No wave artist Sumner Crane spent his final dozen years in Sunset Park, where many neighbors better knew his wife, teacher Susan Lehman.

On history, memory, biography, real estate, and music

A new AMS statement and resource page respond to an OMB rule that would restructure federal grants and give political appointees vastly more authority over grantmaking.

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Because we usually don't, and we aren't good at teaching it either.

Willful blindness to public goods and the Trumpist attacks on science

Including contributions from Sumner's cousins, who have been looking at three of these paintings since the 1960s.

A No Kings Day meditation.

In which we see Sumner inhabit another artist for the first time.

What could make a scientist so obsessed with his dead artist uncle?

Paintings from the Mars period that are a little like sculptures, and a photo by Julia Gorton

With Rudolph Grey and Duncan Lindsay, Sumner sits down for a conversation with his former mentor, abstract expressionist Milton Resnick, in 1980.

Friends at gunpoint, and Irish landed gentry

Likenesses of celebrities, friends, and others --- but not Bukka White or Kierkegaard

Athletes in motion, or static.

Two paintings of Sumner's block, and some stories about his place there.

Scenes from Lower Manhattan, painted during the last years that Sumner lived there.

Zebra-supermodel hybrids.

A major Sumner masterwork

Abstract. Because extreme heat has not historically been a major hazard for the city of Rio de Janeiro, the November 2023 Heatwave magnitude and timing were staggering. Here we conduct a case study of...

Field notes from New Orleans, where I and 20,000 colleagues learned that Trump intends to destroy the National Center for Atmospheric Research.