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Dec 24, 2024 · Michelangelo made this nude crucifix when he was just 18 years old. It was a thank you to the Augustine monks at San Spirito who let the teen couch surf after his patron, Lorenzo de Medici, died ...

Dec 19, 2024 · Archaeology had a massive 2024. Discoveries abounded—from ever-multiplying Pompeii frescos to dinosaur fossils in Iowa—as ancient histories continued to be rethought, fought over, and, in some ...

Dec 27, 2024 · The conversation around A.I. in the art world was louder than ever this year as the new technology continued to make leaps forward. It is the subject of a new book A.I. and the Art Market, written ...

Dec 13, 2024 · New York emerging artist Jean-Pierre Villafañe merges the boundaries of corporate and after-hours selves in irreverent paintings that have a captivating Mad Men-meets-Chicago energy. In one ...

Dec 26, 2024 · Prem Sahib’s (b. 1982, London) artistic practice spans objects, installation, and performance, exploring themes of queer intimacy, desire, and the intersections of personal and political spaces ...

Dec 29, 2024 · Left: Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man (1964). Right: Conservator Britta New retouching Peter Paul Rubens’s The Judgement of Paris during the conservation ...

Dec 22, 2024 · Raphael depicts three naked women in back- and front-facing views, perhaps mimicking the dancing muses from Boticelli’s Primavera (c. 1470) or, more likely, a classical Greek sculpture of the ...

Apr 17, 2014 · Charles Ray‘s Young Man (2012): Though another of Ray’s full-scale male nudes met an ignomious end when Boy With Frog (2008) was removed from its canal-side perch in Venice, the artist has ...

Nov 19, 2024 · An impressionistic stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios sold at Sotheby’s New York on November 18 for $12.4 million, making it the most valuable work made by the early 20th-century decorative ...