Being a linguist—and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Sapiens, IndiGalleria’s first major physical group show open worlds. Spread across the serene, light-filled spaces of ...

The Japanese word gamaguchi translates literally into English as “frog mouth,” but the language didn’t really need a single, specialized vocabulary word for discussing that part of amphibian anatomy.

Language about violence isn’t descriptive, it’s flawed and political. Each label can empower, stigmatize or shape expectations of healing.

A red herring is a decoy that distracts you from what’s important. It’s also a herring that is red. A literal red herring is ...

Galleries and artists who lean into access stand to win. From five-year clauses that protect markets to galleries that ...

COP30, the dark plots of "green capitalism," the colonization of carbon credits, the false technocratic solutions to the climate crisis, the fight for the ...

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with ...

A quarter-century in, Eiichiro Oda’s sprawling Japanese pirate saga, One Piece, has transformed into an ever-evolving odyssey ...

The word “schadenfreude” is a noun that is defined as pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. The word ...