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Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to...

Ali Eyal’s Forever War

The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later

Does culture make emotion?

Small changes to big systems

Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?

The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art

Finding Sanity in Sprezzatura: The Lost 16th-century Italian Art of Living with Fluency, Serenity, and Openness to Wonder

Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes

Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls’ Detroit Museum

How a Texas Town Became an Art Project

Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

Thaddeus Mosley, Beloved Self-Taught Sculptor, Dies at 99

My Road Trip With the Do-Gooding Cactus Smugglers

“What if we taught students to use AI critically,...

Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road

New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a...

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

Ali Eyal Gives Testimony

Gugusse and the Automaton

Elizabeth Saloka’s Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons

GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war...

The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season!...

In Paraguay, Architecture Doesn’t Come at the Expense of Nature at ‘Un Bosque en La Casa’

The Hidden Hope in the Darkness

The NY Times went back through a century of...

Sense of Scents

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

California’s Deadliest Avalanche Turned on One Choice

Ever behind the sunset

Chronicles of a Needless War

The eye of the mathematician

Considering infinity

AI Figures Out the Rules of a Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Board Game from Ancient Rome

Inside the Automats Where Coin-Operated Machines Created a Modern, Democratic Dining Experience

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment

Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse &...

What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

Confused about donations

How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible

An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War

Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to the Wisdom of Trees in a Cinematic Walk Through Kew Gardens

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

Biennial Hangover