I want to add my voice that this has been happening sporadically the past year or so, it's not new.
The artifact does not necessarily have to be new, but it happens when it has requirements and I do not fit those requirements. The moment my mouse touches the word "requirements" to see what they are, the game crashes to desktop. If the artifact happens to still be in the game (Was created before last save), I can usually read it perfectly fine when I'm back in the game, and no crashes happen. Yet, few RL weeks later, I might bump into the same crash again.
In case it helps with debugging I am also attaching the crash dump. This particular crash happened after an inspired adventurer came back home bringing the sword of muhammed. I'm not Muslim and I don't benefit from the sword. I still had not confirmed the receipt of the sword. The event window was open, I hovered over the sword, then hovered over requirements and the game crashed to desktop.