The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, ...

is assistant professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the 13th ...

is senior lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the the University of Melbourne in Australia. A cultural anthropologist working in the areas of religion, technology, and death, she also works with the ...

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know that I was vulnerable. From childhood on, I felt stress as acutely as a needle puncture – the familiar tightness in my ribcage, the trembling in my upper ...

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day has fallen by more than 40 per cent over the past 20 years ...

Broadcast at Times Square, this kaleidoscopic reimagining of a powwow dance celebrates the strength of Indigenous women ...

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the notion that AIs could possess some form of consciousness, argues Jonathan Birch, ...

My recollections of my grandfather are mostly from childhood visits to my grandparents’ summer cottage in East Hampton in the 1950s and ’60s. The village, with its magnificent Atlantic beaches on the ...

Most of us think it’s a bad thing to die. I certainly don’t want to die any time soon, and you probably don’t either. There are, of course, exceptions. Some people actively want to die. They might be ...

is a visiting fellow at the University of Toronto. He writes on the history of the United States, human rights, and religion and politics. President Barack Obama insists that the United States defines ...

It was once common, in Western societies at least, to think of plants as the passive, inert background to animal life, or as mere animal fodder. Plants could be fascinating in their own right, of ...