As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves.
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.
The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley.
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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...
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...
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...
Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy shots at the tap of your screen.
Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.
With potential safety improvements and lower manufacturing costs, Na-ion batteries are coming of age at precisely the right time.
A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.
The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.
The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.
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