President Biden Bans New Oil and Gas Drilling at a UNESCO World Heritage Site in New Mexico to Preserve Archaeological Ruins
The Biden administration is banning new oil and gas drilling for the next 20 years at New Mexico’s Chaco Culture…
After Five Years of Renovations—and Months of Labor Negotiations With Staff—New York’s Hispanic Society Finally Reopens
For over five-and-a-half years, the galleries at New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library have been closed for renovations, its…
Protect Your Personal Documents to Avoid Medical Identity Theft
Personal medical documents are valuable assets. Unfortunately, that means criminals are after those documents, too. Medical documents may contain personally…
How a New Class of Investors Driven by Nostalgia—and Flush With Cash—Shot the Video Game Market Into High Orbit
Since last July, the record for the world’s most expensive video game has been broken six times, skyrocketing from $114,000 for…
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…
Organizers of an Unauthorized Banksy Show Will Issue Refunds After Visitors Complain There Aren’t Enough Real Banksys in It
An unauthorized Banksy exhibition in Seoul has come under fire from visitors disappointed that the vast majority of the works…
Three Amoako Boafo Paintings Were Just Launched Into Space Aboard Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Ship
Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo is headed for the stars. And no, we’re not talking about his unbelievable market. This morning,…
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…
In a Quest to Quash Overcrowding, Venice Is Set to Become the First City in the World to Charge Day-Trippers an Entry Fee
Tourists looking to make a day trip to La Serenissima will soon be hit with a new tax. Lawmakers have…
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…
Two Paintings by Ireland’s Foremost Impressionist, Found Buried in an Ohio Storage Unit, Could Fetch $60,000 at Auction
An Ohio family got more than they bargained for when they consigned their parents’ estate to auction. In the back…
Best Friends Forever: Archaeologists Have Exhumed Two Hugging Skeletons at an Ancient Burial Site in China
Archaeologists in China have discovered a rare double burial, or “lovers’ tomb,” featuring the skeletons of a man and woman…