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The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

Art Movements: The Brooklyn Museum's New Top Contemporary Art Curator

Michelle Segre’s Impermanent Worlds

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Lays Off 33 Workers

Required Reading

Lisa Funderburke Tapped to Lead Newark Museum of Art

This guy built an autonomous flying umbrella (powered by drones) that automagically...

Spurious Correlations

Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

Minnesota community leaders are calling for an “ICE Out” general strike and...

The Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio

A huge collection of graphic design archives and resources, like The People’s...

A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

“There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to...

February 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

What I Learned on My First Cruise

A View From the Easel

Prettifying Graffiti

How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern,...

Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know...

Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal in America. What...

Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education. “We have a very focused and...

Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was):...

Inside, the valley sings

Will Trump Ruin the Art Market?

Is inherited wealth bad?

Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

Love Anyway

Skepticism, surprise and resistance

Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”

When Hannibal Lecter Took Over

The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius