ARCOmadrid Balances Curatorial Quality With an Easygoing Spirit

ARCOmadrid Balances Curatorial Quality With an Easygoing Spirit

This European fair has long cultivated its reputation as a platform for encountering thoughtful work rather than a marketplace where well-heeled buyers chase high-priced trophies. Courtesy ARCOmadrid At 45 years old, ARCOmadrid has been running long enough that generational shifts have taken place in both the galleries that bring work to the fair and the…

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Olympian Alysa Liu Reveals “Insane” Training Rule That Discouraged Drinking Water

Olympian Alysa Liu Reveals “Insane” Training Rule That Discouraged Drinking Water

Alysa Liu isn’t skating around her experience as a young athlete. The pro figure skater—who rose to fame after winning two gold medals at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics—revealed that while training for the sport, she was encouraged to refrain from drinking water. “They were like ‘Water weight, you shouldn’t drink water,’” Alysa told Rolling Stone in an interview published Mar.…

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The 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Delivers American Art for a Fractured Age

The 2026 Whitney Biennial 2026 runs through August. Darian DiCianno/BFA.com If the Whitney Biennial takes the temperature of American art—and of the society that produces it—the cacophony of fragments, relics and semi-fictional or dystopian allusions in this edition captures the fractured sense of reality and dissociation defining the present moment, as the great narratives that…

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Are We Close to a Universal Vaccine for Respiratory Illnesses?

Are We Close to a Universal Vaccine for Respiratory Illnesses?

Vaccines usually protect you against a single, specific illness. They give the immune system a heads-up about what that invader will look like, so your cells are ready to leap into action.  Some, though, do something a little different.  For instance, researchers noticed during the pandemic that people who received the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis—which…

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The Health Impact of Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent

The Health Impact of Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent

Want to meet some smart Canadians? Head to Kootenay, a mountainous region in southeast British Columbia—specifically to the town of Creston. On March 8, most of North America and Europe, along with some Caribbean and Central American Countries, will move their clocks one hour forward and commence Daylight Saving Time (DST). But as the Canadian…

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