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How the photographer Justine Kurland reframes utopia in the radical freedom of teenage girls, women and outsider communities ...

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In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time ...

Are the laws of classical physics as we currently understand them missing something important about how the Universe works? This radical notion lies at the heart of a new proposal by the mineralogist ...

Only four known Maya books have survived both Spanish colonial destruction and the passage of time. Created in the 11th or 12th century, the Códice Maya de México (the Maya Codex of Mexico) is the ...

Interviewed in a 1977 documentary about her life and work as a painter, Georgia O’Keeffe, then 90, spoke of her hunger for the desert. ‘When I got to New Mexico, that was mine. As soon as I saw it, ...