Required Reading

This week, the oldest mummies in the world, whitewashing an autocrat, a useful reading list about Ukraine, SPLC released their new report on hate, seeking a new language around race, and more.

Alone in the Dying of the Light

One thing that comes across in the drawings of Rackstraw Downes is the austere, almost monastic life he has lived in order to make art.

Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?

Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.

Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit

With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. in Namibia show for the first time the course of an acceleration process in a stella…