The artist is now represented by Pace, along with three other galleries. Plus, NYC has a new culture commissioner, closures at art schools, and more industry news.
Sharon Gilad-Gutnick has witnessed many children see for the first time. After having their cataracts surgically removed, the children can see the world but don’t recognize faces well. Even among thos...
“There is nothing in the world more powerful than a good story,” Tyrion Lannister, played by Peter Dinklage, declares in the infamously lackluster finale of Game of Thrones. It sounds cliché, but in W...
One of the great mysteries in the Universe is that, in all the vastness of space, we have yet to detect any sort of life out there beyond our own planet. Whether microbial and simple, multicellular an...
What if humanity is the galaxy’s only advanced civilization? Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets, we have found no evidence of other intelligent life. This video...
When I first started working in venture capital, I was given a seemingly straightforward assignment: Get to know the most successful founders we’d invested in and figure out what they had in common. I...
In the opening chapter of his book, Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that philosophers have always had a strange, pathological obsession with “truth.” Truth is seen as the greatest goo...
Anytime you reach deeper into the unknown than ever before, you should not only wonder about what you’re going to find, but also worry about what sort of demons you might accidentally unearth. I...
It is March 27, 1933. Here is a headline in the New York Times: “Hitler Is Supreme Under Enabling Act.” Under that headline: “Chancellor, Preeminent Over Cabinet, Is Now Practically the German Governm...
Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This normally indicates a period of greatly reduced solar activity, but it's still too...
Humanity’s Last Exam is a PhD-level benchmark designed to test the limits of AI reasoning. Although Google’s Gemini 3 scored a staggering 48.4%, experts stress that this does not indicate the arrival ...
Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards ...
Agriculture in India is under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. We speak to Meha Jain, an associate professor of geospatial data sciences, food systems at the University of ...
Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-...
Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out wh...