Your Concise New York Art Guide for August 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for August 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month.
Florida’s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters
The Highwaymen’s paintings are an environmental time capsule for a state highly threatened by the climate crisis.
Féral Benga, the Cabaret Dancer Who Redefined Black Masculinity
A double portrait of the dancer and Harlem Renaissance icon at Swann Galleries evokes his allure as an artist’s model and his indelible imprint on modernism.
An Artist’s Hand Towels, Woven During the Pandemic
Doerte Weber’s weavings reproduce the ubiquitous charts and graphics related to infection rates, deaths, and unemployment.
A Photographer’s Otherworldly Portrayal of Créolité
In Widline Cadet’s photographs, the motherland haunts.
Shared antibodies may push COVID-19 variants, study finds
Researchers have found that people recovering from COVID-19 and those vaccinated against the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, produce identical clones, or groups, of antibody-producing white blood cells.
Neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 sugar coat
Researchers have identified two sugar-binding proteins that impede the viral entry of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants. The team may have found the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of the virus, with potential for pan-variant therapeutic interventions.
Shark diversity unaffected when the dinosaurs were wiped out, study finds
A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. But what happened to the sharks? According to a new study, shark-tooth diversity remained relatively c…
Mutation-mapping tool could yield stronger COVID boosters, universal vaccines
Researchers have developed a platform which can quickly identify common mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 virus that allow it to escape antibodies and infect cells, which could inform the development of more effective booster vaccines and tailored antibody t…
The Potential Impact of Automation on Manufacturing Profitability
Robot density has increased more than tenfold but its impact on agriculture suggests automation of manufacturing still is in early days.