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Harkawik is delighted to announce Diamond garden for Cornelia, our third exhibition with Bay Area painter Karen Barbour. Some of these canvases have been with Barbour since the 1980s, when she was working in New York, and she has returned to them across the decades since: first realistic scenes from her life, then the blocky, dismembered bodies, then abstractions, each growing out of the one before. Images come to Barbour almost daily, and she paints them quickly, before they fade.

Before any of Anselm Kiefer's works reach a museum wall, they have already been burnt, buried, cut and left out in the rain. Canvases are spread on the ground and flooded with paint and diluted acid. Lead surfaces are placed in electrolytic baths and left to corrode. Some works remain buried for years before Kiefer decides they are ready. This is not preparation. It is a component of the work itself.

When people think of war, they still tend to picture tanks, artillery, air superiority, and front lines. This reflex is understandable. For centuries, modern states have defined power largely through geography and territorial control. Yet contemporary conflicts can no longer be understood through maps alone.

The Mahabharata is not merely an epic; it is a civilisational archive that encodes philosophy, ethics, politics, kinship structures, and the inner dilemmas of human existence. Attributed to Vyasa, this vast narrative unfolds around the Kurukshetra war and the lineage of the Kuru dynasty. Each character enters the narrative with a distinct origin, psychological framework, and dharmic purpose.

There is a vending machine in a shopping mall in Atlanta that knows you better than your nutritionist does. Not in the eerie, dystopian way that science fiction promised us, but in the quiet, data-hungry way that modern business has learned to operate. You walk up, tap the screen, and somewhere in the cloud, an algorithm cross-references your past selections, the time of day, the local weather, and the trending flavour profiles of your zip code. Then it suggests a drink.

Zach Yadegari didn't stumble into success. At 16, he sold a website for roughly $100,000. Two years later, taking what he had learned from his first project, he co-founded Cal AI, which went on to become a multimillion-dollar consumer app business with more than 15 million downloads and more than $30 million in annual revenue — all before his 20th birthday. The interesting part of his story is not that he started as a young teen coding prodigy or that he moved quickly. Plenty of founders do both.

For more than half a century, the humanoid robot existed primarily as a cultural icon—a creature of science fiction, trade show theatre, and academic curiosity. That era is ending. In the span of eighteen months, a confluence of advances in actuator design, lightweight composite engineering, large language models, and embodied AI has pushed humanoid robotics across a threshold that industry veterans once doubted they would witness in their careers. The machines are no longer prototypes.

In recent months, there has been a trend on social media showing people testing AI chatbots with similar questions and then changing just one detail: the gender. One of the examples asked what you should do if there is a naked man in your backyard. The AI's response was focused on safety: lock the doors, stay inside, don't approach him and call the police.

In my article in Meer Magazine on September 12, 2026, I presented an analysis of US and Israeli aggression from the point of view of authentic Jewish religious wisdom. The article received lengthy feedback from two friends of mine—one in Australia and one in Switzerland—who raised fundamental questions about the idea of “Infinity” and the extent to which I could apply this to my advocacy of world union under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

I have seen a whole lot of anime and played a ton of games. And in all of them, I have been mystified by the mage class. The magic caster. There's something about magic that just baffles me. Even a monkey would go wide-eyed if he discovered it, and I am but a man. But I find it odd that none of these fictional worlds explain clearly how magic happens. It is generally assumed to have existed all along.