Lotty Rosenfeld Weaponized the Line
The Chilean artist knew that survival under authoritarianism requires both sustenance and nerve — something to live on and something to stand for.
January 19, 2026
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This Is the Year We Redefine Art Institutions
I sat down with curator eunice bélidor and arts administrator Dejha Carrington to discuss what have become reductive ideas about the role of art museums, my own included.
January 19, 2026
Uman’s Diasporic Abstraction
The artist paints the distance between the homeland you lose and the one you try to dream back into existence.
January 19, 2026
What the Smithsonian Won’t Say About Grandma Moses
The benign narrative of the beloved artist must be deconstructed, as she also embodies the US’s detrimental values.
January 19, 2026
Activists Fight to Salvage the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art”
President Trump's plans to sell a federal building housing works of art about Social Security is an attempt to erase the country’s history, a new petition argues.
January 19, 2026
10 JWST images that reveal the Universe as never before
From 2022 onward, JWST began revolutionizing our cosmic perspective. This side-by-side view shows the same object, the Pillars of Creation, as captured by JWST in both mid-infrared light (at left) and...
January 19, 2026
The Gandalf Effect: The most important thing for any leader
I’ve known a great many leaders in my time. Bosses, CEOs, heads, provosts, managers, politicians, coaches, supervisors, managing directors — whatever you call them, I’ve met my fair share of them. Som...
January 19, 2026
Measure–Meet–Repeat: Why tracking happiness is crucial to AI at work
Every major technological shift arrives with bold promises of efficiency and productivity. The current wave of artificial intelligence is no different. The forecasts are breathless: tasks automated, w...
January 19, 2026
The Iranian Islamic Republic’s nine lives
The images from Tehran and other Iranian cities are undeniably dramatic. Protesters chanting for regime change, security forces firing on demonstrators, thousands reported killed in what’s being descr...
January 19, 2026
Davos forum buffeted by a world of contradictory forces
One of the laziest truisms heard from political speeches, conferences or, dare I say it, newspaper columns is the claim that we live at “a time of uncertainty.” This is always true, for no one can eve...
January 19, 2026
New JWST lens survey: can it save the expanding Universe?
One of the most difficult things about being inside our own Universe is that we only get one perspective, from our location here on Earth, to measure it from. We are stuck within our Solar System — as...
January 14, 2026
How “tribology” became a new industrial science
In 1964, spirited debates erupted at a conference in Cardiff, Wales. The source of the consternation was extreme production delays that stemmed from malfunctioning equipment at iron and steel plants a...
January 14, 2026
Do AI models reason or regurgitate?
Last month, I wrote a piece here in Big Think suggesting that the public is in denial over the emerging power and associated risks of AI. Many people reacted defensively, insisting that today’s AI sys...
January 14, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a version of its coding AI for regular people
If you follow Anthropic, you're probably familiar with Claude Code. Since the fall of 2024, the company has been training its AI models to use and navigate computers like a human would, and the co...
January 16, 2026
New users can get a year of one of our favorite budgeting apps for only $50
A new year is the perfect time to get your spending in order, and if you're not trying to build your own spreadsheet, budgeting apps are one of the best ways to do it. To save yourself some money ...
January 18, 2026
Washington is the latest state pursuing an age verification law for porn sites
Washington state residents may soon be forced to produce IDs before getting onto websites with pornographic content. Within the state's House of Representatives, Rep. Mari Leavitt introduced House...
January 18, 2026
This UGreen 3-in-1 wireless charger is 32 percent off right now
You can easily spruce up your nightstand or desk by decluttering a bit, replacing some of those annoying charging cables with a good wireless charging setup. One of our favorites that can handle three...
January 18, 2026
Microsoft issues emergency fix after a security update left some Windows 11 devices unable to shut down
If you weren't able to shut down your Windows 11 device recently, Microsoft has rolled out an emergency fix addressing a couple of critical bugs that popped up with its latest January 2026 Windows...
January 18, 2026
Nearly Half of Americans Want U.S. to Take a Less Active Global Role, Even as Many Back Venezuela Action: Survey
Nearly half of Americans say they want the United States to take a "less active" role in solving the world's problems, even as many support military intervention in specific cases such as Venezuela, a...
January 18, 2026
Employee of Slain Michoacán Mayor 'Sold' Him in Exchange for Drugs, Report Claims
According a new report, testimony from people linked to the case revealed that Samuel "N," the former director of Public Relations and Protocol for the Uruapan city hall, agreed to take part in a plan...
January 18, 2026