Here’s a new answer to the old question ‘why is there something rather than nothing?’ (It’s neither simple nor easy) ...

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge ...

In the summer of 1646 the idea of equality gained new and profound depths. We are still catching up with the consequences ...

Goats everywhere! Three-hour handstands! Magical doorknobs! Discover a whole new way of looking at a Cubist masterpiece ...

A strange man arriving on camelback – the artist Nora Abbott animates her grandfather’s story of a prospector’s last ride ...

Ancient specimens reveal how animals began to move half a billion years ago – and even the first known example of ‘handedness ...

In his short documentary Their Eyes, the French filmmaker Nicolas Gourault spotlights the voices of several of these ...

Serving as living metaphors, an artist’s self-contained miniature worlds show us the wondrous and fragile beauty of our biosphere ...

It is almost four o’clock in the morning. As a woman in my late 40s, I have become prone to waking at this witching hour, as the early sunlight meets the night, sliding across the earth like a red ...

According to Leibniz: ‘we can find no true or existent fact … without there being a sufficient reason why it is thus and not otherwise.’ And, as Spinoza wrote: ‘For each thing there must be assigned a ...

From the homeland of the Lenape people to a small Dutch colony to a battlefield of the American Revolution to the global cultural capital it’s become today, the island of Manhattan has undergone ...