Pop Culture ‘One Piece’ Is the World’s Most Popular Manga. Now an Artist Has Transformed It Into an Epic Book That’s Impossible to Read It's the world's longest book. It's also a conceptual art comment on fame and internet culture. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 20, 2022
Art & Tech ‘A.I. Should Exclude Living Artists From Its Database,’ Says One Painter Whose Works Were Used to Fuel Image Generators The digital artist Greg Rutkowski has seen his style copied in thousands of images created using artificial intelligence. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 20, 2022
Archaeology & History After a Decades-Long Quest, Researchers Believe They’ve Finally Found the Lost Mayan City of Sak Tz’i The fabled Maya dynasty's land spanned 100 acres of jungle and dates back at least 2,500 years. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 19, 2022
Auctions Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Signature Beaded Judicial Collar Fetched Almost 30 Times Its Estimate at Bonhams The sale fetched more than half a million dollars overall, and the proceeds will go to the RBG Endowment Fund. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 16, 2022
Archaeology & History A Renowned Egyptologist Believes He Has Found Queen Nefertiti’s Tomb at Last Zahi Hawass says he will be ready to make the declaration this fall. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions A Black-Owned Baltimore Gallery Aims to Change the Game by Partnering Directly With Christie’s Myrtis Bedolla on the significance of the initiative and how it grows out of her gallery's previous work. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 16, 2022
Museums & Institutions You Can Help the Smithsonian Pick a Design for Jeff Bezos’s New Astronaut Incubator at the National Air and Space Museum The five shortlisted architecture firms have submitted anonymous proposals for the new building. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 15, 2022
Archaeology & History Neolithic Pottery Suggests That Scotland’s Helpless Love of Porridge Has Endured for Thousands of Years Traces of cereal, milk and meat were found on crockery from underwater sites on the Isle of Lewis. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 15, 2022
Auctions A Folio From the Greatest Illuminated Manuscript of Persia’s ‘Book of Kings’ Could Fetch $7 Million at Sotheby’s The single double-sided sheet is from the most treasured manuscript of "The Shahnameh." By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 15, 2022
On View In Pictures: A Texas Exhibition Shines a Light on Paintings of Women, by Women "Women Painting Women" is at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through September 25. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 14, 2022
Archaeology & History A Massive Railroad Project in Mexico Has Led to the Discovery of the Ancient Maya City of Paamul II The government is teasing a new museum in MĂ©rida for 'Maya Train discoveries.' By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 13, 2022
Museums & Institutions It’s Pablomonium! A Bonanza of Major Picasso Shows Will Hit Dozens of Museums in 2023 to Mark 50 Years Since the Artist’s Passing Institutions ranging from the Centre Pompidou to the Mint Museum in North Carolina are participating. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 12, 2022
Art & Tech Experts Identified a New Species of Dinosaur After Realizing a Fossil Owned by a German University Had Been Miscategorized for a Century The new identification gives paleontologists a better view of the diversity of prehistoric life in Europe. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 12, 2022
People Why a New York Street Artist Broke His 10-Month Instagram Hiatus to Commemorate Queen Elizabeth II on the City’s Subway System “The world improved from the Queen being in it,” Adrian Wilson, aka Plannedalism, said. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 9, 2022
Politics Why Isn’t Michelle Obama Smiling? What’s Barack’s Fashion Sense Like? The Artists Behind the New White House Portraits Reveal All Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung on what went into their long awaited, newly unveiled work By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 9, 2022