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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Chika Okeke met with Okwui Enwezor to discuss “The Short Century,” African artists, and his work as a critic, publisher and curator of contemporary art.

The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is the new arena in a global sprint for power, influence, and resources—and an emerging site for artistic and interdisciplinary research.

Millions of dead birds follow such new migratory paths, which draw capital from the south and the east into the north and the west. Often, these paths consolidate, convene in the centers of the colonizing empires—London and Paris—for a few years, or decades, before moving on to museums in the new world. These routes are not the birds’ natural flyways. They are new paths toward a capitalist archive that usurps purpose from the world it exploits.

A constellation of thoughts about art and borders.

Reporting as a performance observer and implicated participant.

How green was my uncanny valley?

Organizing these materials in our studio is the outermost tip of a complex global distribution network of intricate webs of highways, shipping routes, rail lines, and flight paths—a planetary vascular system and neural network, a pulsing flow of matter and information covering the surface of the earth.

Photographing the Global Seed Vault, an artist experiences “a sobering feeling of inescapability” at the junction of geological past and humanity’s future physical fragility.

Letter from the Editors

Too Much Artificial Intelligence

These glossaries are far from exhaustive, but they may be useful for understanding the jargon of labor organizing.

Every week, after the Friday prayer, my dad would drag me along with him to the main fish market in Kuwait—where I lived until I was seventeen—to buy our seafood, raw and wriggling.