Certain colonial-era texts function less as scholarly treatises and more as intellectual demolition charges, forever altering the landscape they sought to merely survey.

I’ve already published a first take on the 2026 Whitney Biennial, as have a bunch of the other critics—consensus forms fast these days! So far that consensus says “above average.” Not that I disagree ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...