The 750-year-old medieval ship sank off the coast of Dorset during the 13th century, leaving behind remarkably preserved artifacts.
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Meet the 2022 Winners of the Pollock-Krasner Awards
Josely Carvalho, Laddie John Dill, Rita McBride, and Cheryl Ann received the Lee Krasner Award for lifetime artistic achievement. Beili Liu is the winner of the $50,000 Pollock Prize for Creativity.
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Getty Images Awards “Inclusion” Grants to Eight Photojournalists Worldwide
The $5,000 grants are awarded to emerging photographers and videographers from historically underrepresented groups.
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BeReal App Gets Real Roasted With Memes
The popular BeReal app, which prompts users to post within a two-minute window at a random time every day, has become prime fodder for memes.
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The Rare Leica Camera That Smashed Auction Records
Earlier this summer, one of only 22 models of the Leica prototype “0-Series” quietly sold for over $15 million — five times the previous record for a camera.
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Three Arrested During “Die-In” Protest for Abortion Rights Outside LACMA
Activists chained themselves to the cast-iron lampposts of Chris Burden’s outdoor sculpture installation “Urban Light” (2008) and covered themselves in fake blood.
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Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024
The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.
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Met Acquires Works From Indian Art Collection Previously Rejected Over Provenance Concerns
The works had previously been offered to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, but the institution turned them down on the basis that it could not establish “clear and secure” provenance for over half of the collection.
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Louvre Advisors Detained in Art Trafficking Investigation
The news comes after former Louvre President Jean-Luc Martinez was charged in May with concealing the origins of illegally smuggled Egyptian antiquities.
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Artists Condemn New Queens Development “Masquerading as a Cultural Benefit”
An open letter signed by hundreds of art workers, organizers, and community members accuses arts institutions of “artwashing” the $2 billion project.
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Following Outcry, GameStop Pulls Tasteless “Falling Man” NFT Evoking 9/11 Attacks
The artwork emulated photographer Richard Drew’s well-known image of a person leaping from one of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.
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Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting
The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.