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2024 September


Out of the Sky

Out of the Sky

The remarkable rise of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Russia’s increasing isolation on the world stage, is likely to alter this arrangement soon, but a U.S. astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, launched off from Baikonur as recently as this past March.


How Natural Are We?

How Natural Are We?

Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boat—a green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which he’d got for his birthday.


Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole’s Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: “‘Watteau—A dream of Watteau’s, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Clouds’.”


Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

The show’s focus will be on the 27 months in 1888-90 that Van Gogh spent in Provence, initially working in the town of Arles, partly at the Yellow House, and, after mutilating his ear, in the asylum just outside Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence.


Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlett’s life and career—from the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive country—the curators hope to recast a dichotomy that has been used to structure exhibitions and texts about her work: the contrast between her decades-long printmaking practice and her commissions for public monuments in the 1980s.


What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

One of them, NextGen Jane, imagined a future where, ahead of your gynecology appointment, you could simply mail a sealed tampon to a lab for analysis; the results might indicate that you had an eighty-per-cent chance of endometriosis, making it worthwhile to undergo surgery and find out for sure.


AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

Hephaestus Analytical is a London-based tech company that integrates AI analysis and machine learning trained from sampled data sets, alongside scientific tests, provenance research, and “connoisseurly expertise to analyze works.


Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

A study by the Center for Democracy and Technology found that “a majority of teachers still report that generative AI has made them more distrustful of whether their students’ work is actually theirs.” Such suspicions have been paired with real questions about the efficacy of A.I.-detection tools, including one concerning finding that showed A.I.