The RISD Museum highlights the fragile beauty and striking designs of centuries-old examples of wallpaper from the collection ...

How feminism and debates about women riding horses helped produce first, horse-girl stories, and then dragon-babe fiction.

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...

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B. Pladek's speculative tale about the dark future of education, 'Teach Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness,' appears on io9 ...

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Caroline is the chicest girl in London,” designer Peter Mikic says of his client, French fashion designer Caroline Sciamma.

The old and the new meet in our pick of the year's finest architecture stories. New cultural institutions, rediscovered modernist marvels, world-class transport infrastructure, interviews, and our ...

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New York is the backdrop for famous holiday films such as “Miracle on 34th Street,” “Home Alone 2” and “Elf.” This year came a less felicitous kind when a video appeared of a woman ...

From a piece of cloth that may have belonged to Alexander the Great to an image of our galaxy's central black hole, here's our pick of controversial science stories in 2024. Disagreements about ...