Jonathon Keats

The birdcage was perfected in communist Hungary. In 1972, István Haraszty outfitted a parakeet dwelling with a sophisticated surveillance system

I n the fall of 2020, I installed a municipal clock in Anchorage, Alaska. Although my clock was digital, it soon deviated from other timekeeping devices. Within a matter of days, the clock was hours ahead of the smartphones in people’s pockets. People figured something was awry.

Passing over the Atlas Mountains in 1925, the French military photographer Marcelin Flandrin spotted a Barbary lion walking through the sand.

Christopher Columbus's fortunes have changed over the past several decades. Monuments that once celebrated his memory have been toppled or spattered with paint.

The Centre Pompidou hosts one of the true pioneers in art-and-technology – whose ideas are even more pertinent today.

The medieval world was filled with wonders. In India, there lived a people nourished by the scent of flowers. In Spain, mares were impregnated by the summer breeze.

Francis Alÿs has been documenting children at play for the past 25 years. Some of his most insightful videos are on view at the Barbican Centre in London.

For a long time, scientists couldn’t debunk séances with experiments. See how magicians rose to the task – and set a new standard for truth – at the Peabody Essex Museum.

A wide-ranging discussion with the conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats on his life, his philosophy, and a handful of his many projects, including Centuries of the Bristlecone, a forthcoming collaboration with Long Now and the Nevada Museum of Art.

A new exhibition at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles reveals surprising connections between surveillance and art, and highlights artwork that exposes a world of skullduggery from the USSR to China.