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Humphry Davy on laughing gas, Sigmund Freud on cocaine … how self-experimentation shaped science and art

A Tribute to Brian O’Doherty, edited by Brenda Moore-McCann

England. Despite being a Scotsman, partly brought up in Ulster, I have taken so much Englishness for granted over so many years. So do most Englishmen, to at least as great an extent as the inhabitants of any other major country. But I hope that I am just enough of a historian to enquire about

Artforum’s May issue, out today, considers the legacy of video art, a medium whose novelty once electrified artists and theorists. This week, the editors revisit Hollis Frampton’s “The Withering Away of the State of Art,” from the December 1974 issue. Originally presented at “Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (the institution is currently hosting the major survey “Signals: How Video Transformed the World”), Frampton’s ambitious essay grapples with a young, troublesome form that had only recently begun ...

Have you ever wondered if the world around us is a simulation? Does our universe exist as a virtual construct created by some advanced alien race? Or