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One of José María Velasco's masterpieces, on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, manages to blend together three eras of Mexican history.

Kill Tony’s parade of jesters debase themselves before a vile king.

The Academy said Krasznahorkai won for ‘his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.’

A Tulane University anthropologist found a Roman soldier's headstone while clearing brush, setting off a repatriation quest.

In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]

Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat—grown from the cells of an animal in a lab or factory—has only been seen at a handful of high-end restaurants. There are entirely practical reasons the stuff has yet to make its debut at McDonald’s, but also bizarre, conspiratorial ones; some […]