Market Wu-Tang Clan Is Releasing a Strictly Limited-Edition Book Featuring Unseen Photos Inside a Custom-Made 400-Pound ‘Chamber’ No more than 36 will be produced in the edition. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Art World A Group of Financial Traders Torched a $95,000 Banksy on Camera to Transform It Into a (Maybe) More Valuable NFT Artwork With the original gone, the virtual asset's value increases, the traders say. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Politics As Biden Reverses Trump Immigration Policies, Foreign Artists Breathe a Sigh of Relief. But Many Hope for Better Than ‘Back to Normal’ “The Democrats’ relationship with immigration is not so great either,” points out artist Pablo Helguera. By Brian Boucher, Mar 4, 2021
Art World That Golden Trump Statue at CPAC? It Was Made in China, and One of the Artists Says He Wasn’t Given Credit Because He’s Mexican The statue was manufactured at the Shijiazhuang D & Z Sculpture Co., according to artist Jose Mauricio Mendoza. By Brian Boucher, Mar 3, 2021
Market The Boy Scouts of America Wants to Sell Dozens of Norman Rockwell Paintings as Part of a Nine-Figure Settlement Fund for Abuse Victims A filing on Monday includes a list of nearly 60 works by the American master among the scouting organization's holdings. By Brian Boucher, Mar 2, 2021
Art World We Regret to Inform You That Grimes Just Sold $5.8 Million Worth of Her NFT Crypto Art in Less Than 20 Minutes The Canadian musician and artist sold her work on Nifty Gateway. By Brian Boucher, Mar 2, 2021
Art World Dr. Seuss Enterprises Is Discontinuing Six Books by the Beloved Children’s Author Due to Racist Imagery "If I Ran the Zoo" is among the titles that will no longer be published. By Brian Boucher, Mar 2, 2021
Art World A Second Missing Jacob Lawrence Painting Turns Up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, This One Hanging in a Nurse’s Apartment The Ukrainian nurse walked over to the Met after they failed to respond to her inquiries. By Brian Boucher, Mar 1, 2021
Archaeology Pompeii Archaeologists Have Unearthed the ‘Lamborghini’ of Chariots, Used to Chauffeur the Elite During Ancient Festivals Erotic scenes of satyrs and nymphs adorn the chariot. By Brian Boucher, Mar 1, 2021
People The Baltimore Museum Walked Back Plans to Sell Art to Fund Equity Initiatives. Now, It’s Raised $1.5 Million the Old-Fashioned Way The museum's divisive director Christopher Bedford explains how its new strategy is not so different from the old one. By Brian Boucher, Feb 26, 2021
Art World It Turns Out That an Ancient Painting Known as ‘Egypt’s Mona Lisa’ Actually Depicts an Extinct Breed of Goose The Australian researcher says it’s the only known documentation of the species. By Brian Boucher, Feb 25, 2021
Art World Artist Juergen Teller Took These Weirdo Photos of Celebrities for ‘W’ Magazine and the Internet Thinks They’re Very Lazy It’s not even the first time people are hating on the German photographer’s covers for that very magazine. By Brian Boucher, Feb 25, 2021
Science & Tech Most People Can’t Tell the Difference Between Art Made by Humans and by AI, a Rather Concerning New Study Says The study was inspired by news of an AI-generated artwork selling at auction for $432,500. By Brian Boucher, Feb 24, 2021
Art World Scientists Just Realized This Incredible Painting of a Kangaroo Is 17,500 Years Old, Making It Australia’s Oldest Known Rock Art Scientists were able to determine the art's age using radiocarbon dating on wasps’ nests that surround the paintings. By Brian Boucher, Feb 23, 2021
Science & Tech Meet the Performance Artist Who’s Using Data From the Mars Rover to Help NASA Figure Out If There Is Life on the Red Planet Sara Schnadt is a key player in NASA's latest mission. Her journey started in an unlikely place. By Brian Boucher, Feb 23, 2021
