June 2026

What happens if, for a moment, we adopt the perspective of a satellite orbiting overhead, kilometers away, looking down at our planet from above? It is certainly getting much more crowded up there than it once was. Technological advancement, some of it increasingly inscrutable to ordinary people, has opened an entirely new politics of power […]

In 1884, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Liberty Enlightening the World arrived in pieces and was assembled in New York Harbor, a gift from France, and there it has remained for more than 140 years, presiding over social and political shifts, booms and busts, centennials and now, this summer, the United States’ semiquincentennial. Hundreds of replicas exist

Art historian and curator Paco Barragán makes a compelling argument that biennials negotiate a set of contradictions: “It is at once local and global, political and aesthetic, critical and institutional, temporary and perennial. Its success, however, comes at the cost of a growing sense of saturation.” In many countries, this negotiation results in spectacle that

Addison, which maintained its status as San Diego’s only three-Michelin-star restaurant when this year’s stars were announced on June 24, has a new kind of glow. On May 26, William Bradley, the founding chef who’s been at the helm of the restaurant since its 2006 debut, unveiled Addison’s first major makeover. Bradley, who constantly thinks