A Pandemic-Driven Love Affair With All Things Vintage
NY Times - It’s not often that Home Union, a vintage home furnishings store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, gets its hands on a 1970s Mads Caprani curved f...
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How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan
NY Times - In November 2013, Nora von Achenbach, curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, examined the catalog for an upcoming au...
From Japan comes a solution for attending theatre while respecting social distancing
domus - Japanese dance company Moonlight Mobile Theater (tsukiakari-theater.jp) renown for their avant-garde performances, has come up with a crafty w...
Male Artists Have Made Fortunes in the Exploding NFT Market
artnet news - Beeple. Fewocious. Andrés Reisinger. That guy who made Nyan Cat. As the market for NFT artworks explodes, the majority of the artists b...
All eyes on San Marino in the race to buy virtual land
domus - It has been around for a couple of months only, but it is already going viral and could become Elon Musk’s next playground. Earth 2 is the 1:1...
Microsoft announces Mesh, a holographic meeting platform
domus - Virtual full-body capture entertainment experiences, immersive deep-sea explorations, and mixed reality collaborative meetings. These are just...
Archaeologists Find Ornate Chariot Preserved in Ash From Mount Vesuvius
Hyperallergic - We tend to think of ancient forms of transportation as crude or utilitarian, but a recent discovery at Pompeii proves that the concept...
Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit
NY Times - In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, shuttered doors and plunging revenues, the Louvre faces new turbulence: a legal fight ov...
Immersive van Gogh Experiences Bloom Like Sunflowers
NY Times - For all those Vincent van Gogh fans who once stood cheek-by-jowl at the Museum of Modern Art to get a selfie in front of “The Starry Night...
Why the Art World Needs a Clear Marker for What the ‘End of the Pandemic’ Means
artnet news - Our columnist explores US medical experts' thinking on how to define when to lift public-health restrictions. - read more...