Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Early After Plans for ‘Guerrilla Art Installation’ by Climate Activists Leak
The Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston shuttered early on Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the theft of several famous works. The museum said it...
Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees
Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last...
Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable
Lithium, the common ingredient in almost all electric-car batteries, has become so precious that it is often called white gold. But something surprising has happened...
Crypto Wants Its Shine Back
At a cryptocurrency conference in Denver this month, a group of singers clad in bright orange onesies took the stage to perform what one industry website later...
Barkley Hendricks’ Stanley Whitney Portrait Could Break Auction Record
Barkley L. Hendricks’s 1971 portrait of artist Stanley Whitney is poised to break a record when it comes up for auction in May. The life-size...
YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
YouTube suspended former President Donald J. Trump’s account on the platform six days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The video platform said...
Arts and Cultural Industries Represented a Record $1 Trillion of the US Economy in 2021, New Report Finds
The arts and culture sectors represented more than $1 trillion of the US economy in 2021 and accounted for a record portion of country’s overall...
BORG Drinking Is Going Viral on TikTok. What on Earth Is It?
Before you ask, BORG — which is pronounced like the aliens from “Star Trek” — is an acronym for “blackout rage gallon.” The drink going...
Indigenous Remains Repatriated by the Netherlands to Caribbean Island of St. Eustatius
The remains of nine Indigenous people, unearthed by archaeologists on the small Dutch-Caribbean island of St. Eustatius more than 30 years ago, have been returned...
Artworks Worth $20 M. or More Made Up Nearly Half of Art Sold at Auction Between 2018 and 2022
As the art fair calendar continues in full swing and a Johannes Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum sold out, a new report from Sotheby’s further...
At SXSW, Cheech Marin Talks Identity Politics And What It Means To Be Chicano
Of all the discourse that permeates today’s never-ending newscycle, gender, identity, and race issues create the most heat. But, where there is heat there is light, and comedian and...
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating the surveillance of American citizens, including several journalists who cover the tech industry, by the Chinese company that...
WeWork Reaches a Debt Restructuring Deal With SoftBank
WeWork, the struggling office space company, said on Friday that it had reached a deal with SoftBank and other investors to significantly reduce its debt...
Twitter’s Talks Over Licensing Music Are Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter explored the licensing of music rights from three major labels before negotiations stalled after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, said eight people with...