Auctions Pop Star Halsey Is Auctioning Off Five Drawings She Made Live Onstage to Benefit Reproductive Rights The works are expected to fetch around $7,000 each at Sotheby's. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 12, 2022
NFTs What Does Your Crypto Wallet Say About You? Artist Ian Cheng Is Creating a Series of Algorithm-Based NFT Portraits Each portrait can update with changed behavior, like a metaverse mood ring. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 11, 2022
Books In Pictures: To Honor Franz Kafka’s Birthday, See His Drawings Once Hidden in a Swiss Bank Vault Drawings by the literary legend have been published for the first time after a Kafka-esque journey. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 3, 2022
Crime In Pictures: Do Those Confiscated Paintings at the Orlando Museum of Art Actually Look Like Basquiats? Judge for Yourself The museum has already scrubbed all mention of the show, titled "Heroes and Monsters," from its website. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 1, 2022
Archaeology A Team of Archaeologists and Volunteers Are Conducting an Unprecedented Dig to Uncover the Mysteries at Arthur’s Stone The University of Manchester broke ground on the first-ever archaeological dig at an ancient site linked to King Arthur. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 1, 2022
Art World Milwaukee’s New Ruth Foundation Opens Its Vast $440 Million Fortune to Fund Dozens of U.S. Art Nonprofits The inaugural grants are split among 78 arts nonprofits. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 30, 2022
People Artist Margaret Keane, Whose Husband Tried to Take Credit for Her Paintings of Big-Eyed Characters, Has Died at 94 Keane was the subject of a 2014 biopic directed by Tim Burton. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 30, 2022
Law Concluding a Slate of Negotiations, Germany and Nigeria Plan to Sign an Agreement on the Return of Benin Bronzes From Berlin The negotiations mark another chapter in the ongoing saga of Nigeria's efforts to secure the Benin bronzes. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 29, 2022
Art World A London Artist Saved a Trove of His Late Neighbor’s Op-Art Drawings From the Trash. Then, They Went Viral London artist Alan Warburton rescued the artwork of his upstairs neighbor George Westren. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 29, 2022
Archaeology Israeli Archaeologists Have Discovered One of the World’s Oldest Mosques in the Negev Desert The ruins are 1,200 years old. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 28, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: A New Show at the Getty Museum Explores How Medieval Art Has Inspired Pop Culture, From Brothers Grimm to Game of Thrones J.R.R. Tolkien, the Brothers Grimm, and Walt Disney meet their historic European predecessors at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles through September 11. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 28, 2022
Art World Rampaging Junior High Students Trampled and Damaged Artworks During a Field Trip to a Japanese Triennial One of the works on view at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale has been irreparably damaged. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 9, 2022
