June 2026

Belgian artist Mark Manders is arguably primarily a sculptor. His best-known works are iconic, monumental half-busts, evoking classical art and the entire tradition of anatomically correct academic sculpture in their perfect proportions and idealized, serene expression, yet always presented as still in process. Many of his pieces look like raw clay, soft and malleable, but […]

In recent weeks, a slate of today’s most prominent tech figures—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, among others—took the podium at university commencements to address an anxious Class of 2026, the first cohort to spend their entire college years alongside generative A.I. tools. (ChatGPT was launched in November

You have probably already decided where you are going this summer, or at least told yourself you have. The flights to the same islands are booked, the villa someone’s cousin swears by is half-paid, and the group chat has once again deadlocked over whether to do Ibiza for the third summer running. This is the

Last year, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, staged “This Is What You Get,” an exhibition of artwork by artist Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead. Critics’ reactions were mixed. The Guardian said of the artwork, “Does it stand up to scrutiny when removed from the context of the records and

Vibey Afro-Caribbean restaurant Lucia celebrated its one-year anniversary this past weekend with three nights of Carnival-style festivities. And as the party, powered by dancers grooving alongside percussionist Denise Zavala and DJ Paper, got livelier and livelier on Friday, May 29, chef Cleophus Hethington was in the kitchen, quietly doing what he always does. Hethington, who