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Becoming Caravaggio

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AI ads are neither

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How the Incas Performed Skull Surgery More Successfully Than U.S. Civil War Doctors

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

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

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Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

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

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Michelle Segre’s Impermanent Worlds

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Lays Off 33 Workers

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Required Reading

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Lisa Funderburke Tapped to Lead Newark Museum of Art

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

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Spurious Correlations

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Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

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

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The Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio

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

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

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

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

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What I Learned on My First Cruise

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A View From the Easel

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Prettifying Graffiti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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