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Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry
The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.
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Lose Yourself in Yayoi Kusama’s Last Show
A landmark retrospective by the late Japanese artist invites visitors to surrender individual identity and step into an infinite cosmos.
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TIFF 2026: River, Stuffed, The Housewife
Sometimes themes emerge at festivals. Sometimes dispatches like this are merely about what played on the same day, location, or, in this case, both. While Sian Heder’s “Being Heumann” took the coveted spot of Opening Night at the Princess of Wales Theatre, three remarkably different films unfolded across the evening, just down the street at…
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Venice 2026: The Basics of Philosophy, Diane in the Loop, Look Back
“The Basics of Philosophy” might be the worst film of Paul Schrader’s career. Jack Huston stars as John Jorrinson, a philosophy professor at a small Midwestern college who is erudite, multitalented (he plays piano well enough to teach it), and troubled in ways he can’t or won’t recognize. He’s dating a psychology prof named Rebecca…
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Mercury Is Shrinking, and Faster Than We Thought
New estimates using the planet’s surface wrinkles show that our smallest planet is growing even smaller, at a faster clip than expected.
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How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?
Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.
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Saudi Oil Exports Face Heightened Threats After Attacks on Pipeline
Ship operators already faced severe risks in navigating the region, and now the danger is higher as Houthi militias assert control in the Red Sea.
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running
The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
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AARP Projects 2027 Social Security COLA at 3.6%
If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.
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How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets
The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.