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Politics

As Pope Francis Makes a Formal Apology to Indigenous Canadians, Demands Mount for the Return of Objects in the Vatican Museums

On Monday, Pope Francis begged forgiveness for the Catholic Church's role in the disappearance of 10,000 Indigenous children.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 25, 2022

Art Fairs

‘Our Idea Here in Ibiza Is to Mix Business and Pleasure’: A New Island Art Fair Woos Visitors With Evening Hours and a Resident D.J.

The Ibiza art fair CAN welcomed 36 galleries from 13 countries.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 19, 2022

Crime

Officials in Ibiza Seized a $460,000 Picasso Sketch That a Passenger Tried to Pass Off as a Second-Rate Print

The suspect had a fake receipt that stated the work was worth a little over $1,500.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 19, 2022

Art History

An X-Ray Uncovered What May Be Van Gogh’s First-Ever Self-Portrait Beneath a Modest Painting of a Peasant Woman

Scholars will now to try carefully disentangle the images from one another.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 14, 2022

NFTs

Screen Time Well Spent? Meet 6 Teenage NFT Superstars Whose Names—and Eye-Popping Prices—You Need to Know

These artists suggests that a cultural shift is distinctly underway.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 14, 2022

NFTs

How a Goblin-Themed NFT Inspired a Viral Online Forum for Crypto Crash Victims to Literally Just Scream in Fury

Users are posting their own screeches, moans, and wails as a way to cope.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 13, 2022

NFTs

A Collector Spent $104,000 on an NFT of a Leonardo Painting That May Have Been Forged. So What’s the NFT Really Worth?

The NFT of 'La Bella Principessa' consists of a 500 million-pixel hologram encased in crystal.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 13, 2022

People

Matt King, Artist and Visionary Cofounder of Immersive Art Giant Meow Wolf, Has Died at 37

No further details of his death have been made public, though Meow Wolf described it as “sudden.”

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 12, 2022

Art Fairs

Here Are the 156 Galleries Participating in Paris+, Art Basel’s First Fair in the French Capital

The new event displaced the French fair FIAC from its longtime home in the Grand Palais earlier this year.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 12, 2022

NFTs

Italy Instructs Museums to Halt Contracts With NFT Companies, Citing ‘Unregulated’ Terms That Could Affect the Country’s Cultural Heritage

The move comes after the Uffizi revealed that a tech company took the vast majority of proceeds from the NFT of a Michelangelo masterpiece.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 11, 2022

NFTs

A Crypto Hedge Fund Has Moved NFTs Worth Millions to a Single Wallet, Prompting Speculation of a Bankruptcy-Induced Fire Sale

Three Arrows Capital, a massive cryptocurrency hedge fund that went bust in June, seems to be consolidating its NFT assets.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 11, 2022

Museums

A German Museum Removes Damien Hirst’s Dead-Fly Installation, Saying It Wasn’t Aware Insects Were Covered by State’s Animal Welfare Act

PETA, which also filed a complaint against the museum, is angry because Damien Hirst would, and clearly has, hurt a fly. Lots of them.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 8, 2022

Law

To Criticize ‘Excessive’ Copyright Protection, a Law Professor Minted NFTs of a Warhol Work That’s Now the Subject of a Supreme Court Case

American law professor Brian L. Frye recently minted a collection of 16 NFTs based on a contested artwork by Andy Warhol.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 7, 2022

Science & Tech

A New VR App Lets Users Experience Five of the World’s Long-Lost Stolen Masterpieces, Including Works by Caravaggio and Manet

Paintings by some of the famous artists in history are getting a second life.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 7, 2022

Style

In Pictures: Dior Pays Homage to Ukrainian Folklore and Artist Olesia Trofymenko in New Haute Couture Collection Unveiled in Paris

The French fashion house's creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, was inspired by an exhibition she saw in Rome.

By Dorian Batycka, Jul 6, 2022

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As Pope Francis Makes a Formal Apology to Indigenous Canadians, Demands Mount for the Return of Objects in the Vatican Museums

‘Our Idea Here in Ibiza Is to Mix Business and Pleasure’: A New Island Art Fair Woos Visitors With Evening Hours and a Resident D.J.

Officials in Ibiza Seized a $460,000 Picasso Sketch That a Passenger Tried to Pass Off as a Second-Rate Print

An X-Ray Uncovered What May Be Van Gogh’s First-Ever Self-Portrait Beneath a Modest Painting of a Peasant Woman

Screen Time Well Spent? Meet 6 Teenage NFT Superstars Whose Names—and Eye-Popping Prices—You Need to Know

How a Goblin-Themed NFT Inspired a Viral Online Forum for Crypto Crash Victims to Literally Just Scream in Fury

A Collector Spent $104,000 on an NFT of a Leonardo Painting That May Have Been Forged. So What’s the NFT Really Worth?

Matt King, Artist and Visionary Cofounder of Immersive Art Giant Meow Wolf, Has Died at 37

Here Are the 156 Galleries Participating in Paris+, Art Basel’s First Fair in the French Capital

Italy Instructs Museums to Halt Contracts With NFT Companies, Citing ‘Unregulated’ Terms That Could Affect the Country’s Cultural Heritage

A Crypto Hedge Fund Has Moved NFTs Worth Millions to a Single Wallet, Prompting Speculation of a Bankruptcy-Induced Fire Sale

A German Museum Removes Damien Hirst’s Dead-Fly Installation, Saying It Wasn’t Aware Insects Were Covered by State’s Animal Welfare Act

To Criticize ‘Excessive’ Copyright Protection, a Law Professor Minted NFTs of a Warhol Work That’s Now the Subject of a Supreme Court Case

A New VR App Lets Users Experience Five of the World’s Long-Lost Stolen Masterpieces, Including Works by Caravaggio and Manet

In Pictures: Dior Pays Homage to Ukrainian Folklore and Artist Olesia Trofymenko in New Haute Couture Collection Unveiled in Paris

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