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Wangechi Mutus ‘Intertwined at the New Museum, until 6 June 2023, is a major survey spanning the full breadth of the Kenyan-born American artist’s work

“It’s the difference between a plant with one root and one with a network of roots,” artist Wangechi Mutu said. She was speaking in the

With sculptures that blend evolutionary history and science fiction, Wangechi Mutu draws on her bicontinental life for an ambitious New Museum survey.

On November 8, 2022, FDA issued a draft guidance document on Sameness Evaluations in an ANDA — Active Ingredients (“Draft Guidance”). In the Draft Guidance, FDA indicated that the...

Halloween Havoc makes the hard decision to change days for this weekend's demo derby.

Halloween Havoc makes the hard decision to change days for this weekend's demo derby.

From the NS archive: Mao Tse-tung 15 January 1949: The outside world is just beginning to understand the struggles between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao’s Communist Party. In this analytical history of the rise to power of Mao Zedong (then Romanised as Mao Tse-tung), the New Statesman’s then-Asia correspondent Dorothy Woodman writes that the future Chinese leader “has never known any other life than that of patient, confident struggle”. By January 1949, the communists in China were victoriou...

Save this story for later. It’s hard not to mythologize Bryan A. Garner. He is the Herakles of English usage. As a boy growing up in Texas, he lugged Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) to school one day to settle an argument with a teacher. When he was sixteen, he discovered “Fowler’s Modern English Usage” and swallowed it whole. By the time he was an undergraduate, he knew that he wanted to write a usage dictionary. Instead of going into academia or publishing,...

The Atlantic A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked. China Stringer Network / Reuters In the early ’90s, a New Zealand man named Neil Fleming decided to sort through something that had puzzled him during his time monitoring classrooms as a school inspector. In the course of watching 9,000 different classes, he noticed that only some teachers were able to reach each and every one of their students. What were they doing differently? Fleming zer...