Selected magazine stories
How a group of students and gamers deciphered a Herculaneum scroll — and changed papyrology forever, for Scientific American
Samad Akrach performs Islamic burials for refugees who die in the English Channel, for the Financial Times Magazine (cover story)
The inventor who fell in love with his AI, for the Economist’s 1843 magazine
The Scottish village building a spaceport and fighting a billionaire, for WIRED
The scientist behind “resilience,” who came to believe he was dead, for the Boston Globe Magazine
The oligarchs feuding over bejewelled eggs, in The Fence
Selected art writing
On Paolo Nimer Pjota’s paintings - ArtReview
Cuts, Splinters and Frames: Wood Takes Centre Stage (on Sanya
Kantarovsky, Camille Blatrix, Alexandre Canonico, and Anderson Borba) - ArtReview
On pandemic memorials - The Guardian
Alvaro Barrington’s Expansive Art - ArtReview
Luiz Zerbini’s Fragile Patchworks of Living Things - Frieze
Thomas Ruff’s ‘tableaux chinois’ - art-agenda
The Spectres of Christian Boltanski - ArtReview
On 'Antibodies' at Palais de Tokyo, Paris - Artforum
Bojan Šarčević’s ‘L’Extime’ - art-agenda
On Apostolos Georgiou - Artforum
On Magalie Guérin - Artforum