Articles

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Tech-Spun Remedy

Hunter Hoffman, director of the University of Washington’s Virtual Reality Research Center, has a new take on how to deal with pain

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UPDATE: State of Emergency

The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo

What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous

Did the Dinosaurs Bug Out?

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Winter (Not So) Wonderland

Helen Frankenthaler’s Mountains and Sea, 1952

Lyrical Methodology

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Trash to Treasure

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Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

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Pyramid Ages the Aztecs

For Your Viewing Enjoyment

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Tied Together Through the Generations

Sardines

Good News-bad News in a Tin of Sardines

David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967

Hello New Year

American Mine (Nevada 1), 2007 Tailing ponds from gold mines outside of Elko, Nevada.

Danger Zones

Warning: David Maisel's aerial landscapes may be hazardous to your assumptions

A spectacular new gallery at the Air and Space Museum (the nose of a 747) charts the history of an astonishing triumph—air travel.

From the Castle

Aero Dynamic

Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel was supposed to cap the career of its ill-fated designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (before the huge ship’s launching chains).

Big News

In matters of sheer magnitude, Robert Howlett got the picture

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The Last Page: Duck and Cover

An awkward case of the Cordon blues

Van Gogh painted this portrait of himself, dressed as a bourgeois, in Paris, where he stayed with his brother Theo and continued to hone his painting skills. Van Gogh's brief flirtation with the separate, dappled brushstrokes of pointillism is evident in this early effort, which is one of his best paintings from 1887. (Self-Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right)

Letters from Vincent

Never-before-exhibited correspondence from van Gogh to a protégé displays a thoughtful exacting side of the artist

Curator Jake Homiak (right) and adviser Ras Maurice Clarke make the sign of the trinity, a Rastafarian symbol of reverence.

Rasta Revealed

A reclamation of African identity evolved into a worldwide cultural, religious and political movement

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What's Up

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Letters

Readers Respond to the November Issue

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