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A history of the ‘exquisite corpse’ in art shows how it embodies surrealist ideas of freedom, community and radical ...

In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

How can we build more humane zoos? Will it ever be ethical to build them at all? And what drives us to create zoos and natural history museums in the first place? Is it a curiosity about the world ...

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope ...