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A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...

An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

You’ve lived this life before

Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .

On pricing

Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More

Turfin’ Safari

Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46

Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026

The Christophers

Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”

Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong

We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...

Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....

The Crystal Skull

Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...

Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path

The Car-Crash Conspiracy

Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert

Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...

Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...

Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...

Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...

I am Sámi

What Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?

The sterilisation-seekers

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

Avoiding the purity loop

Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

Settling

How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

Trump's Clash of Civilizations

“Even”

Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself