The house was designed to look like a domestic residence, not like the palace of a king or the compound of an autocrat or a dictator. It was meant to look like domestic architecture. - NPR
“One of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, the tomb of the young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, is showing alarming signs of damage and is at risk of collapse if steps are not taken to save it, preservationists warn.” - Artnet
Still Life with Guitar (1919) was supposed to be in a shipment of artworks from Madrid to Granada for an exhibition, but it didn’t arrive with the rest of the art. Did it proverbially “fall off the truck”? Spanish police say it may never have been on the truck. - Reuters
“Before the shocking theft of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre on October 19, most had all but forgotten the ruling women who once wore them during their 19th-century reigns.” - ARTnews
It is because we are surrounded by these kinds of A.I. images and tools that users are now also trained to be skeptical of everything they see. - The New York Times
The collection’s history stretches as far back as the 1750s, to when the school was called the College of New Jersey, but its earliest art holdings were destroyed in the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Princeton in 1777. - Artnet
Surely, to everyone outside the republic, a pair of cat burglars cleverly robbing a museum in broad daylight and escaping—Beep! Beep!—on mopeds is very nearly the Frenchest thing that could have happened. - The Atlantic
"German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors.” - NPR
Of course, “having been originally built in the fifth century BC, and come through most of that span much the worse for wear, it requires intensive and near-constant maintenance.” - OpenCulture
“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare stones and metals can be sold or melted down, as many experts fear they will be.” - The New York Times
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality has gotten so good that it’s now almost impossible to create parodies.” - Wired
Joanna Koerten was regularly visited by nobles and even royalty; a contemporary poet compared her skill with paper to Michelangelo’s with paint; one of her pieces sold for over twice what Rembrandt got for The Night Watch. Her work is now on view at D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts. - Artnet
