The Arts

Detail from The Red Balloon Paul Klee, 1922. Courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Credit: Wikimedia

How a Wandering Mind Spurs Creativity

Julia Christensen Guido Giglioni and Manos Tsakiris 08/12/2017

History is full of examples of the relationship between...

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In Jayashree Chakravarty’s Installations, Powerful Evocations of Nature Under Threat

Soumitra Das 05/10/2017

Made using organic materials like tobacco leaves and audio...

A Rammstein concert in progress… Credit: mollenborg/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Before We Fixate on ‘Blue Whale’, Let’s Remember the Real Monsters Out There

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/09/2017

Banning the game will not take away the many...

.A press cameraman videographing the treatment of a child diagnosed with encephalitis

Photo Story: How a Medical College in Gorakhpur Turned Into a Funeral Factory

Debalin Roy 02/09/2017

About 10,000 infants have died in the hospital since...

Bioblocks, created for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. Swansea University, Author provided

Here’s What Happens When Scientists Get the Opportunity to Communicate Their Work as Art

Richard Johnston 17/07/2017

Research isn't just about producing papers but also about...

The Changing Life of the Wakhi People in Pakistan’s Shimshal

Rocio Otero 16/05/2017

Perched on the mountains of Karakoram, this indigenous community...

Tigers live in perhaps the highest density in Kaziranga National Park of any place in India. In other national parks in India, tigers are in greater peril, but poachers here tend to target the Indian one-horned rhinos instead. Here, a young male emerges from the elephant grass. © Steve Winter

Interview: ‘No One Needs to See Another Portrait of an Animal, You Can Do That at the Zoo’

Janaki Lenin 10/04/2017

Steve Winter is a conservation photographer noted for his...