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Winter Storm Traps Hundreds of Motorists Overnight in Sweden
Truck drivers and other motorists were locked in blankets of snow on a major roadway overnight after nearly 10 inches of snow fell within 24 hours.
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A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag
A blockbuster restaging of an “art amusement park” from 1987 aims to recover a lost element in art — fun. But in our age of hype and commerce, was it doomed to fall short?
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Russian Oligarch Takes Sotheby’s to Court as Art World Watches
At trial next week, Dmitry Rybolovlev is set to accuse Sotheby’s of helping an art dealer trick him into wildly overspending for works, a claim the company disputes.
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Museum World Hit by Cyberattack on Widely Used Software
Hackers targeted software that many museums use to show their collections online and to manage sensitive information.
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Told Ya So: The Prescient Posters of the Environmental Movement
Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of their pleas.
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Former Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt Toys With Running for Mayor of Florence
The museum’s former director, Eike Schmidt, is toying — somewhat mischievously — with entering the race to become Florence’s mayor.
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The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler’s List
Film critics have both the educational blessing and the soul-crushing curse of watching a lot of Holocaust films, and they mostly come in two varieties. Some, like “The Pianist,” “The Survivor,” “In Darkness,” and “Defiance,” are survival stories, usually showing a single character or a small group navigating the breadth of inhumanity surrounding them, and…
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Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex
As the number of bees and other pollinators falls, field pansies are adapting by fertilizing their own seeds, a new study found.
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NASA Spacecraft Takes New Images of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon
Juno, a NASA mission designed to study Jupiter’s origins, sent back new views of the most eruptive world in the solar system.