Culture

Great art explained: Rothko’s Seagram Murals

Biography and memoir

Beauty and aesthetics

Film and visual culture

Ed and Pauline

Archaeology

Society

The modern invention of white antique marble

The ancient world

Anémic cinéma

Architecture

James Wines: nature’s revenge

Nature and landscape

Philosophy

John Ruskin: in awe of nature

Consciousness and altered states

Who decides what art means?

Thinkers and theories

The painter who revolutionised landscapes

Dance and theatre

The six sides of Merce Cunningham

Great art explained: Mona Lisa

History of ideas

Philosophy of science

The beautiful experiment

History of science

Computing and artificial intelligence

Science

Vertigo AI

Being in a building

Music

4’33”

Neuroscience

Psychology

Anjan Chatterjee: neurological disorder and art

Chemistry

Phenomena: energy

Physics

Maestro of more than music

Kabuki: the classic theatre of Japan

Can culture degenerate?

Stories and literature

Progress and modernity

The Great Wave by Hokusai

Global history

Komorebi

Language and linguistics

Should we censor art?

Ethics

A philosophy of sound

Cognition and intelligence

Engineering

Unfold the maths of origami

Mathematics

Essays and videos on philosophy, the history of ideas, ethics and life’s big questions

Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
