The Intelligence of Plants
What if plants are smarter than we think—a lot smarter?
Author: Cody Delistraty
Why Is the One Percent So Obsessed With Magic?
A profile of Steve Cohen, a.k.a. the Millionaires’ Magician, who’s made a killing doing parlor magic for the wealthy
Fra Angelico’s Divine Emotion
The fifteenth-century Italian artist Fra Angelico invented emotional interiority in art
What’s the Use of Beauty?
Edouard Manet’s notion of beauty changed starkly near the end of his life. Who determines what is or isn’t beautiful? And why are we so drawn to it?
Market Values
How close, really, is the link between art and society?
Her Name is Laure
An exhibition at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay centers on a black model named Laure in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and reinterrogates the role of black people in art history.
The Future of Writing
An exhibition at the British Library in London questions the future of writing.
How Germany’s Far Right is Co-opting Art History
What does Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1866 painting ‘Slave Market’ say about today’s extremist politics?
Sally Rooney’s Politics of Millennial Resignation
A review of Sally Rooney’s Normal People
In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play
An exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arab in Paris explores a century of shifting Arab power through the lens of soccer.
