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The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale
Ever since artist James Sanborn unveiled Kryptos, an outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters, amateur and professional cryptanalysts have been feverishly attempting to crack the code hidden...
Gretchen Dow Simpson, Creator of New Yorker Covers, Dies at 85
Gretchen Dow Simpson, an acclaimed Rhode Island painter whose moody, highly geometric images of seaside cottages, snow-covered farms and other totems of New England life drew comparisons to...
Brad Holland, Subversive Artist Who Reinvented American Illustration, Dies at 81
Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a...
Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI
Artificial intelligence has to date been enlisted as a bogeyman in cultural circles: Software will take the jobs of writers and translators, and AI-generated images ring the death...
New Yorker Cuts Ties With Critic Jackson Arn After Complaints About Behavior
The New Yorker has parted ways with its art critic after the magazine received complaints about his behavior at its 100th anniversary party in February, according to two...
Dylan Field ‘Got a Real Kick’ Out of This Week’s Enron Relaunch
Figma cofounder Dylan Field is seemingly a big Enron fan—or rather, of the crypto-fueled semi-parodic relaunch of the company that hit the web earlier this week.Sporting an oversized...
