France Vowed to Return Looted Treasures But Few Are Heading Back
New York Times - A year ago this week, in a pioneering announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France said that his country would give back 26 loot...
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Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally
The New York Times - What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black a...
Soft neural implant allows scientists to manipulate brain cells via smartphone
de zeen - Brain disease research could be sped up using a smartphone-controlled "plug-and-play" neural implant invented by scientists from the USA and...
Will Instagram Ever ‘Free the Nipple’?
The New York Times - Photographers have learned to be inventive in evading Instagram’s ban on female nipples. They’ve used paint, glitter, hair and fl...
New Berlin foundation turns AI into immersive art
The Art Newspaper - A new non-profit art foundation has launched in Berlin to create exhibitions exploring scientific innovation in art, including the...
AI Technology Helped Researchers Discover 143 Ancient Geoglyphs
Hyperallergic - Archaeologists in Yamagata, Japan said they have discovered a cluster of enormous, ancient geoglyphs in Southern Peru. The discovery w...
Abstract Expressionist Titans Drive Sales at Sotheby’s Contemporary Auction
Artsy - Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art on Thursday was marked by protracted bidding wars for major artworks. - read more
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The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
The Art Newspaper -The celebrations of artists of the past have rarely acquired a political dimension, as has been the case with Leonardo da Vinci (1...
Artemisia Gentileschi Rakes in $5.3 Million; Souls Grown Deep Announces Four Museum Acquisitions
Hyperallergic - The dust has settled from a $1.1 billion New York Fall Auction Week. In a predictable bummer, post-auction reports from ArtTactic indi...
At the Entrenched Met Museum, the New Director Shakes Things Up
The New York Times - One year into the job, Max Hollein shows that art shouldn’t be seen solely through a Western lens. - read more...