The National Gallery of Art's New Game - 'Artle' - Is 'Wordle' for Art Lovers
Art aficionados finally have a 'le' of their own! Here's how it works - you are shown one of the gallery's 150,000 artworks and you have to guess the artist who created it. If you’re wrong, you’ll be shown another piece by that creator—a process repeated until you’ve exhausted all four guesses. Don’t worry about spelling errors: The guess box is actually a dropdown menu of all the artists, so as long as you can correctly type in a few successive letters of an artist’s name, i
How Did This 2,000 Year Old Roman Sculpture End Up in a Goodwill in Texas?
Photo Courtesy of San Antonio Museum of Art / Michael Minasi Laura Young found a human head carved out of marble under a table at a Goodwill with a price tag of $34.99. It seemed like a pretty good deal, so she bought it and took it home. Then she did some Googling and found out it is a bust of a man named Drusus Germanicus, and that is was really, really old - as in first century old. She learned that the 2,000-year-old piece once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I
