Archaeology & History The Hunt: $200 Million Worth of Art Is Still Missing From a Paraguay Museum Thieves dug a tunnel to steal European masterworks back in 2002. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 15, 2024
Art World Art Bites: What’s Up With This Museum’s Cabinet of Noses? An eccentric museum display inspired an equally quirky new artwork. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 9, 2024
Art World Art Bites: How the Art World Rediscovered Judith Leyster Works by the supremely talented Dutch master have often been wrongly attributed to men. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 7, 2024
Archaeology & History The Hunt: What Happened to the Great Sphinx’s Nose? The mystery of the Egyptian statue's missing nose has fascinated people for centuries. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 5, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Who Was Degas’s ‘Little Dancer’? Meet the young ballerina who posed for Degas's controversial sculpture. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 2, 2024
Archaeology & History The Hunt: The Search for Sappho’s Lost Poetry Awaits a New Chapter The Greek poet frequently pined for women in tender yet charged lines about love’s ravages. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 30, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Manet and Morisot’s Creative—and Complicated—Bond The pair of impressionists had an intense relationship and were possibly lovers. By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 19, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Why Louise Bourgeois Loved Spiders The artist is known for her towering arachnids, but where did the inspiration come from? By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 17, 2024
Art World Art Bites: What Was Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Survival Kit? The painter proposed these kits to help anyone, artist or not, survive modern society By Vittoria Benzine, Jun 10, 2024
Art World Art Bites: Inside the Feverish Dream Sequence Dalí Concocted for Hitchcock The director sought out the artist for a surreal scene in 1945's "Spellbound." By Vittoria Benzine, May 28, 2024
Archaeology & History Belgian Archaeologists Discover Lost Bunkers During Routine Park Maintenance The ruins in Knokke-Heist were used during World War II. By Vittoria Benzine, May 25, 2024
Pop Culture As Seen on ‘The Office’: A Beloved Watercolor of a Paper Company The painting hung in the Dunder Mifflin offices for six seasons. By Vittoria Benzine, May 24, 2024
Art World Art Bites: What’s With All the Dogs in Lavinia Fontana’s Portraits? Whether lap dogs or hunting breeds, canines are a motif throughout the painter’s oeuvre. By Vittoria Benzine, May 19, 2024
Pop Culture Art Behind the Meme: An Eye-Rolling Saint Saint Rosalie has become a symbol of exasperation everywhere. By Vittoria Benzine, May 16, 2024
Art & Exhibitions A New Show at Kensington Palace Honors 170 Years’ Worth of Unseen Labor "Untold Lives" highlights the staff that kept the palace running. By Vittoria Benzine, May 12, 2024