What the pyramid looked like. Originally encased in white lime stone with a peak made of solid gold

"Today, I don’t think he would be a painter because he was such an experimenter at heart... Would he be doing NFTs? I don’t know. He would definitely be looking at different forms of expression." —Joachim Pissarro on his great-grandfather, Camille Pissarro

"'Art is monetised. Art has become the Olympics where there’s only a few winners. Art is a community thing, not a competitive thing,' says Käthe from Guerilla Girls, calling for more cheap art that everyone can own." – Deborah Nash

The search for purpose

"Gunter Sachs became an assiduous collector of pop art and in 1972 opened a gallery in Hamburg. The Warhol exhibition he staged there was one of the first in Europe, although as Sachs's son Rolf recalls: 'Nothing sold. My father was highly embarrassed, and he bought most of the

We love this so much it hurts.

We have a thing for boxes.

8-bit graphics are THAT old?!

You’re killing us.

We love this. The artist practices constantly—it shows in the work.

You have our sympathies.

We mourn the loss of Frank Stella.

We love this. The bristles!

Wylfċen I only just learned about calquing, there goes the rest of my day

A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman emerald green glass bowl. 📷 The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection… #Archaeology

Queen chess-piece from the famous 12th-century ‘Lewis Chessmen’. A look that seems to say ‘We are not amused!’ 😁 This characterful medieval chess piece was carved from walrus ivory c. 1150-1200. From a large gaming hoard with around 80 chess pieces, found on the Isle of Lewis,

The Hove Amber Cup. A rare Bronze Age vessel carved from a single piece of Baltic amber about 3,500 years ago. Found in Sussex in 1856 inside Hove Barrow, a huge Bronze Age burial mound. Brighton Museum 📷 my own brightonmuseums.org.uk/discovery/hist… #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Dear lord.