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On a rainy afternoon last weekend, plans got cancelled and I found myself at a loose end. Given that I’m someone who likes to have backup…

We are repeatedly sold a painfully two-dimensional picture of the motivations of those seeking shelter in Britain. According to this picture, migrants are eager to experience…

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Despite careful choreography for succession, even best-laid plans often unravel

December 11, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSatirical Art Exhibit Takes on Tech Titans and Our AI FutureBillionaire-headed machines lampoon tech power and the…

It is an image of an unnamed black man with his eyes closed and his innards exposed. Drawn with care and precision, the image may be…

The Courtauld has unveiled an £82m campus redevelopment it is calling a “once-in-a-generation transformation” of its Grade-I listed building, Somerset House, in London.The Stirling prize-winning architects…

I am an only child. My father was killed in a car accident when I was 14 and my mother was 47. We were really tightly…

In a single week, collectors spent a whopping $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses. While that $236 million Klimt portrait made headlines, plenty…

From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks…