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Researchers Find Evidence Human Beings Are Way Older Than We Thought
A study that reexamined Homo sapiens fossils found our species is 30,000 years older than previously believed.
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Art
Saying Maybe to the Yes Men
As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.
Art
Digital Exhibition Examines the Darker Side of Bananas
The banana's dominance and ubiquity has had serious and far-reaching implications for the region, engendering exploitative labor systems, climate change, and migration.
Books
The Forgotten Story of Modern Art's Great Jewish Collectors
Charles Dellheim's study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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12 Artists Awarded Fellowships by National Arts Club
The 18-month fellowship aims to provide artists with “as much access as possible” to the club’s facilities and networks “at a time and place convenient to artists.”
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“Dune” Crypto Group That Paid $3M For Rare Book Mocked For Thinking They Owned The Rights
A coalition of investors raised funds to purchase the film’s storyboard and announced they would “make the book public.”
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This Extremely Satisfying Website Ranks Emojis By Actual Size
A new project, “Emoji to Scale,” orders every mini-object by their real-world dimensions.
Art
Time and Transformation in the Art of Toba Khedoori
Although Khedoori does not depict living beings, their presence is evoked in the traces they leave behind.
Art
Bronx Calling Recognizes Artists' Individuality but Neglects Art-World Gentrification
The Bronx Museum's fifth biennial continues to focus its programming on individual identity, eliding the ever-divergent interests of the art market and local communities.
Art
Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness
While it may be strange to think of food insecurity as a basis for art, the works in Food Justice reveal barriers and injustices in food access.
Satire
From Cattelan's Golden Toilet to Bored Apes, We Think This Art Should Be on Succession
Shiv would definitely have a Chihuly chandelier.
News
How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?
“[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities," says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh.