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In the winter of 1996, a cadre of police officers met an airplane as it landed in Portland, Oregon. Santa Claus had come to town.  It was the early years of what would come to be known as Santacon, and the plane carried a contingent of pranksters aiming to create a bit of Yuletide mischief. […]

We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

Michaelina Wautier painted across genres, including those typically closed to women.

Two technological revolutions drove human beings to become the dominant species on this planet. The Agricultural Revolution gave us dominion over the biology of Earth. The Industrial Revolution gave us dominion over its physics. Now, powered by breakthroughs in our understanding of intelligence, a third revolution may be imminent. It could solve problems that once seemed impossible, like climate change and war. It could trigger transformations in technology that allow us to cure intractable diseases and send humanity to the stars. It could exponentially increase the wisdom of every human being on earth.

The National Gallery of London is hosting the first major exhibition of Joseph Wright, who explored moral quandaries at the dawn of the industrial age.

International art sales fell by 12% last year, marking the steepest drop in decades besides the 2009 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The term ‘pro-life’ can seem simple – but how Americans and advocacy groups interpret it varies widely.