Art World It’s a Christmas Miracle! An Archaeologist May Have Just Found Jesus’s Childhood Home in Nazareth A group of nuns stumbled upon the site in the 1880s without knowing what they may have found. By Brian Boucher, Dec 7, 2020
Art World A Retired Nurse Loved Visiting This German Museum So Much That She Bequeathed Her Home to It—Much to the Institution’s Surprise The Folkwang Museum in Essen had no idea Jutta Franke's donation was coming. By Brian Boucher, Dec 4, 2020
Art World Yet Another Copycat Monolith Has Appeared, This Time in California. No, Wait—It’s Already Gone Judging by video on a local news site, neither aliens nor John McCracken would be proud of this shoddy monolith. By Brian Boucher, Dec 3, 2020
Art World More Photos Have Emerged from the Massive Rock Art Discovery in the Amazon, and They’re Amazing—See Them Here Who knew that ancient Amazonians bungee jumped? Well, now you do! By Brian Boucher, Dec 3, 2020
Art World ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Has Driven an Unprecedented Surge in Chess Sales. Here Are 13 Classic Artist-Designed Sets to Get Your Fix From ancient Persian craftsmen to Yoko Ono, artists have reinterpreted the game over the ages. By Brian Boucher, Dec 3, 2020
Art World An Audio History of the AIDS Epidemic Will Play All Month Long in New York to Mark the 40-Year History of the Crisis David Wojnarowicz and Larry Kramer are among those whose voices can be heard. By Brian Boucher, Dec 1, 2020
Art World Havana Officials Reached a Historic Agreement With Protesters Over Artistic Freedom. Then Cuba’s President Denounced the Deal The culture minister met with Tania Bruguera and other artists for hours over the weekend. By Brian Boucher, Dec 1, 2020
Art World A Remorseful Young American Has Returned an Ancient Artifact She Stole on Vacation in Italy to Give Her Boyfriend A package with the pilfered stone showed up recently at the National Roman Museum. By Brian Boucher, Dec 1, 2020
Art World A $145 Million Collection of Works by Warhol, Rothko, and Hirst Is at the Center of London’s Largest-Ever Divorce Battle Tatiana Akhmedova accuses her husband and son of conspiring to hide the art from her. By Brian Boucher, Dec 1, 2020
Art World Archaeologists Just Discovered Tens of Thousands of Ultra-Realistic Ancient Rock Paintings in the Colombian Amazon The Colombian territory has been newly opened up to exploration. By Brian Boucher, Nov 30, 2020
Art World The Aspen Art Museum Invited an Artist to Reimagine Its Gift Shop. Now, It’s a Bazaar Selling Fake Teeth and $50,000 Drawings Artist Jonathan Berger took inspiration from offbeat New York City shops that bear the imprint of the owner’s personality. By Brian Boucher, Nov 30, 2020
Art World A Shanghai Gallerist Is Opening a Robot-Filled Production Studio to Help Artists Realize the High-Tech Projects of Their Dreams Will Jung Lee's Miralab foster a Chinese Jeff Koons or Takashi Murakami? By Brian Boucher, Nov 30, 2020
Art World While Installing Her Show at a Canadian Museum, an Artist Discovered a Looted Statue in the Collection. Now, It’s Headed Back to India During her research for an exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Divya Mehra developed suspicions about the Hindu sculpture. By Brian Boucher, Nov 24, 2020
Art World Four Long-Lost Sketches by a Teenage John Constable, Forgotten for 200 Years and Found in a Scrapbook, Are Heading to Auction The drawings were found in a book that was tucked in a family album. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020
Politics In a Landslide Decision, Workers at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Have Become the Latest Major US Museum Staff to Unionize Museums employees across the country have been unionizing in the past several years. By Brian Boucher, Nov 23, 2020