Pop Culture The Andy Warhol Museum Has Unearthed Rare Master Tapes of the Velvet Underground’s Debut Album The recordings were made by the Velvet Underground at Scepter Studios in 1966. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 10, 2022
People Lee Bontecou, the American Artist Who Sculpted the Void, Has Died at Age 91 The artist's dark, abstract constructions straddled sculpture and painting—and made her a star of the 1960s New York art scene. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 9, 2022
NFTs OpenSea’s New Tool Enforces Royalties for NFT Creators. But Some Say It Goes Too Far in Quashing the Competition The tool allows creators to bake a royalty enforcement mechanism into new collections, but blacklists marketplaces with optional royalties. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 8, 2022
NFTs Instagram Is Trying Out a New Feature Allowing Users to Mint and Sell NFTs. Here’s How One OG Creator Is Using It "This is a step in the right direction," says Olive Allen, one of the crypto creators testing Instagram's new NFT function. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 4, 2022
Museums & Institutions Already Pin-Worthy, the Louvre Ups Its Social Media Appeal in a New Video Series With Pinterest The Louvre and Pinterest have collaborated on on a quirky series of videos offering "a new experience" of the world's most popular museum. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 4, 2022
Art & Tech Make Way, DALL-E: Google Has Beta-Launched Its Text-to-Image A.I. Model The tech giant has cautiously released Imagen, a model it deems best-in-class. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 3, 2022
Market What Recession? Wealthy Art Collectors Are Spending More Than Ever—and 3 More Takeaways From the New Art Basel and UBS Report Art trading is rebounding strongly across the world, so too are the prices wealthy collectors are willing to pay. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 3, 2022
Archaeology & History In a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Discovery, Swedish Archaeologists Have Unearthed a Cache of Viking Silver That Still Looks Brand New Discovered outside of Stockholm, the hoard includes a Norman coin whose only previous documentation was in an 18th-century book. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 2, 2022
Art & Exhibitions JR Is One of 10 Artists Installing Large-Scale Art in Giza For a Contemporary Art Festival, With Meta Providing an AR Bent Forever is Now returns for a second year with new installations. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 1, 2022
Galleries The French Collective Obvious Has Become One of the First A.I. Artists to Receive Gallery Representation The trio has signed with Danysz, with a solo show planned for the gallery's Marais location in December. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 1, 2022
NFTs Hilma af Klint’s Famous Series of Paintings of a Spiral Temple Gets the NFT Treatment on Pharrell Williams’s Web3 Platform The NFT project offers the only way to acquire works from the series, which will never come to market. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 31, 2022
On View In Pictures: See the Monumental Public Art Installed Across the Qatari Landscape Ahead of the World Cup Games The country has unveiled more than 100 works by some of the world's most celebrated artists. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 30, 2022
NFTs Is Twitter’s Future Under Elon Musk Filled With NFTs? Its Latest Feature Allows Users to Buy and Sell Crypto Art Via Tweet The platform's new integration may point to where the social media company is headed. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 28, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Smithsonian Has Found Two Sites for New Museums Dedicated to Women and Latinos—But Many Obstacles Remain The ultimate decision may prove contentious. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 28, 2022
Museums & Institutions Orientalism, Contemporary Art, and Cars: Qatar Is Building Three New Museums to Further Expand Its Cultural Scene In the run up to this year's World Cup, the country is previewing three institutions due to open in the next decade. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 27, 2022