and Contentious Takeaways From a New Documentary About ‘Salvator Mundi,’ the $450 Million ‘Lost Leonardo’
On March 5, 2014—less than a week after its founding—Artnet News published a short item based on a New York…
Sick of Immersive Van Gogh Already? Three Separate Companies Are Launching Competing Immersive Monet Experiences
Get ready for the Claude Monet experience. Or rather, the Claude Monet experiences. Not one, not two, but three separate…
The Sistine Chapel (Experience) Is Coming to a City Near You, Letting You See Michelangelo’s Work (Or, Um, Images of It) Up Close
Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Chapel is coming to cities across the U.S. thanks to high-resolution, nearly full-scale reproductions of the artist’s…
As Part of a $4.5 Billion Oxycontin Settlement, the Sackler Family Has Promised Not to Lend Its Name to Museums for Nine Years
The highly contested Purdue Pharma settlement over the prescription painkiller OxyContin is one step closer to being finalized, as 15…
Families Living Near Notre Dame Are Suing Paris For Allegedly Downplaying Lead Pollution That Resulted From the 2019 Blaze
Families whose children lived in or attended school in the neighborhood surrounding the Notre Dame cathedral have teamed up with…
Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change
CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer…
Airbnb Will Offer Overnight Stays at the First Home Legendary Architect Antoni Gaudí Ever Designed for Just $1
For the first time ever, members of the public will have a chance to spend a night in the first…
Here Are the 14 Most Expensive NFTs Sold to Date, From Beeple to Mad Dog Jones and Beyond
In March, Artnet News published a list of the most expensive NFT artworks ever sold, topped by Beeple’s $69 million sale…
In Pictures: See a Starfish Brooch by Salvador Dalí and Other Glittering Works From the Museum of Natural History’s Surreal Jewelry Show
Last week marked the long-awaited reopening of the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Among the many upgrades…
Notre Dame Raised Almost $1 Billion After Its Devastating Fire—But Now, the Church Says It Needs More
If there’s any restoration project in the world that should be flush with cash, you would think it would be Notre…
A Napa Wine Family Has Given the Smithsonian’s American History Museum a $4 Million Gift to Hire a Food and Drink Curator
The wine-making Winiarski family, who founded Napa Valley’s Stag Leap Wine Cellars, just gave the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History $4…
G7 showed that post-Trump, the world has shifted
What a difference a year makes in international diplomacy. A year ago, then-US President Donald Trump was obliged to abandon…
‘I Have No Other Choice’: Holocaust Survivor Relinquishes Her Claim to a Looted Camille Pissarro Painting
Eighty years after Nazis stole La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), a Camille Pissarro painting, from the parents of Léone…
Would You Like to Adopt a Gargoyle? Notre Dame Is Raising Funds to Restore Individual Artworks Damaged in the 2019 Fire
More than two years after a fire nearly destroyed Paris’s beloved Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic site is still rebuilding.…