Satellite Imagery Suggests ISIS Destroyed Two More Ancient Sites in Palmyra
Hyperallergic -ISIS militants have reputedly wrecked two additional sites in Palmyra, in acts of cultural oppression that began just weeks after the terror group regained control of the ancient city from Syrian...
Florida Art Thief Drives Stolen Car 1,000 Miles to Ask Obama for Pardon
Hyperallergic - Miami resident and confessed art thief Marcus Sanford Patmon was arrested on Wednesday after driving a stolen car some 1,000 miles to Arlington, Virginia, where “he was looking to be pardoned by...
Finalists for London’s Top Public Art Spot Include a Drone-Topped Dessert and an Iraqi Deity
Hyperallergic - For the past five months, those crossing London’s Trafalgar Square received a massive thumbs up courtesy of David Shrigley, whose sculpture “Really Good” sat atop the Fourth Plinth. The towering...
Trump Team Plans to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
Hyperllargic- The Hill has gotten a first look at the federal budget in the works by President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, and it is, to put it mildly, brutal.
In an effort to reduce federal spendi...
Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how peop...
The Gaming Tech That May Help Find Alien Life
BBC - The iconic Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia has witnessed the birth and death of star systems, unravelled cosmic mysteries and even relayed the first live TV pictures of astronauts on ...
artist creates beauty from rubble of war
EI - The 56-year-old former agricultural trader, now unemployed, was looking at the transformation of the ruins of his house in Khan Younis in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip. It is a third incarnation in ...
The teenage photographer who captured Andy Warhol’s 1960s studio
BBC - The photographs he would go on to take coincided with Warhol's emergence as a prominent artist and would capture the vibrant creativity of the New York art scene in the late 1960s.The young photographer ...