Museums The Pope Has Put a Horse, a Bearded Man, and a Boy—All Marble Fragments Looted From the Parthenon—on a Trip Back to Greece The Vatican is calling the restitution a "donation." By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023
NFTs Digital Artist Siebren Versteeg Is Debuting a Collection of Time-Based Generative NFTs That Critiques… NFTs The series is dropping on Arsnl Art on March 13. By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023
Museums A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword The campaigners wrote 'This Is Rigged' on the broken glass. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
People Digital Artists Remember the ‘Invincible, Expanded Vision’ of Peter Weibel, the Curator Who Championed High-Tech Art Before It Was Cool The artist, curator, and director of ZKM died last week at age 78. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
Pop Culture ‘The Exhibit’ Recap: The Reality TV Battle Royale to Find the Next Great Artist Launches With a Clash of Egos and a ‘Botticelli Banana’ In the first episode, contestants created work around the theme of gender. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
NFTs Sarah Meyohas’s Pioneering Bitchcoin NFT Is Entering the Centre Pompidou’s Collection in a Landmark Acquisition of Digital Works It will join 17 other NFTs in the French national collection. By Min Chen, Mar 3, 2023
On View Artist Paul Kremer Co-Created His Latest Series of Abstract Floral Paintings With an Unlikely Collaborator: ChatGPT The works will be on view at Library Street Collective through April 26. By Min Chen, Mar 2, 2023
Science & Tech Another Instagram-Famous Photographer Has Owned Up to Using A.I. to Generate Some of His Oddly Ravishing Images Emanuele Boffa admits to using A.I. art generation, in addition to a host of post-production technologies. By Min Chen, Mar 1, 2023
Auctions Props From the Hit Oscar Nominee ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’—Including a $90,000 Raccoon Puppet—Are Up for Auction The auction will benefit charities including the Asian Mental Health Project and Laundry Workers Center. By Min Chen, Feb 27, 2023
Pop Culture See Photographs That Capture the Thrill of Skateboarding in New York City, Shot by Spike Jonze, Atiba Jefferson, and Others The images are compiled in the 10th-anniversary edition of ‘Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography.' By Min Chen, Feb 23, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions Revisit the Dawn of the Digital Age Through These 9 Key Works From LACMA’s Exhibition on Early Computer Art "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age" traces the how technological progress has shaped artistic practice. By Min Chen, Feb 17, 2023
Pop Culture Hip-Hop Chronicler Sacha Jenkins on Curating a New Show to Celebrate the Movement’s Visual Language on Its 50th Anniversary Jenkins co-curated Fotografiska's "Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious" exhibition, on view through May 21. By Min Chen, Feb 16, 2023
Archaeology Thousands of Citizen Scientists Studying LiDAR Maps Have Found 1,000 Prehistoric Burial Mounds Across the Netherlands They also detected Celtic fields, charcoal kilns, and cart tracks. By Min Chen, Feb 10, 2023
People ‘An Addiction I Could Never Shake’: Street Art Pioneer Risk on How He Brought Graffiti From the Street to the Gallery The artist will receive a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award at Art Wynwood. By Min Chen, Feb 9, 2023
Science & Tech Netflix Japan Is Drawing Ire for Using A.I. to Generate the Background Art of Its New Anime Short The streamer says its use of A.I. technology is due to a "labor shortage" in the anime industry. By Min Chen, Feb 7, 2023
