A ceramicist puts a playful twist on Italian Renaissance pottery with dirty jokes, emojis and colourful commentary on ...

A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

Moral panics about erotica have coursed through the country’s history. Why do so many Americans think of porn as harm?

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Athens in Greece. She is the author of Chemistry’s Metaphysics (2024).

Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph – the world’s first device capable of capturing and playing back sound. By 1888, Edison had relaunched it for broader commercial use. To promote his ...