>"NFTs drove 2021’s most-hyped art sales but the tech underpinning them raises environmental and long-term value concerns."

"THE LAND SURROUNDING the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers—site of current-day Portland, Oregon, and its greater metropolitan area—was not that long ago one of the navels of continental civilization. The historical homeland _...Read More_

>"By interfering in appointments, the government is trying to shape museums and trusts in its own image, says the _...Read More_

"How to explain the failures of postwar liberalism without attributing any fault to postwar liberalism? Blame the rich."

>"Since early summer, three pandemic clocks have been ticking. The first pertains to the coronavirus’s Delta variant, which has sent daily case numbers soaring more than tenfold since June. The second clock is more predictable: The _...Read More_

‘On Broadway’ documentary offers hope for New York theater

Zakiya Dalila Harris’s psychological thriller grapples with ambition and inequality in the workplace.

>"How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice"

>"Extending human habitability to outer space requires learning to live more carefully and sensitively as a species interlocked with others."

>"by Marie de Brugerolle   The concept of Post-Performance Future that I first laid out in issue 63 of Mousse _...Read More_

>"This has been, economically, the worst year in the industry’s history. And yet fashion is more relevant than ever."

The first centuries of U.S. history underline how strange the country’s bid for hegemony was. As Wertheim notes, before the mid-twentieth century Americans tended to claim that “their nation was exceptional because it did not covet armed _...Read More_