Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.
Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day.
Art Basel's complicity in Qatar's persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more.
Through themes of encoding, looping, and sampling, “Video Craft” brings the craft roots of emerging film technologies into focus. Now on view in San Francisco.
Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.
This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
When most of us were children, and we went to a rural area with clear skies overhead at night, we were all greeted by the same familiar sight: a dark night sky, glittering with many hundreds or even t...
American culture demands that pain be productive. Historian Kate Bowler explores how the obsession with finding meaning in suffering turns into what she calls “purpose monsters”: the need to make ever...
Gretchen Rubin is a genuine multi-hyphenate. She began her career as a clerk in the Supreme Court and switched to writing when she had an idea for a book, Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide, w...
There are, in general, two ways in which scientific advancement occurs. There’s the slow, incremental change that represents most scientific advances: where the existing scientific foundation ge...
Jim Al-Khalili introduces the technologies emerging from the second quantum revolution: computers that exploit superposition to solve problems that would take today’s best supercomputers billion...
From a scientific perspective, studying consciousness is a bit like trying to describe the singularity inside a black hole from the window of a spacecraft in its gravitational orbit. We can see how th...
There is a rich and long history to the philosophy of reading. In his Phaedrus, Plato attacked reading as corrupting true philosophical dialectic. Later, in his 1597 book Essays, Francis Bacon wrote t...