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…