In Brief
Silicon Valley is convinced that self-driving cars are the future of transport, and that in a few decades, we'll look back at the vehicles of today — massive hunks of glass and metal hurtling around, powered by dumb humans — with disbelief.
Art
The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
Opinion
Collectors choose to buy art based on their interest in the work itself, not whether it matches the color of their living room drapes, right?
In Brief
PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its "stunt burgers," is hoping Basquiat's name will help sell a $64 burger. It's enough to make a starving artist cry.
Art
“When I got there, I found the park filled with men in the same horny, hungry state of mind I was in … I can’t remember ever seeing so many gorgeous black men in any one place.”
In Brief
Snails with beards, rectal trumpeting, and ditties about King Arthur abound in Terry Gilliam's never-before-seen deleted animations for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Art
If you've ever read Japanese author Haruki Murakami's magical realist fiction — filled with characters like a six-foot-tall "superfrog," a human data processor named Calcutec, and a cat killer who makes flutes out of cats' souls — and wished someone would turn his bizarre world into a video game, yo
In Brief
The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, which opened this past weekend in Harlem, says its target audience is kids between ages three and eight, but art lovers of any age will likely find it worth a visit.
Books
Along with vinyl records and vintage synthesizers, typewriters have made a nostalgia-fueled resurgence in the digital age.
In Brief
Dogs in Wes Anderson films typically have a bad time.
Art
For two weeks last year, Canadian photographer David Burdeny spent his nights 200 feet underground, shooting the surreal opulence of the Moscow Metro.
News
The first human mission to Mars is, supposedly, closer than ever, with a one-way trip to the (watery!) Red Planet scheduled for 2024.