Archaeology & History An Ancient Rock Art Site in Australia, Home to a Million Petroglyphs, Has Been Damaged by Petrochemical Emissions, Scientists Say The earliest Murujuga rock art dates back 40,000 years. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 1, 2023
On View PokĂ©mon as Muse? See Artist Katherine Bernhardt’s Exuberant New Paintings That Channel the Beloved Pocket Monsters It's the artist's first solo show in Hong Kong. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 1, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling a Mother Lode of 37 More NFTs From the Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital This auction follows Sotheby's first sale of 3AC NFTs, which fetched $2.4 million. By Richard Whiddington, May 31, 2023
Art World Damien Hirst’s Colorful Spin Painting of Leonardo DiCaprio Just Raised $1.3 Million for Charity Collector Christian Levett donated the work to be sold at the amfAR gala in Cannes. By Richard Whiddington, May 30, 2023
Art & Tech The World’s First A.I.-Generated Statue, Cobbling Together the Styles of Five Celebrated Sculptors, Has Landed in a Swedish Museum 'The Impossible Statue' cherry-picks the aesthetics of Michelangelo, Rodin, Käthe Kollwitz, Takamura Kotaro, and Augusta Savage. By Richard Whiddington, May 24, 2023
NFTs Photographer Chen Man’s First NFT Series Is a Futuristic Spectacle Featuring a Pregnant Grimes as an A.I. Cyborg The musician is depicted wearing a tattered shirt that reads "X AE A-12 MUSK." By Richard Whiddington, May 24, 2023
Art World In an Unconventional Matchup, the U.K.’s Oldest Cathedral Has Recruited Graffiti Guru Ant Steel for Its Artist-in-Residence Program Steel and other community members will create large-scale works for an exhibition in November. By Richard Whiddington, May 23, 2023
Auctions A 2,000-Year-Old Gold Greek Stater Just Fetched $6 Million at Auction, Making It the Most Expensive Ancient Coin Ever Sold The coin once belonged to the State Hermitage Museum until it was sold off by Joseph Stalin. By Richard Whiddington, May 23, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s First Sale of NFTs From Three Arrows Capital’s Collection Pulled in a Stunning $2.4 Million, Obliterating Estimates A 'Fidenza' went for five times its presale estimate. By Richard Whiddington, May 22, 2023
On View Street Artist and Keith Haring Collaborator Angel Ortiz’s New Graffiti-Inspired Works Bottle the Vibe of 1980s New York. See Them Here Ortiz's latest canvases make up "Ode 2 NYC," now on view at Chase Contemporary. By Richard Whiddington, May 22, 2023
Art Fairs ‘The Dust, the Paint, the Glue’: Artists at NADA New York Embrace Household Materials and Domestic Scenes While Digital Art Recedes The taste-making fair is showing work from 88 exhibitors through May 21. By Richard Whiddington, May 19, 2023
NFTs ‘Gamification Is the Vibe’: How This Web3 Platform Is Turning the NFT Trading Experience Into a Playful Game of Art Theft Stealcam asks its collectors to 'steal' NFTs from each other. By Richard Whiddington, May 18, 2023
Auctions The Codex Sassoon, an Ancient Hebrew Bible, Raked in $33.5 Million at Sotheby’s, Making It One of the Most Valuable Manuscripts Ever Sold The result, though, lands in the lower end of the estimate. By Richard Whiddington, May 17, 2023
NFTs Digital Artist Jack Butcher Is Offering Handmade Prints of His Viral Multimillion-Dollar NFT Collection, ‘Checks’ Platformed by Christie's, the 'Checks Elements' sale includes three print-and-NFT pairs. By Richard Whiddington, May 16, 2023
Art & Tech Baz Luhrmann, a Design Museum, and a Robot Artist Staged an A.I. Art Show Where Sparks—and Machine-Driven Creativity—Flew At Chelsea Factory, the Ai-Da robot painted works based on thousands of crowd-sourced submissions. By Richard Whiddington, May 15, 2023