Piecing the past together: it’s thought the mosaic dates back to the third century. Courtesy Elazığ Museum At the end of last year, a farmer in eastern Turkey discovered a rare, largely intact late Roman mosaic while planting a cherry orchard. Spanning almost 1,000 square feet, the mosaic is thought by archaeologists to be the …
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The cover of the first issue features an artwork by Japanese AI artist Emi Kusano, who discusses her practice in an interview. Screenshot from The AI Art Magazine’s website. The AI Art Magazine, a new, 176-page biannual publication dedicated entirely to art made by artificial intelligence (AI), has launched. It’s publisher, Mike Brauner, said in …
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“I’ve never seen one that’s so beautifully preserved,” professor Alice Roberts said, who presents a documentary featuring the sword. Prof Alice Roberts/BBC/Rare TV Archaeologists in rural Kent, UK, have unearthed a “really incredible” 6th-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. Several other striking objects have also been found at the same site. It is …
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Frida Kahlo. Photo Hulton Archive/Getty Images Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day. This year, works by Henri Matisse, Robert Capa, and Frida Kahlo lose their copyright protections, as do novels like Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell …
Jack Whitten, NY Battleground, 1967. Jonathan Muzikar/©2025 Museum of Modern Art, New York Years without Venice Biennales tend to be quieter affairs, but that’s not the case for 2025, which is shaping up to be a particularly busy period for the art world, with long-anticipated museum openings across the globe and experimental biennials staged on …
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Leonid Mikhelson, one of Russia’s richest men and an avid supporter of the war in Ukraine, has transferred several of his assets to his daughter, Victoria, who founded Scuola Piccola Zattere in November. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Last week, Swiss artist Reto Pulfer, Iranian artist Maryam Hoseini, and German artist Anna Witt demanded their …
The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art. LightRocket via Getty Images Japanese chemical company DIC Corporation announced in a press release Saturday that its board of directors had decided to “downsize and relocate” the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an institution in the city of Sakura, 25 miles northeast of Tokyo, that it owns. …
Rene Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (1954). Christie’s Images Limited, 2024 In 2024, the art auction market showed signs of recovery but fell well short of the highs reached in 2022, or even the lower totals from last year. The cumulative value of the top ten auction lots sold in 2024 was $512.6 million. That was …
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Robert Frank: Sick of Goodby’s, 1978. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation A total of 38 photographs by Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the institution announced in a statement last week. The acquisition includes 34 photographs donated by the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, …
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A sign installed in March by the Barbican in the show “Unravel”, explaining the withdrawal of two works by Loretta Pettway. Courtesy of Censorship at the Barbican Before 2024 even began, and arguably even before October 7, 2023, the art world was split on Israel and Palestine. But this year, the schism widened even further, …
