The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Take a kaleidoscopic journey through the early history of film, inspired by an enduring fascination with motion and form ...

The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

Empathy, the sharing of feelings with another person and consequently caring about them, is typically a virtue in our society. ‘I hear you’ and ‘I feel your pain’ are said with a sense of compassion ...

With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered ...

It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, ...

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, ...

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the notion that AIs could possess some form of consciousness, argues Jonathan Birch, ...

is a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Otago, as well as an external research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He is interested in understanding ...

In the 1930s, a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître transformed our understanding of the Universe when he envisioned its birth as a cosmic explosion. According to Lemaître, the ...

In the events series Letters Live, performers read notable letters – old and new, original and written by others – in front of a live audience. In this video, as part of the Letters Live event at ...

Pompeii is famous for being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which buried the once-thriving ancient Roman city under some 5 m of volcanic debris. With a dark irony, it was this ...