You Can Get Your Tarot Cards Read by an Art Witch Channeling the Ghost of Hilma af Klint at the Armory Show
Visitors to New York’s Armory Show, which opened to VIPs today, can catch a glimpse of what the future may…
One of Uruguay’s Most Prominent Artists Is Funding and Building the Country’s First Contemporary Art Museum
Pablo Atchugarry, one of Uruguay’s leading contemporary artists, is planning to open the nation’s first contemporary art museum in the resort…
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…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Judith Scott Defied Stereotypes About Down Syndrome and Became a Famous Sculptor. A Poignant New Children’s Book Tells Her Story
When Joyce Scott was seven years old, her parents sent her twin sister Judith Scott, who had Down Syndrome, to…
Archaeologists in England Unearthed a Long-Lost Monastery Presided Over by a Powerful Anglo-Saxon Queen
Archaeologists from the U.K.’s University of Reading have discovered the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon monastery that was ruled by a…
A New Polish Law Will Make It Practically Impossible to Pursue Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Artworks
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a controversial law reducing the statute of limitations on all challenges to allegedly stolen property, making Nazi-looted art…
As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan,…
George Kennan urged American leadership and patience to counter the Soviets. Instead, the Cold War ensued
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits
On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to find success…
#FreeBritney has many of us wondering: do we have conservatorships in Australia?
News Britney Spears’ father has agreed to step down from her conservatorship might have you wondering how equivalent laws work…
With the release of a terrifying IPCC report, Australia must face its wilful political blindness on climate
I remember the acute frustration of watching one of the US news feeds on September 11, 2001 — 20 years…
The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…