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Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures

The story of Lisette Model and other photographers who shaped the way we historicize social movements today.

Mar 09, 2026

How a Texas Town Became an Art Project

With fewer than 700 residents, Kingsbury has become a hub for cultural governance and sovereignty, largely thanks to advocacy led by arts organization Habitable Spaces.

Mar 09, 2026

Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes

Joumana Asseily said she temporarily closed her gallery in Beirut amid evacuation orders last week

Mar 09, 2026

Ali Eyal’s Forever War

The Baghdad-born artist speaks about war and art, Amoako Boafo recreates his studio for an exhibition, Thaddeus Mosley passes away at 99, and how a small Texas town became a participatory art project.

Mar 10, 2026

Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness

If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,” said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction.

Mar 10, 2026

Epstein and Trump Portrayed as Titanic Lovers in New Anonymous Artwork

The sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump.

Mar 10, 2026

7 Art Books for Your March Reading List

Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.

Mar 10, 2026

Don't Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You

I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom.

Mar 10, 2026

Over 6,000 Sign Letter Opposing Russia’s Venice Biennale Pavilion

The petition, signed by cultural figures such as Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, comes as the European Union threatens to pull Biennale funding over Russia's inclusion.

Mar 10, 2026

US and Israel Strikes Damage 17th-Century Palace in Isfahan

The Safavid-era Chehel Sotoun palace, known for its richly detailed frescoes, is among several landmarks impacted in the recent attacks.

Mar 10, 2026

Please, No More Disaffected White Girls

Anika Jade Levy’s “Flat Earth” is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people.

Mar 10, 2026

The Whitney Biennial Is Here

Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day.

Mar 10, 2026

Ask Ethan: Do signals degrade as they travel through space?

Here on Earth, signal degradation is a real problem whenever we transmit information to one another. Signals like sound, light, and gravity spread out through space in three dimensions, becoming weake...

Mar 06, 2026

AI that acts before you ask is the next leap in intelligence

H. Ross Perot, former presidential candidate and founder of multinational IT company Electronic Data Systems (EDS), once said, “Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.”&nbs...

Mar 06, 2026

Starts With A Bang podcast #127 – Satellites and space pollution

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...

Mar 07, 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...

Mar 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...

Mar 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...

Mar 09, 2026

The right way to be a scientific contrarian

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...

Mar 10, 2026

The idea so strange Einstein thought it broke quantum physics

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...

Mar 10, 2026