Art Basel Qatar's Complicity
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.
March 11, 2026
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Merging Craft Practices and New Media at the Museum of Craft and Design
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.
March 11, 2026
Mid-Century Modernism Goes Rogue in “Chair-ish”
Artists Alex Chitty and Norman Teague give each other the permission needed to do something as heretical as saw an Eames chair into pieces.
March 11, 2026
Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés
This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.
March 11, 2026
Text Messages Reveal How University of Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show
The school’s president and provost discussed removing artworks “of concern” before shuttering Victor Quiñonez’s exhibition, alarming free speech advocates.
March 11, 2026
Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
March 11, 2026
Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
What is being offered as recognition often operates as a way of organizing power, determining not only what is seen, but who is positioned to benefit from that visibility.
March 11, 2026
Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
March 11, 2026
JWST peers inside a dying star’s “exposed cranium”
Whenever stars are born, their masses determine their fates. The (modern) Morgan–Keenan spectral classification system, with the surface temperature range of each star class shown above it, in k...
March 09, 2026
Why pain doesn’t need to teach you anything
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...
March 09, 2026
Gretchen Rubin’s simple secrets for a happier, less cluttered life
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...
March 09, 2026
NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed
Ever since the final years of the original space race, NASA has been unrivaled as the world leader in space sciences and space exploration. In particular, NASA astrophysics has brought us a wide range...
March 11, 2026
The 3 types of reading (and the 2 you’ll pick)
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...
March 11, 2026
What to buy as a yoga beginner: Must-haves vs non-essentials
Here are our recommendations for the must-haves you need when you start yoga.
March 06, 2026
China puts a sodium-ion battery into an EV for the first time — it can drive 248 miles on a single charge
A new vehicle is the first mass-produced passenger EV with a viable sodium-based alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries.
March 06, 2026
Could gut microbes hold the secret to aging well? A researcher unpacks the emerging science
A researcher dives into the latest research on how the health of the gut microbiome can influence the aging process.
March 06, 2026
'Striking' footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before
Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.
March 06, 2026
Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.
March 06, 2026
One of the most accurate smart scales we have tested is now at its lowest-ever price
Save 19% on the Renpho MorphoScan Nova smart scale at Amazon — but hurry, this flash deal ends tonight.
March 06, 2026
Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every yea...
March 06, 2026