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Cover Story: Jill Scott’s Latest Classic
The woman is exposed, totally unaware of who faces her. She’s naked, but covered in thoughts, ideas, and beliefs. The phrases inscribed across her face and body are proclamations. Mantras like “I’m Free,” “Your rules are nothing,” and “I am my own body,” shield her like armor.
$4,500: Damien Hirst Artwork Added Alongside Works by Bob Dylan and Mr. Controversial
A Damien Hirst work with a mere four-figure estimate doesn’t show up often. Hirst’s “Butterfly Spin (acrylic on paper)” is set to appear in Halls Fine Art’s upcoming Modern and Contemporary Art and Design auction.
Flipped: How a Brooklyn Family Cashed In on a Banksy
In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, during Banksy’s month-long New York residency, a robot spray-painting a barcode appeared on a warehouse building in Coney Island. The stenciled work, commonly referred to as “Tagging Robot,” was one of several pop-up murals the elusive artist installed across the city that fall.
Cover Story: The Images Behind J. Cole’s The Fall Off
Album art still carries weight. Even in the streaming era, visuals remain one of the clearest ways artists communicate intention.
One of One: Haiti’s Team Outfits at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Olympic ceremonies have a history of rewarding symbolism, but they rarely reward risk. Most teams arrive wrapped in national colors and abstract flag cues. Haiti arrived with legacy.
250: Nigerian Modernism
More than 250 works unfold across 9 rooms at Tate Modern, and yet what hits first isn’t Nigerian Modernism’s scale, but its density. Textured, saturated, vibrant layers are everywhere in the exhibit. Fabrics look like paintings. Paintings are enveloped in music or poetry. Doors are sculpted with royalty and scenes of daily life. Nothing is quiet. Nothing is random. It’s an ordered chaos.
95% Accuracy: Magnetic Microrobots Eliminate Stroke Clots and Tumors in Major Medical Breakthrough.
ETH Zurich has unveiled one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the year, and somehow it’s still flying under the radar. Their research team, led by microrobotics expert Bradley Nelson and postdoctoral engineer Fabian Landers, has created tiny magnetic microrobots that can steer through blood vessels and deliver drugs directly into stroke clots or tumors with 95% accuracy.
COP30 Belém Brazil: A New Climate Reality Emerges at the UN Summit
As world leaders continue to gather at COP30 in Belém, Brazil (November 10–21) to shape the next decade of climate policy, the latest scientific data provides a clear and urgent backdrop: greenhouse-gas concentrations have reached record highs, global temperatures continue to climb, and the world remains far off the path required to limit warming to 1.5 °C.
Paris Photo 2025: The Fair Defining Contemporary Photography
This weekend, the world turns its lens to Paris for the 28th edition of Paris Photo 2025; an event that’s not just an art fair but the single largest gathering on the planet dedicated to photography and image-based art.
1,900% Stock Gains and Hate Mail: Welcome to Quantum Investing
Rigetti Computing Inc. and D-Wave Quantum Inc. make products that so far have few real world applications. They’re burning through cash and aren’t expected to generate significant amounts of revenue for years. Despite all that, investors can’t get enough of them.