Auctions Possibly the Oldest Pair of Levi’s Jeans, Salvaged From an 1857 Shipwreck, Just Auctioned for a Deep-Pocketed $114,000 What may be the earliest known Levi Strauss pants went for double their estimate at auction. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 12, 2022
On View An Artist Has Transformed an Abandoned Las Vegas Gas Station Into a Neon Oasis in the Desert The artist known as Neon Saltwater re-envisioned the 1930s relic for the Life Is Beautiful Festival. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 9, 2022
Archaeology Hurricanes Washed a Mysterious Wooden Structure Ashore in Florida. Now, Archaeologists Say It’s a 19th-Century Cargo Ship Residents had previously speculated that the 100-foot enigma was the work of extraterrestrials. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 9, 2022
Galleries A Genre-Defying Brooklyn Gallery Opens With an Exhibition of Masks Spanning 200 Years "B" Dry Goods was launched by a former Boston gallerist who deals in rare-books and music-ephemera. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 8, 2022
Archaeology Archaeologists Have Unearthed the First Full-Color Portraits of Egyptian Mummies in More Than a Century The excavation at Gerza also turned up papyri, pottery, and coffins dating back to the Ptolemaic period. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 8, 2022
On View British Artist Es Devlin’s Latest Kinetic Sculpture Honors New York as the Most Linguistically Diverse City on Earth The immersive sculpture is part of Moët & Chandon's global holiday celebrations, taking over 20 cities worldwide. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions A Mint-Condition Copy of the 1981 ‘Rolling Stone’ Issue Featuring That Iconic John Lennon and Yoko Ono Cover Goes Up for Auction Annie Leibovitz snapped the image just hours before the tragedy outside Manhattan's Dakota building in 1980. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Archaeology Scientists Have Cracked the Origins of ‘Desert Kites,’ Massive Prehistoric Patterns That Were Carved into the Middle Eastern Desert Three studies confirm the long-held hypothesis that the structures were hunting traps. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Law A Tourist Was Fined for Scaling the UNESCO-Protected El Castillo Pyramid in Mexico The $250 fine, however, has stoked further outrage for being far below the standard penalty. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 6, 2022
Galleries Galerie56, a New Space at 56 Leonard Street in New York, Opens Its Second Cross-Cultural Exhibition The exhibition features works by sculptor Isamu Noguchi juxtaposed with objects by architect Charlotte Perriand. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 6, 2022
On View A New York Museum Asked Bakers to Recreate Their Boroughs in Gingerbread. Here’s What Came Out of the Oven "Gingerbread NYC" at the Museum of the City of New York exhibits the results of a citywide bake-off. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 5, 2022
Auctions Elvis Presley’s Dilapidated Private Jet Will Go Up for Auction and Is Not Likely to Fetch a Kingly Sum It was recently rescued from 30 years sitting on an uncovered tarmac in Roswell, New Mexico. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 2, 2022
Archaeology Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s ‘Unfounded’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ as Fiction They decry Hancock as a flagrant pseudo-archaeologist. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 2, 2022
Books ‘Invisible Man’ Author Ralph Ellison Was Also a Prolific Photographer. A New Book Spotlights Hundreds of His Polaroids and Street Scenes Ellison often collaborated with his lifelong friend Gordon Parks. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 1, 2022
Archaeology A Group of Eighth-Graders on a Field Trip Near Tel Aviv Stumbled Upon a 3,000-Year-Old Sacred Egyptian Amulet The group's leader calls the find 'the dream of every amateur archaeologist.' By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 1, 2022
