Our third print issue features Catherine Lacey on worthless pictures; Elif Batuman on Miranda July; Chris Kraus on girlhood; the drawings of Daniel Johnston; poems by Ariana Reines and Eileen Myles; and dispatches on undersea rifts, baby-making on Mars, and climbing Stone Mountain. 

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Les Filles de Illighadad - Irriganan | Pioneer Live

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Lower Dens | Pioneer Live

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Sun Ra Arkestra | Pioneer Live

Pedestrian Deposit | Pioneer Live

Quay Dash | Pioneer Live

Tredici Bacci | Pioneer Live

Lightning Bolt | Pioneer Live

Boomerang For The Toward | Pioneer Live

Little Annie Anxiety & Hiro Kone | Pioneer Live

Krishna Bhatt | Ragas Live Festival 2020 | Pioneer Live

Abhik Mukherjee & Samarth Nagarkar | Ragas Live Festival 2020 | Pioneer Live

Hank Wood and the Hammerheads | Pioneer Live

MSHR | Pioneer Live

Wolf Eyes | Pioneer Live

PAF | Pioneer Live

Hailu Mergia | Pioneer Live

Roopa Mahadevan | Ragas Live Festival 2020 | Pioneer Live

Laura Ortman | Pioneer Live

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Drew McDowall | Pioneer Live

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Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band | Pioneer Live

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Resistance Revival Chorus | Pioneer Live

Tom Zé | Pioneer Live

Black Pus | Pioneer Live

Taylor Ho Bynum | Pioneer Live

FlucT | Pioneer Live

Dream Machine | Pioneer Live

Show Me the Body | Pioneer Live

Spank Rock | Pioneer Live

POLIÇA | Pioneer Live

Massive Listening Experiment | Pioneer Live

Klein | Pioneer Live

Hiro Kone & Roxy Farman | Pioneer Live

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Quantum Weirdness

Are We Alone?

Does the Body Keep the Score? 

Is Math Invented or Discovered?

Is Reality Beautiful?

Dark Energy

Exoplanets

Minds and Machines

Dogs

Aliens

Dark Matter

Genetic Manipulation

The Expansion of the Universe

The Goddamn Particle

Whales 

Artificial Intelligence

Body, Brain, and Consciousness

Animal Consciousness

Event Horizon

String Theory

Containment

Birdbrain

Deep Thoughts of Artificial Minds

Engineering A Cure

James Webb Space Telescope

Extra Dimensions

Black Holes

Scientific Controversies

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ROBERT MACFARLANE

It's hard to think of a city which is not a river city. 


 Language will always be late for its subject, especially when that subject is water or light or world. The question is how it fails. Does it fail interestingly? 

Robert Macfarlane: Rivers Are Alive! 

Robert Macfarlane on Rivers and Words

Elif Batuman on Life as Literature

Michael Pollan on Feelings, Psychedelics, and AI

Hilton Als: My Pinup

Julian Brave NoiseCat on Indigenous History and Myth

Simon Critchley and Cornel West on Mysticism

Primatologist Frans de Waal in Conversation with Isabella Rossellini

Ben Lerner on Parents, Ghosts, and Transcription

Why We Die with Venki Ramakrishnan

Pussypedia Author Zoe Mendelson in Conversation with Molly Webster

Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality in the Age of Science

Merve Emre, Sigrid Nunez, and Doreen St. Félix on Susan Sontag Now

Stay True: A Conversation with Hua Hsu and Lucy Sante

Richard Dawkins on Outgrowing God

Brian Greene's Elegant Universe, 25 Years Later

Ariana Reines and Eileen Myles on Horrible Fathers and Chosen Sons

Gloria Steinem and Ronan Farrow in Conversation

Confronting Cancer with Azra Raza and Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sean Carroll on the Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam in Conversation

Rachel Kushner on What Makes a Good Spy

Dr. Carl Hart on Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Until the End of Time: Brian Greene in Conversation with Janna Levin

Author Talks

Science Vs. Fiction: N.K. Jemisin

Science vs. Fiction: Jonathan Nolan

Science Vs. Fiction: Kip Thorne and Lia Halloran

Science vs. Fiction: Marlon James on "Moon Witch, Spider King"

Science vs. Fiction: Werner Herzog

Science vs. Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on "The Arrest"

Science vs. Fiction: Darren Aronofsky

Science vs. Fiction: Jennifer Egan on "The Candy House"

Science vs. Fiction

Miranda July: Circle Jerks

Is a River Alive?

Scientific Controversies: Deep Thoughts of Artificial Minds

A Thousand Julys

Toward a Maternal Gaze

Garth Greenwell Is Too Much

Picture This: Adinkras

Compatible Perversities: Maggie Nelson

Lunar Time

Scale

Death Poems from Eileen Myles

Marshall Allen's Infinite Voyage

Best of Broadcast 2025

Scale: The Brain

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Building Closures Due to Flash Floods

Due to weather conditions, Pioneer Works is suspending open gallery hours for Friday, September 29. MHYSA's performance has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 1, with all tickets being transferred to the new date.

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CEO Announcement

Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

We are grateful for your engagement and support of Pioneer Works over the last year. Now through December 31st, we’re fundraising to meet our end of year goal and close out 2024.

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