The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to revisit a case that sought to grant copyright protection to artwork created by artificial intelligence. The decision leaves in place the ruling that A.I.-generated works, created without human authorship, are not eligible for copyright protection. Computer scientist Stephen Thaler suffered another setback Monday when the Supreme Court of...
A rare Fabergé masterpiece has made auction history. The Winter Egg, a stunning creation once linked to Russian royalty, sold for £22.8 million ($30.2 million) at Christie’s London on December 2, setting a new record as the most valuable Fabergé egg ever auctioned. When the later Romanov emperors sought to honour the cherished women in...
Pope Leo XIV has formally transferred custody of a historic collection of Indigenous objects—held by the Vatican Museums for the past century—to representatives of the Catholic Church in Canada, who will in turn return them to Indigenous communities across the country. Among the items is a rare Western Arctic sealskin kayak, the most prominent of...
American Public Television (APT) is set to auction around 30 paintings by the iconic artist Bob Ross through Bonhams beginning in November. Proceeds from the sale will support programming for both APT and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), following significant federal funding cuts enacted by the Republican-led Congress. Ross’s beloved series, The Joy of Painting,...
Italian police have seized 21 works from an exhibition on Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí, claiming they are fakes. “Dalí, Between Art and Myth” had only recently opened at Palazzo Tarasconi in Parma and had previously been on view in Rome, at the Museo Storico della Fanteria. “Tapestries, drawings, engravings, and objects attributed to Salvador Dalí,...
The sketch, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in July, depicts handwritten text inside a marker outline of a nude woman, with what appears to be Donald Trump’s signature placed where her pubic hair would be. Trump has denied creating the drawing, stating he has never drawn anything. “This is not me. This is...
Deep cuts to public funding and growing political instability are placing unprecedented pressure on museums throughout the Western world. Across the U.S., U.K., and Europe, museums are facing unprecedented financial and political pressures. Public funding—already in decline—is being slashed further, while cultural institutions scramble to maintain operations, independence, and public trust in a climate of...
Thieves have broken into Paris’s Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth 600,000 EUR in the latest of a worrying series of robberies from cultural institutions, according to the museum. Famed for its dinosaur skeletons and stuffed animals, the National Natural History Museum in the chic 5th district of the French capital also...
