Art World $45 Million Worth of Art Is Being Held Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life "In our time, to destroy art is much more taboo than destroying the life of people," said artist Andrei Molodkin. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 14, 2024
Art World Koons on the Moon? Artist’s SpaceX Lift Off Delayed A Valentine's Day mission has been thwarted as technical issues blight Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 14, 2024
Archaeology & History Humans Have Been Kissing For Millennia, New Research Shows A Danish husband-and-wife duo say archaeological sources show kissing was happening as early as 2400 B.C.E. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 13, 2024
On View Black History Foregrounded in New Show at London’s Royal Academy Works by a Frank Bowling, Kerry James Marshall, and Lubaina Himid are shown alongside historical paintings a documents that reveal the academy's own historically white bias. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 13, 2024
Museums & Institutions The British Museum Is the Latest Site of Pro-Palestine Protests The protest follows other demonstrations that shutdown MoMA in New York and Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 12, 2024
Museums & Institutions A Monet Painting in Lyon Is the Latest Artwork to Get Souped "In the face of climate emergencies, anguish is legitimate," admitted Lyon's mayor in response to the attack. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 12, 2024
Art World A New Digital Archive Will Preserve Historically Significant Street Art A Banksy mural is among the 5,000 street artworks that will be digitized and made free to view online by Art UK. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 12, 2024
Museums & Institutions An Immersive Van Gogh Show Breaks Attendance Records at the Musée d’Orsay A new V.R. experience will invite museum goers on a night out in Paris with their favorite Impressionist painters. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 9, 2024
Art & Tech New Scanning Technology Reveals a Lost Painting by Pop Artist Pauline Boty The overlooked painter was a larger-than-life pioneer of Pop Art before her tragic death in 1966. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 9, 2024
Archaeology & History An Amateur Metal Detectorist Makes a ‘One in a Billion’ Find 'I had a much higher chance of winning the lottery!' Jonathan Needham said of his ancient discovery. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 8, 2024
Law & Politics A Stolen Van Gogh Painting Worth $6.5 Million Will Go Back on Display The early masterpiece, returned in an Ikea bag, was damaged during the theft but is currently being restored to its former glory. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 8, 2024
Archaeology & History Students Make Major Breakthrough in Use of A.I. to Decipher Ancient Scrolls “This is a complete game-changer,” experts say, as we get one step closer to rediscovering long lost ancient texts. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 7, 2024
Art World Russia Will Not Participate in the 60th Venice Biennale Meanwhile, Ukraine will present "Net Making," a group exhibition of photography and video art. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 7, 2024
Art World Fans Flock to Witness a Single Chord Change in John Cage’s 639-Year-Long Organ Performance The slowest and longest version of Cage's experimental score is set to finish in the year 2640. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 6, 2024
On View A New Show in London Gives Palestinian Artists an Opportunity to ‘Tell Our Own Story’ Since the organizers' proposal for the Venice Biennale was rejected, an unofficial exhibition is in the works. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 6, 2024