This year, we visited the famously reclusive Jasper Johns at his barn in the Berkshire Mountains, caught up with Nick Cave and his fanciful Soundsuits on Chicago’s Northwest Side, looked at how and why artists exchange their work and tried to figure out the most important pieces of art made in the last 50 years. Below, a roundup of our favorite art stories of 2019.
Conventional wisdom seems to have been too pessimistic about how much the economy could grow before setting off inflation. In hindsight, a costly mistake.
As the economy continues in it's current trajectory, it's clearer that the old view of its potential was an extremely costly mistake.
Don’t trade away your health data without considering the potential issues first.
“You have to remember when data is shared between organizations, what is happening is the data is copied and the copy is handed over. So one copy may be covered by HIPAA and the other copy may not be.”
Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations.
Some workers may be more exposed to artificial intelligence than previously thought. But worry more about automation’s threat to less skilled employees.
The sound of the piano was the language of my father’s heart, and at 16 it was too big for me.
There are pivotal moments in a person's life that shape their soul. As a young adult, she sang with him, but within a few short years, she was suddenly carrying his legacy.
Three designers, two journalists and an interiors photographer gathered at The New York Times to make a list of history’s most enduring and significant spaces. Here are the results.
We asked writers, scientists, actors, designers and others to explain the indispensability of beauty in our everyday lives.
When it comes to race, “It's always like 'O.K., but now we're going to start the lesson on peas,''' a biology teacher said. A study will test a new approach.
Experts are divided over whether flooding the Asian market with convincing artificial rhino horn would help or hurt rhinos’ survival.
Stampeding billionaires took over Miami Beach for the annual art fair where everybody is V.I.P.
A new study answers the question, but also shows that things have been improving.
What should we make of videos that seem to show Tesla drivers napping while their cars zip along on Autopilot?
At least five trademark applications are pending for the retort, according to a database for the federal patent office, including one by Fox Media, which hopes to use it for a possible television series.
As environmental concerns grow, chains like Burger King and McDonald’s are rethinking what to offer with children’s meals.
Companies want to avoid racism, sexism and misgendering. Consultants are standing by.