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Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, curator Kimberly Drew, and The Kitchen Executive Director Legacy Russell are among the 28 members of the advisory team.
The Pulitzer-winning journalist said he'll keep writing, but the "daily journalism thing is done.”
This week, we honor a quintessential LA artist, one of Disney’s first Native artists, a librarian who moonlighted as a collector, and more.
The new documentary follows a Paiute teenager as he navigates his passion for running and the story of his great-grandfather, who escaped from an Indigenous residential school.
Here’s to celebrating what brings us joy, great and small.
Plus, Zohran Mamdani’s arts committee, Frida Kahlo sets price record (again), John Oliver hawks a Bob Ross, and more in this week’s news.
“I feel so safe and unselfconscious here in my garage studio.”
This week: Lankton Greer’s dolls live on, Indigenous glass artists, AI slop recipes take over the holidays, contact lens art, chronically offline hobbies, and much more.
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
Parenting is often framed as a battle between discipline and chaos, but Dr. Becky Kennedy argues that the real story lives beneath the behavior we see. Kennedy traces how early relationships tea...
We are at a tipping point. In the next 25 years, technologies like AI, clean energy, and bioengineering are poised to reshape society on a scale few can imagine. Peter Leyden draws on decades of...
What if the genome you were born with wasn’t fixed? Eric Kelsic, CEO of Dyno Therapeutics, explains how gene therapy is moving from promise to reality, delivering treatments directly to cells and pote...
Every day, we have a choice whether we take our lives, our existence, our freedoms, and our moments for granted, or whether we express appreciation and gratitude for the good things that exist. The bi...
It’s the spring of 1951. As the Korean War escalates and the world engages in scandalized debate over Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s recent conviction for espionage, students at Swarthmore College in Pe...
Ever since I first read Janine Benyus’s Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, I’ve descended into a rabbit hole in search of what “intelligence” really means (and who has it). Perhaps that’s why ...
The verb deter was coined in the English language in the 16th century from the Latin deterreo (to frighten) and first applied systematically in 18th- and 19th-century criminological texts. During the ...
When I was growing up, mental health was rarely talked about. Most people knew someone who had gone to therapy and generally accepted it as a necessary step in getting the help they needed. But what h...
It’s no secret that there is a seemingly endless string of problems to address in the world. You don’t have to look hard to find people suffering from all sorts of maladies: from illness t...
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?- by Ville LähdeRead on Aeon
Citizens of Myanmar describe what daily life is like in their isolated, war-torn nation- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon