Roughly eight months have passed since Hermès, the French luxury brand behind the famously pricey Birkin handbag, scored a legal victory over a digital artist known as Mason Rothschild, who produced a line of handbag-themed NFTs called MetaBirkins. “This is not the end of the case,” the artist told Artnet News at the time, after the…
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, when scientists were trying to frantically deduce how the disease was spreading, when we were rushing to buy masks and figuring out which “essential” businesses were still open, director Taika Waititi offered what would be one of many problematic celebrity takes. As deaths climbed and hospitals became short on…
The son of a once prominent Hollywood agent and executive has been charged in the murder of a woman investigators believe to be his wife and whose remains were found bagged inside a dumpster in Los Angeles this week, the police said. A Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said on Saturday that investigators believed the…
A number of ancient structures have been damaged in Afghanistan‘s rural countryside following four deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks between October 7 and 15. Ancient villages constructed from bricks and mud straw were destroyed during two initial earthquakes in the territory around Zinda Jan in the Herat province. At least 1,500 people…
Christie’s 20th Century evening sale concluded this evening (November 9) and proved a marathon, packed with blue-chip gems from several prestigious private collections, proffering a contrast to past seasons where a single blockbuster name—Rockefeller, for instance, or that of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—decided the entire tone of the auction season. The auction house…