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Banksy and the tradition of destroying art

Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million...

Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist

Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant element of...

‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ still speaks to nation’s racial discord,...

Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University, State University of New York Most memoirs are soon forgotten. A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,”...

Controversial young adult novel offers insight into Kavanaugh hearings, sexual assault

Kelly Roberts, Meredith College The confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should remind educators of the vital need to talk to young people...

Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of...

Nicole R. Fleetwood, Rutgers University In 2007, Haitian-American artist Moliere Dimanche was sentenced to 10 years in Florida state prisons, where he ended up serving...

Want to live longer? Consider the ethics

John K. Davis, California State University, Fullerton Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer...

Should we scoff at the idea of love at first sight?

James Kuzner, Brown University For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first...

What the grieving mother orca tells us about how animals experience...

Jessica Pierce, University of Colorado Denver For many weeks, news of a mother orca carrying her dead infant through the icy waters of the Salish...

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