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Behind the Scenes at Pace

Employees describe the gallery’s disorienting layoffs, Brenda Goodman looks back on her six-decade practice, and artists urge Mayor Mamdani to ban AI in schools.

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Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant the scientist writing was a woman, though the word “scientist” itself was more than a

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Empathy and good advice

Focus groups and informal feedback offer a trap: Asking someone in the target audience if they like something might get you useful feedback. But most of the time, the people you’re asking aren’t actually in the group of early adopters that are going to make your rollout work.

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How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe

It’s a myth that starving artists don’t eat. They do, just not often or well. Their meals rarely rate recipes, let alone cookbooks. Those cookbooks do exist though.… The mostly conceptual Starving Artist Cookbook put together by EIDIA (aka artists Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf)

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Going Deep With Brenda Goodman

“I remember taking a plaid dress, tearing it up, and using it as paint rags,” the 83-year-old painter tells me in a knee-to-knee interview at her studio.

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VOTE!

An interview with artist and Congressional hopeful Claire Valdez, Kim Dacres’s rubber art, and Christopher Myers’s kaleidoscopic subway mosaics.

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Room Tone

For each of their on-camera interviews with filmmakers, actors, critics, and other film nerds, Criterion records 30 seconds of “room tone” that is used to cut the footage into a seamless video. When trying to explain what room tone is to someone unfamiliar with the concept, I

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Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff

Amazon is doing their Prime Day sale again this summer and for those with Prime memberships , it’s a chance to upgrade some tech items at rarely seen prices. Here are a few items I’ve got my eye on: The AirPods Pro 3 are still my daily headphones; I really do love them so

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Plane Lands/Takes Off In Only 20 Feet

I posted a video earlier today of a Super Cub airplane landing on the side of a mountain . Super Cubs are ideal for that undertaking because of their low stall speed and short take-off and landing distances. But I had no idea you could land and take off in one in the space of

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Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...

Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.”

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