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Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the Rain

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, and front man, has engaged in innumerable…

Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it was acquiring a company called io, an artificial-intelligence-forward product-development firm co-founded, last year, by Jony Ive, the vastly influential designer known for his work with…

David Hockney’s “Going Up Garrowby Hill”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David Hockney. The cover of the June 9, 2025, issue features Hockney’s…

The Criminalization of Venezuelan Street Culture

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the morning of April 23, 2024, Claudio David Balcane González, a twenty-six-year-old musician from the state of Aragua, in Venezuela, arrived at the Texas border. In the previous three months,…

Two Paths for A.I.

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last spring, Daniel Kokotajlo, an A.I.-safety researcher working at OpenAI, quit his job in protest. He’d become convinced that the company wasn’t prepared for the future of its own technology, and…

Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Sebastião Salgado, who died last week, of leukemia, at the age of eighty-one, was among the most famous documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Throughout more than four decades of epic,…

Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the entire museum—is forty-seven. Normally, the age…

John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Summer is a season ripe for…