Fern Hook, a 30-year-old independent artist in Scotland, noticed something familiar about “Marathon,” the upcoming video game by Bungie, the studio that created the Halo series and is now ...

Since the announcement of the first global Art Basel Awards earlier in 2025, there has been much anticipation about who will get the nod. Today (15 May), the winners – 36 ‘Medalists’ – have been ...

Bungie has been accused yet again of plagiarizing art, this time for its upcoming extraction shooter Marathon. The artist making these claims - 4nt1r34l - posted comparisons between their own ...

Physical contact with art is rarely encouraged by galleries. The use of furniture within modern and contemporary art has often played with this rule, offering—but not always providing—the ...

After spending nearly two decades as a fabricator in the art world, helping construct elaborate creations like Jeff Koons’ series of Balloon Dog sculptures, Ed Suman decided to try his hand at ...

But it now looks like at least a few of the visual design elements that appeared in the recent alpha test were lifted from eight-year old work by an outside artist. “The Marathon alpha released ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

This story has been updated with Bungie's statement. Bungie is, once again, being accused of using the designs of an independent artist without permission, pay, or attribution. In a post on X ...

We immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon and confirmed that a former Bungie artist included these in a texture sheet that was ultimately used ...

Art Basel has revealed the first cohort of medalists to be honoured with its newly-launched annual award series, selecting 36 leaders from across the contemporary art community. Winners include ...