An art critic reviewed TikTok’s most-followed visual artist, spawning a parasocial pile-on

the original review is worth reading, a thoughtful and nuanced take that makes the subway artist's reaction even more unhinged # | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 6 months ago

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Santa Fe Home, Visited by the Dalai Lama and Later Owned by Paul Allen, Is for Sale for $15 Million. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

Here's Our Up-to-the-Minute Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place Around the World in 2023

From Paraguay to Paris and everywhere in between, here are all of the (confirmed) art fairs taking place around the world in 2023. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

National Gallery of Art Discovered One Vermeer Painting Not Painted by Vermeer

A new exhibition, "Vermeer's Secrets," presents the intriguing possibility that the Golden Age lone wolf may have had an apprentice. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

With NFT Prices Cratering, Can ‘Phygital’ Art Keep Collectors from Walking Away?

Could the noted rise of "phygital art—a contested and even loathed term—mark a renaissance for the battered NFT market? | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

After 50 Years Michael Heizer Is Finally Ready to Unveil City, His Life's Work

Heizer’s sprawling installation of manmade forms in the dusty Nevada desert runs a mile and a half long and can only be explored on foot. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

As a Crypto Winter Descends, Celebrities Quietly Delete Their NFT Profiles

Jimmy Fallon, Shonda Rhimes, Travis Barker, and Meek Mill are among the celebrities who have foregone their NFT avatars. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

Decolonizing Museums Doesn’t Help Us Workers in Congo So We’re Selling NFTs

Find out what is driving the international art market around the clock with daily art world news, expert commentary, and event reviews. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

Archaeology Institute Fighting British Museum over 3D Scans of Parthenon Marbles

The aim is to create replicas that could substitute those inside the British Museum in order for the originals to be returned to Greece. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 1 year ago

1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Minute Details (

Two years after being discovered, a treasure-filled Greek tomb has offered up a stone carving so sophisticated it could rewrite art history. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Leonardo da Vinci Invented the Parachute, Helicopter, and, the Whoopee Cushion

In 1507, Leonardo designed what he called "a flatulence machine" to use on an unsuspecting rival at an elaborate gathering. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Artist Jeff Koons will permanently place sculptures on the Moon

Jeff Koons is unveiling his first NFT collection, and a select group of corresponding sculptures will travel to the moon on a lunar lander. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Julian Assange and Crypto-Artist Pak Are Working on a Top Secret NFT Collab

The two-part sale will include a single-edition NFT and a "dynamic," open-edition NFT meant to draw in a larger pool of collectors. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Secrets Scholars Have Uncovered in the Work of Vermeer

Scholars are continuously excited by the mysteries in Vermeer's oeuvre. Here are 5 secrets you may not know about the artist's work. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Robot Artist Detained by Egyptian Authorities

Ai-Da, the world's first humanoid artificial intelligence robot artist, was detained for 10 days at Egyptian customs ahead of her show there. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

A Danish Museum Lent an Artist $84,000. Instead, He Pocketed It

The museum said it will eventually want its money back, but the artist, Jens Haaning, has no plans to acquiesce. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Scientists' tests show Stonehenge is made from a nearby indestructible material

New tests show that Stongehenge's unique geochemical composition may have made it uniquely well-equipped to stand the test of time. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300

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@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Original source code for the Web to be sold as an NFT

Sotheby's is auctioning an NFT of the original source code for the World Wide Web, created by Tim Berners-Lee. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Italian Artist Auctions Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.  | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 2 years ago

Sleepminting: Exposing the Weakness in NFT Ownership

Our columnist explores whether a project called NFTheft undermines a core value proposition of non-fungible tokens. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Lost Painting Buried Under a Picasso Rediscovered, 3D Printed, and Tokenized

Using artificial intelligence and 3-D printing, the duo has recreated a lost Santiago Rusiñol work that Pablo Picasso painted over. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

The Earliest Known Wooden Statue Is More Than Twice as Old as Stonehenge

At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is the world's oldest wooden art—and should make us reconsider assumptions about prehistoric society. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Beeple Buyers Reveal Identities – Purchase “Taking a Stand for People of Color”

Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran reveal that they are behind the $69-million sale of Beeple's digital art—and they have big plans. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty

Ben Davis on what's actually in Beeple's 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,' the digital artwork that sold for $69 million at Christie's. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

The First Blue Pigment Discovered in 200 Years Is Finally Commercially Available

YInMn Blue, the pigment discovered in 2009 at Oregon State University, has finally been approved by the EPA for use in artists' materials. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Impersonating a Property Owner to Paint Cookie Monster

The mural was painted over by the building's owner swiftly. But the case has fascinated the town—and the internet. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

'Salvator Mundi' not painted by Leonardo Da Vinci according to new finding

An Italian art historian claims that the newly found drawing is a study for Leonardo da Vinci's actual, lost "Salvator Mundi." | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Harvard to Remove Nazi Supporter Philip Johnson's Name from Building He Designed

The home Philip Johnson designed for his Harvard architectural thesis will now be referred to only by its street address in Cambridge. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Another Amateur Art Restorer in Spain Has Demolished a Once-Beautiful Artwork

Another restoration fail arrived in the Northwest city of Palencia in Spain, and locals are not at all pleased. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

New Study Suggests That Stonehenge Was Built to Amplify Sound During Rituals

The placement of Stonehenge's massive stones may have been in part to amplify sound, according to a new study of the site. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

One Artist Hacked Google Maps to Fake a Traffic Jam

The Berlin-based artist Simon Weckert came up with a physical intervention to digitally hack Google Maps's real time algorithm. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Yale Union transfers land and historic building to Native American arts nonprofit

Portland contemporary art center Yale Union is shutting down and transferring its building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Another Artist Made His Own Superblack–and Now It’s Even Blacker

Stuart Semple's new blackest black paint, Black 3.0, an alternative to Vantablack, is available to everyone—except Anish Kapoor. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 3 years ago

Germany's €50B Package for Businesses That Boosts Artists and Galleries

The German government is providing a major stimulus package to support its creative and cultural industries. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Apple’s 5-Hour iPhone Ad Takes Viewers on Tour of the Hermitage Museum in Russia

Apple's new iPhone ad is a five-hour film that was shot in just one take at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid

A Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands in the early hours of Monday morning. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Banana and Duct Tape Art Sells for $120k

Collectors of Maurizio Cattelan's Miami Basel artwork 'Comedian' are defending their purchase of the infamous $120,000 bananas. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Edward Hopper's psychologically charged landscapes on show at the Fondation Beyeler include a painting once owned by David Rockefeller. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

‘Sopranos’ Actor Discovers $10M Guercino (2014)

The painting is on its way to Turin where it will be exhibited along with other paintings of Saint Sebastion. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Akron Art Museum's “Open World”: How Video Games Influence Visual Artists

Over half of all Americans play video games. A new exhibition at the Akron Art Museum explores their influence on artists. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

A New Sims-Like Video Game Lets You to Build and Run Your Own Museum

The game tasks players with building institutions, filling them with interesting things to see, and making sure the place runs smoothly. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Leonardo Da Vinci Paint This Portrait of Machiavelli Found in a French Chateau?

A portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli by Leonardo may have been discovered at the Chateau de Valencay thanks to a letter in its archive. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Vantablack “The Art Material So Black It Eats Lasers and Flattens Reality”

You won't believe these new photos of an updated Vantablack, the blackest substance known to man, and a favorite of Anish Kapoor. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Van Gogh Had Friends, and Even a Girlfriend. A New Show Seeks to Debunk the Myth

A new show at the Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands looks at the friends, family, and models who surrounded Vincent van Gogh. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Arrests

Artist Lino Frongia has been taken into custody and an arrest warrant has been issued for collector Giulano Ruffini. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

History’s First Female Filmmaker Has Been Rescued from Obscurity Thanks to an En

Pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director, gets her due in Jodie Foster-narrated documentary "Be Natural." | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago

Greek Artist Takis, Who Used Magnets to Create Pioneering Kinetic Art, Has Died

The inventive Greek sculptor, who suspended a poet in midair in 1960, used electromagnetism, light, and sound as raw material. | Continue reading


@news.artnet.com | 4 years ago