This week, Mia opened its highly anticipated show “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” about the innovative Hollywood director, his creative process, and the things that inspire him. But what if you’ve never heard of him? What if you stopped thinking about monsters in third grade? What if you could never imagine watching a  ...

This week, Mia opened its highly anticipated show “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” about the innovative Hollywood director, his creative process, and the things that inspire him. But what if you’ve never heard of him? What if you stopped thinking about monsters in third grade? What if you could never imagine watching a  ...

For a visual guy, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a way with words. During opening weekend for “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” the exhibition at Mia exploring GDT and the origins of creativity, he sat for a Q&A with Mia director Kaywin Feldman and curator Gabe Ritter. He was thoughtful, profane, and hilarious,  ...

For a visual guy, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a way with words. During opening weekend for “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” the exhibition at Mia exploring GDT and the origins of creativity, he sat for a Q&A with Mia director Kaywin Feldman and curator Gabe Ritter. He was thoughtful, profane, and hilarious,  ...

Whether you’re Buffy or Billy or Paris von Gütersloh (the chap depicted here by Egon Schiele), you’ve probably grown into your name—literally, according to new research. Shown pictures of faces along with a selection of five possible names, people chose the right name 35 percent of the time, a remarkable feat given that random chance would elicit the  ...

I always read the New Yorker on the elliptical torture machine at the gym, mostly to avoid the repugnant boredom of exercise. But I also find that the effect of the endorphins, combined with the great writing in the New Yorker, fires up ideas. I have lots of bad ideas (I can tell they are bad because  ...

I always read the New Yorker on the elliptical torture machine at the gym, mostly to avoid the repugnant boredom of exercise. But I also find that the effect of the endorphins, combined with the great writing in the New Yorker, fires up ideas. I have lots of bad ideas (I can tell they are bad because  ...

George Washington, whose birthday is today, didn’t go in for wigs. But he did powder his hair white. Most men did in his day, including the other major figures of the American Revolution. Yet this innocuous fact of fashion, according to recent research, may be coloring our perception more than 200 years later, when white hair implies extreme old  ...

George Washington, whose birthday is today, didn’t go in for wigs. But he did powder his hair white. Most men did in his day, including the other major figures of the American Revolution. Yet this innocuous fact of fashion, according to recent research, may be coloring our perception more than 200 years later, when white hair implies extreme old  ...

On February 16, in Mia’s Pillsbury Auditorium, five literary and performance artists will offer their takes on AfroFuturism, the burgeoning cultural movement that projects people of color into the future. It’s an expansive notion—an extension, if not a rebuttal, of Black History Month—encompassing the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra, the dystopian science fiction of Octavia  ...