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Sunday, July 26, 2026

A young man staring at his reflection in isolation, capturing the emotional conflict and identity crisis caused by hidden truths and self-concealment

Young woman with dyed pink hair applying makeup in front of a mirror

Caught between silence and selfhood, the hidden weight of identity concealment can transform loneliness into a lifelong psychological burden

$An isolated young man confronting himself in the mirror, reflecting the psychological strain of secrecy, self-doubt, and fractured identity$

Young woman with short pink hair applying lip gloss while looking into a mirror

The psychological architecture of self-deception

Self-deception, minority stress, and the cognitive burden of concealing sexual identity within heteronormative social structures

Haitian freighter with 463 Haitian migrants stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard on October 1, 1998

Economy & Politics

Fears of demographic death

Saving the West through the restoration of white supremacy, Trump’s final solution

Women athletes running in a daytime race as fans cheer from the stadium

The gender pay gap in sports and the direction it can head

Why women’s sports are still undervalued and how equality in pay and coverage is finally within reach

A corkboard displaying a chaotic arrangement of potential evidence – photographs, text fragments, and connections made with red string – visually encapsulates the intricate and often perplexing nature of true crime stories that captivate consumers

Does true crime empower awareness or glorify suffering?

Unraveling the impact of true crime consumption

On the Street

Vaccine against Covid-19

Science & Technology

Inside the Covid-19 vaccine disagreement

Understanding both sides

Moon

A Metastasis of Moon

Reflections and metaphysics

In the bath at the Chiltern Firehouse, February 2016. Emma Elizabeth Tillman, by courtesy of the artist

Why Now. Why Then. Why Ever!

A Q&A with Emma Elizabeth Tillman

Pintxos at tavern. Ph Genevieve Northup

Pintxos of Bilbao

Cheap Eats Day and Night

I Ching

The Divinatory Practices

Riding the Waves of Change

Warsaw cemetery, by Bohdan Lachert

Architecture & Design

Soviet war memorials

Commemorative architectures

Architecture & Design

Mere aesthetics is the past. Architectural priorities now merge durability, sustainability, and design

How material selection shapes architectural finishes

The next generation's design for durability

Rotterdam Centraal station is the main railway hub of Rotterdam, serving an average of 100,000 passengers each day. The current station building, located at Stationsplein, was officially inaugurated on 13 March 2014 by Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Rotterdam: Europe’s city of the future

Architecture, industry, and innovation in the Netherlands’ most modern metropolis

Art

Installation view from the “Art of Manga” exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, featuring works from Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure series. The exhibition showcases hundreds of original drawings and large-scale installations by major Japanese manga artists from the 1970s to the present, including Eiichiro Oda (One Piece), Junji Ito, and Tite Kubo (Bleach). Araki’s featured artwork includes life-sized characters and their Stands, designed to align with viewers’ eye levels for an immersive experience, highlighting manga as a recognized art form in a museum setting. Photo: © İdil Burkutoğlu

Hirohiko Araki and color without rules

Rethinking identity, composition, and expression in "JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure"

Entangled roots and floating forms, solo exhibition, 2026. Courtesy of the artist

Yilin Rebecca Sun on Vessel

The artist and curator reflects on clay, collaboration, and the connections that shape our shared future

Culture

Francisco Goya, Bullfight, Suerte de Varas

Bullfighting: the theater of cruelty

Why bullfighting is not culture, but a spectacle of staged suffering

Excavations at Pompeii, painted by French artist Édouard Sain (1830–1910), depicting archaeological activity in the ancient Roman city

Religion, art, and identity in Pompeii

What recent archaeological discoveries reveal about Roman society

Economy & Politics

The National Congress in Brasília, Brazil, representing the nation's democratic institutions during a period of political transition

From the pink tide to the electric blue tide

How inequality, insecurity, and public frustration are transforming electoral politics across the continent

A tense newsroom scene captures the climate of fear and pressure surrounding independent journalism in Pakistan, where surveillance, intimidation, and institutional power increasingly shape what can be reported—and what must remain unsaid

Pakistan’s fragmented press and narrative control

Political influence, media complicity, and disunity eroding press freedom

Entertainment

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts

The return of the monster boyfriend

Why romance returns to vampires, assassins, and stitched men—and what our desire for danger reveals

The Batsheva Dance Company (Hebrew: להקת בת שבע) is a renowned dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel

The relationship between dance and politics

Bodies, boundaries, and belonging in the choreography of power

Fashion

Donatella Versace in an intricately embellished ensemble, symbolizing the luxury and theatrical elegance of the Versace house

Donatella Versace: the woman who turned glamour into power

How a fearless creative mind reshaped luxury fashion for a new era

Woman repairing a pair of jeans using traditional visible mending techniques

The repair economy and fashion's next chapter

How care, craftsmanship, and new regulations are reshaping the future of consumption

Feature

Horseshoe crabs resting together against the evening tide, representing inseparable bonds shaped by love

A moving story about relationships, choices, and the hope that it is never too late to return home

A path splitting the forest, giving the traveler the opportunity or the weight of a decision

She is my daughter

Crossing: searching amidst the war

Food & Wine

A woman holding a slice of pizza while working at her computer at home

Girl dinner, but make it class-conscious

On survival meals, 9-to-5 fatigue, and why meal-prepping doesn’t have to cost your will to live

Whey and plant-based protein sources displayed together, highlighting differences in composition, texture, and nutritional origin in a natural, realistic setting

Whey protein versus plant-based protein

A scientific comparison of protein quality, digestibility, and muscle outcomes

Science & Technology

An orbital manufacturing module operates above Earth, where molten material forms in microgravity—illustrating how space is becoming the next frontier of industrial production

Manufacturing without gravity

Why space-based production is redefining materials, industry, and supply chains

Scientists analyzing microscopic specimens alongside digital biological models, representing the future of precision medicine

Transcriptomics and AI are improving drug discovery

How AI-powered tools are improving drug design, testing, and patient outcomes

Sport

A clear view of AT&T Stadium, representing the benchmark for fan experience among 2026 FIFA World Cup venues

Top 10 World Cup venues for fan experience

Review-based rankings reveal which stadiums delight supporters and which face criticism

A young footballer silhouetted against the evening sky with a ball at their feet, representing dreams that reach far beyond the horizon

A 12-year-old's road to the World Cup

Your roadmap from wherever you are right now to the Saudi Arabia 2034 Football World Cup

Travel

Crowds of tourists exploring the seafood night market in Keelung, Taiwan

The curious traveler’s survival guide

Street food, local customs, and the scams every traveler should know about

World' largest trident(Tirshul) located at Dharapani, Pandweshor Mahadev Temple, Dang Nepal

Finding stillness in Dharapani

A slow journey through village life in Dang, Nepal

Wellness

A couple receiving Ayurvedic massages as part of a Panchakarma therapy session, promoting relaxation and holistic healing

Panchakarma: the ancient art of healing and detoxification

How Ayurveda’s 5,000-year-old therapy offers modern relief from stress, toxins, and lifestyle disorders

Two women share an emotional reunion in a café, laughing together

A chance encounter in Berlin

Ulrike’s calm acceptance of illness challenged my fears of loss and reminded me how to live fully

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Lambda members and allies perform a skit based on
the popular TV quiz show, Hollywood Squares, at the
2002 Lambda Network at Kodak's Annual Education
Event with Management (detail). Courtesy of George Eastman Museum

Picturing equality: the Lambda Network at Kodak

27 Jul — 8 Nov 2026 at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, United States

Mike Saijo, Trees of Redondo beach 2 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of bG Gallery

The great escape

28 Jul — 10 Aug 2026 at the bG Gallery in Santa Monica, United States

Jivan Lee, Quartzite. Morning (detail), 2026. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries

31 Jul — 12 Sep 2026 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, United States

Rohit Varekar, Floting house, 2026. Courtesy of Sakshi Gallery

Sites of passage

31 Jul — 22 Aug 2026 at the Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai, India

Farah Billah, The table, with friends (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Louisiana contemporary

1 Aug 2026 — 14 Feb 2027 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, United States

Gwen John, Girl with a blue scarf (detail), c.1923. Courtesy of National Galleries Scotland

Gwen John: strange beauties

1 Aug 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lance Myers, Breathless and on again (detail). Courtesy of Wally Workman Gallery

As we unmagic the self

1 Aug — 6 Sep 2026 at the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, United States

Ines Katamso, Hyphaeahpyh 5 (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

The places we carry

6 — 30 Aug 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia

W. Max Thomason, Do you ever feel everything you have could disappear in an instant (detail), 2026. Courtesy of Pulse Visual Arts

Falling away from prime

7 Aug — 27 Sep 2026 at Pulse Visual Art in Denver, United States

Sharon Booma, The oil of gladness (detail), 2026. Courtesy of LewAllen Galleries

The unsaid thought

7 Aug — 5 Sep 2026 at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, United States

Catherine Opie, Flipper, Tanya, Chloe & Harriet, San Francisco, 1995 © Catherine Opie. Courtesy of the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul, and Thomas Dane Ga

8 Aug — 1 Nov 2026 at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lara Merrett, Ripple (detail), 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

20 Aug — 12 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia

Gregory Hodge, Overgrowth (detail), 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

27 Aug — 26 Sep 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney, Australia

Billy Schenck, Gratuitous violence (detail). Courtesy of JoAnne Artman Gallery

Technicolor west

1 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at the JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, United States

Ali Cherri, still from The sentinel (detail), 2026. Courtesy the artist and
Almine Rech Gallery

5 Sep 2026 — 4 Jan 2027 at WIELS in Brussels, Belgium

Ellen Bradshaw, Spring fever, 10th Ave and 25th Sta (detail). Courtesy of Pleiades Gallery

Every street has a story

8 Sep — 3 Oct 2026 at the Pleiades Gallery in New York, United States

Irfan Hendrian, C===Ɔ, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

10 Sep — 31 Oct 2026 at Sullivan+Strumpf in Singapore, Singapore

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