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Dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World,” Dutch detective Arthur Brand has just recovered a stolen Picasso painting worth $28.2 million. Like the storyline of a heist movie, the 1938 painting Buste …
An incredibly influential figure in the contemporary art world, Okwui Enwezor has passed away at just 55 years old. Not only a curator and art historian, Enwezor was a poet and critic …
In South Africa’s Blombos Cave, researchers have discovered what is believed to be the world’s earliest drawing. The drawing—a crosshatch made on one rock using another—predates other uncovered art by a whopping …
Art lexicon is often daunting and dense. The words usually have roots in French or German, but even the simple(r) English ones are worthy of brushing up on. Learning the right terms …
Medusa's makeover, an album stored in DNA, Michael Jackson's "impossible" dance move and more
Edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, the lush PHAIDON tome “Art and Queer Culture” is a comprehensive exploration of 125 years worth of everything from fine painting to scrapbooks and activist …
Records made for aliens, shutting down douchebags on Tinder, a new Mona Lisa and more
A sketch previously attributed to one of Leonardo da Vinci’s students is currently being studied by experts who believe it may actually be an early drawing of the Mona Lisa. It’s long …
The first image of food wasn’t avocado toast—instead it was a still life of fruit, shot by William Henry Fox Talbot (a British scientist and mathematician, best known as a pioneer photographer …
Inventing transparent wood, saving a language, how emoji is changing the way we communicate and more in this week's look at the web