Archaeology Norwegian Archaeologists Are Salvaging Priceless Artifacts From Melting Glaciers—Before It’s Too Late The team has uncovered thousands of objects in the Innlandet region, including a 3,000-year-old arrow. By Richard Whiddington, 8 hours ago
Archaeology Clues on Ancient Documents Suggest That Vlad the Impaler—The Prince Who Inspired Count Dracula—May Have Shed Tears of Blood Using new technology, scientists are able to find out increasingly intimate information about famous figures from the past. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, 10 hours ago
Shows & Exhibitions Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Shows in New York Not to Miss in October Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Dana James, Manal Kara, Justine Hill, and more. By Annikka Olsen, 1 day ago
Shows & Exhibitions Jean-François Millet’s Grandson Ran a ‘Fake Art Factory.’ A New Show at the Getty Reckons With Its Legacy The iconic 'Man With A Hoe' will be displayed alongside a forged preparatory study. By Richard Whiddington, 1 day ago
Up Next Artist Sahana Ramakrishnan’s Fantastical Worlds of Wild Animals and Ocean Life Reveal ‘Moments of Universal Truth’ The artist's debut exhibition "An Ocean of Time" is now on view at New York's Fridman Gallery. By Katie White, 1 day ago
On View See Inside the First Museum Retrospective Dedicated to John Waters’s Unparalleled Contributions to Cinema—and Bad Taste "Pope of Trash" at the Academy Museum documents the director's films, obsessions, and creative processes. By Min Chen, 1 day ago
Art History Is There a UFO in That Renaissance Painting? See 7 Historical Artworks That (Possibly) Depict Close Encounters With the Third Kind Do you want to believe? By Artnet News, 1 day ago
Shows & Exhibitions An Exhibition by Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera, Delayed by Controversy, Opens in Chile With Considerable Alterations "Magnitud 11.9" explores democracy and its fragility. By Richard Whiddington, 2 days ago
Shows & Exhibitions Meet the 4 Artists Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Now Showing at the Centre Pompidou Four artists contending with identity and migration have made the shortlist. By Anna Sansom, 2 days ago
Law A French Court Has Sentenced Artist-Provocateur Pyotr Pavlensky to Prison for Leaking Private Footage of a Paris Mayoral Candidate Benjamin Griveaux ended his mayoral campaign after footage of him appeared on the Russian artist’s website in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, 2 days ago
Art World Wet Paint in the Wild: Behind the Scenes With Shepard Fairey as He Paints a Singapore Mural and Opens a Gallery Show at the Same Time The artist takes us through a week in his life. By Annie Armstrong, 2 days ago
Science & Tech An A.I. Has Created Interactive Portraits Showing Uncannily Humanlike Emotions Could a digital agent with humanlike behaviors be manipulated for nefarious purposes? By Jo Lawson-Tancred, 2 days ago
On View ‘I Was Against It’: How Marc Chagall’s Granddaughter Battled Skepticism to Fall for a Revelatory Immersive Exhibit in New York We walked through the exhibition with Bella Meyer. By Adam Schrader, 2 days ago
Museums UNESCO Has Teamed Up With Interpol to Build a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts The goal of the museum is not to expand its collection but to gradually empty itself as the missing objects are eventually recovered. By Adam Schrader, 2 days ago
Museums U.K. Museums Maintain That Art Theft Is ‘Rare’ Following Reports Exaggerating the Scale of the Problem Reports of thousands of missing items have come following the British Museum scandal this summer. By Adam Schrader, 2 days ago
