Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta
“Raise your hand if you know who is getting fired?” a Meta employee wrote in an online chat group for the company’s engineers this month....
Abortion Pill Ruling: Read Annotated Excerpts From FDA Case
PAGE 11 Women who have aborted a child — especially through chemical abortion drugs that necessitate the woman seeing her aborted child once it passes...
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
Some in the industry have pushed back against suggestions that it is directly responsible for any environmental harm. A May 2022 letter to the Environmental...
Air Jordans Worn by Michael Jordan Become the Most Expensive Sneakers Ever Auctioned
A pair of Air Jordans worn by Michael Jordan during the famed 1998 NBA finals sold at Sotheby’s for $2.2 million on Tuesday, becoming the...
Man Gets Trapped Inside Public Art in Canada After Easter Mischief
Public art can be engrossing. But for a man who tried to climb the Talus Dome sculpture in Edmonton, a city in Alberta, Canada, it...
Taliban-Backed Project Seeks to Save Afghanistan’s Ancient Buddhist City from Copper Mining
An 18-month-long conservation project to protect a 2,000-year-old Buddhist city is being backed by the Taliban, according to the Art Newspaper. The Afghan heritage site...
Austin’s Blanton Museum Hires First Curator of Latino Art
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin has named Claudia Zapata as its first associate curator of Latino Art. They will start at the institution,...
Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River
WASHINGTON — After months of fruitless negotiations between the states that depend on the shrinking Colorado River, the Biden administration on Tuesday proposed to put...
The Met Awards Prestigious Commissions to Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite
This fall, new, cutting-edge commissions will take over two of the most visible stages contemporary art has to offer: the façade and Great Hall of...
Medieval Christian Wall Paintings Discovered in Sudan
In an unexpected find, archaeologists excavating residences of the ancient Nubian city of Old Dongola in Sudan discovered a complex of rooms hidden under the...
Abortion Ruling Could Undermine the F.D.A.’s Drug-Approval Authority
A federal judge’s ruling to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s longstanding approval of the abortion pill mifepristone poses threats to the U.S. government’s regulatory...
California Economy Is on Edge After Tech Layoffs and Studio Cutbacks
California has often been at the country’s economic forefront. Now, as fears of a national recession continue to nag, the state is hoping not to...
Music Executive Mo Ostin’s $120 M. Collection to be Auctioned at Sotheby’s, With Works by Magritte, Twombly, Basquiat, and More
A collection of more than 30 works amassed by American music executive Mo Ostin will be offered at Sotheby’s this spring, where it is expected...
Met Taps Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite for Commissions, Salvador Dalí Museum Opens Down Under, and More: Morning Links for April 11, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PRIME TIME. Artists Nairy Baghramian and Jacolby Satterwhite have been tapped for high-profile commissions by the Metropolitan Museum of...