People ‘They Are Given a New Life’: Watch Ghanaian Artist El Anatsui Weave Bottle Caps Into His Monumental, Innovative Sculptures As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 26, 2021
Archaeology Archaeologists in Russia Have Uncovered the Copper Age Tomb of an ‘Amber Man’ Painted in Ocher Upon His Death The cache was unearthed on the shores of Europe's second-largest lake. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 26, 2021
Market Damien Hirst’s NFT Initiative, Which Asks Buyers to Choose Between a Digital Token and IRL Art, Has Already Generated $25 Million 'The Currency' is based on a selection of spot paintings, ranked by rarity. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 25, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: This Landmark Museum Show in Virginia Examines How Black Southern Art and Music Inspire One Another The show includes around 140 works of art. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 25, 2021
Art World ‘I Didn’t Want to Fictionalize’: Watch Mary Reid Kelley Explain How Her Eerie Videos Reanimate Forgotten Women’s History As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 19, 2021
Art World A Spectacular Bolt of Lightning Struck the Washington Monument, Temporarily Closing the Famed Obelisk to Visitors No one was hurt in the lightning strike. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 17, 2021
Art World Banksy Confirms He Was Behind a Spree of New Murals That Popped Up in Coastal England Towns Earlier This Week A video posted to the artist's Instagram page confirmed the news. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 13, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions A Major Survey on Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim Is Coming to MoMA—Take a Sneak Peek Here The show will also travel to the Kunsthaus Bern and the Menil Collection. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 13, 2021
Art World ‘If This Doesn’t Touch You, I Have Failed’: Watch Louise Bourgeois Explain How the Unconscious Informs Her Approach to Making Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 12, 2021
Art Fairs Frieze’s Beloved Sculpture Park Is Back in Regent’s Park This September—Get a Sneak Preview of the Whimsical Works Here The show is "a tonic for the mind, body, and soul," curator Clare Lilley said. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 12, 2021
Art World An Artist Who Defended Ai Weiwei Has Resigned From Hong Kong’s Arts Council, Citing ‘Personal Safety’ Chris Chan Kam-shing's resignation came alongside several others, as tensions over a new national security law continue to mount. By Caroline Goldstein, Aug 10, 2021
Art World ‘This Healing Ritual Can Continue’: Watch Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Confront Communal Trauma Through Experiential Art As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 29, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Inside the Italian Futurist Painter Giacomo Balla’s Apartment, and Works From His Long-Awaited Retrospective in Rome Casa Balla, the apartment where the artist and his family lived for 30 years, is a work of art in itself. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 29, 2021
Art World ‘I’ve Always Been a City Girl With a Nature Brain’: Watch Sculptor Wangechi Mutu Weave Worlds Together in Her Sculpture As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 23, 2021
Art World The Louvre and Uffizi Are Threatening to Sue Pornhub for Turning Works by Titian and Courbet Into Hardcore Pornography The museums are not happy with Pornhub's use of their artworks. By Caroline Goldstein, Jul 21, 2021
