WashU Seeks Artists in Diverse Media for Fall 2027 Entry to MFA Program

Experiment in the Sam Fox School’s expansive, state-of-the-art facilities, leveraging fellowship, residency, and research opportunities.

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All-around junior male

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Tom of Finland Foundation Turmoil

Hrag Vartanian on Mala Iqbal's vignettes of the metropolis, museum union updates, and Mamdani doubles art grants.

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A life in episodes

For a decade, I’ve posted episodes of my memoir to Facebook. My readers correct my understanding of my past - by Thomas Söderqvist Read on Aeon

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Create a handoff doc

Imagine if your job required you to maintain an updated handoff doc, something the boss could give to a new hire that would let them immediately get caught up on the work. All the file names, locations, assumptions, choices, dilemmas and contacts, organized and ready to go.

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300 Years Before ChatGPT, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Imagined Machines Writing Books and Producing Knowledge (1726)

The printing press was invented in the middle of the fifteenth century, and it’s been downhill for the written word ever since. Even before then, arguments that the volume of writing being done far outstripped the value of that writing surely weren’t unheard of. Whatever the

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Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938

Here’s some rare footage of the great Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo paying a visit to exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, in Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1938. The Trotskys had arrived the year before, after Rivera petitioned the

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Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

We know good people when we encounter them, when they fall upon our lives like a sunbeam, like a song. But we don’t always know what makes them good. It has, of course, a lot to do with kindness. It has to do with their capacity to give, and also to receive. It has to do with

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