Arts
The Spacetime of Fine Art
For the painter Matthew Phillips, past, present, and future meet at the tip of a brush.
Why Do So Many Scientists Want to be Filmmakers?
The problem with C.P. Snow’s famous two-cultures hypothesis.
Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.
Waiting For the Robot Rembrandt
What needs to happen for artificial intelligence to make fine art.
Andy Weir Visits the Moon
The best-selling writer of “The Martian” has a new book out, and it’s set closer to home.
