Marica Vilcek shares her story in a new memoir, from her early life and escape from Czechoslovakia to her 30-year career at The Met, and the decision to create the Vilcek Foundation to champion immigr...
The Transit Museum honors a NYC icon, Ayoung Kim goes stargazing at MoMA PS1, a puppy persona performance, and more to plan your week in New York.
The Senate must now vote on the bill, which sets annual allocations for the NEA, NEH, Smithsonian, and other cultural programs.
Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet is part performance, part artist book, and part financial experiment.
Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.
One of the most exciting developments in modern astrophysics isn’t merely our standard “concordance cosmology” model, but rather the cracks that seem to be emerging in it. Sure, we&#...
Although the Universe constantly evolves, astronomers rarely see that evolution. This snippet from a structure-formation simulation, with the expansion of the Universe scaled out, represents billions ...
In 1895, the world’s top scientist predicted wrong. Epically wrong. The scientist was Lord Kelvin. Born in early nineteenth-century Ireland to a mathematics teacher, he was from his youngest summers a...
Members of Gen Z have grown up hearing that our attention spans are shrinking and that our lives will be defined by the eight-second scroll and an endless stream of content. The narrative is that we&#...
For nearly 100 years, the United States has been the world’s leader in a wide variety of scientific fields. No other country has: invested as much in fundamental scientific research, has made mo...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued a warning to the world’s workers in May 2025: “You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, you’re going to lose it to someone who uses AI.” I bet he’s right. The future ...
In 1999, during the last Burning Man of the last century, I returned to my camp on the edge of the playa after a long night out socializing to find a brand-new tent set up next to my dusty old one. Wh...
Since the end of the Second World War, technology and management have evolved together like twin helices. Each new machine has required a new way of organizing people around it. The mainframe gave us ...
We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when science sto...
Since 2015, more than 1,000 U.S. government personnel working across the world have reported symptoms linked to Havana Syndrome, an acute illness marked by sudden headache, nausea, and the hearing of ...
