There is, in underwater life, a captivating otherness, and these images from the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition bring it forth with admirable clarity.
The first photograph captures a clownfish parent keeping vigil over the moment when the eggs it had tended so carefully begin to hatch. A scene which, according to the judges, they had never encountered before...

Human genius can be observed in many of its works. Nowhere is it more detectable than in the arts: music, literature, and the visual arts. As a species, seen from above, we are all fairly clever. But some are—or were—truly exceptional. What did they require to rise above the rest? What made them singular, beyond the reasoning most of us share?

I have not the faintest idea why The Times, in its February 16 edition, informs us—by a delay so un-British—that Damien Hirst’s Saint Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain has been installed in the Camellia House at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Not only that work: The Watchtower, by Auke de Vries, and Muamba Posy, by Vanessa da Silva, both outdoors in the Country Park.

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, part of University College London (UCL), houses one of the most important collections of Egyptian artefacts in the world. It preserves more than 80,000 objects recovered from excavations conducted between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among them are hundreds of shabti, small funerary figures that formed part of the ritual equipment of tombs in ancient Egypt...

The aesthetic and existential possibilities that Pedro Guevara opens through his practices summon us to sustain an attentive gaze toward how we perceive the world in relation to our authentic growth and existential harmony, bearing in mind that his artistic doing never detaches itself from lived practice when establishing its discourse...

The Pattern & Decoration (P&D) movement, once dismissed for its embrace of "decorative" arts, is now celebrated for challenging traditional art hierarchies. Explore its legacy and modern-day echoes in Cincinnati, where creative hubs like the Freeport Row Art Alley are contributing to a thriving art scene, with a mural by Esteban Leyva at Liberty and Elm streets.

Forty years ago, the American photographer Nan Goldin published what is now widely regarded as one of the most influential photobooks in contemporary art. That is the view of Jacqui Palumbo—journalist, editor, and producer specializing in art and culture—who covered this event for CNN. Titled The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the book documents Goldin’s life in New York City’s East Village throughout the 1970s and 1980s, with forays into Chicago, London, and Mexico City.

The latest issue of Australian Science Illustrated—issue 121, February—brings a great deal of interesting material. It is not a journal as serious as Science; it is, rather, a popular-science magazine. It seems aimed at a broad, family readership. Still, its articles are intelligent and very well written. It publishes features on science in general and technology, with a clear preference for content on outer space, medicine, archaeology, and nature.

Salgado is indispensable to twentieth-century photography. His unmistakable images of vast crowds working—fighting to survive the world’s violence—remain permanently fresh in the memory of those of us who love the medium. So do his extraordinary photographs of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, along with the work he produced while covering the conflicts in Rwanda and the Balkans, among many others...