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The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife.

On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center

“I feel my fingers have eyes, ” June Leaf once said. The need to literally feel her way through her work is a primary subject of her art.

The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one.

Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement.

Three high-profile buildings by the eminent Ghanian British architect have just been completed, but allegations of sexual misconduct have severely damaged his prospects for future commissions.

Every low-resolution frame of Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf, shot on a mobile phone nearly twenty-years-old, enacts a drama of form.

The Guerrilla Girls used indisputable data and a dry, polished style to show that the art world, contrary to its self-conception, was deeply retrograde.

In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.

The world’s salt lakes are the canary in the coal mine for the climate crisis, and they are shrinking at a drastic rate.

A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.

2025 was a banner year for clean energy.

At the UN, leaders confronted compounding crises of territorial violence and digital extractivism.

A growing body of research is pointing to the critical, but unappreciated, role that older animals play in ensuring the survival of wildlife populations. Conservationists say the new findings should lead to policies that protect these elders and the essential knowledge they impart.

Drought conditions have been worsening for months in the Southeast. Now tens of thousands of acres are burning, displacing people and destroying dozens of homes.

Karim Sadjadpour on the extended cease-fire and continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

The truce is hanging by a thread despite Trump’s extension.

This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park

Reopening the Druzhba pipeline was the final hurdle stopping Budapest from ending its opposition.