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SVA Grads Make Art out of History’s Rubble

Vertical Panoramas of Churches

I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...

What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey

Pittsburgh’s Pickleball Courts by Sharmistha Ray Are an Abstract Riot of Color

The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...

A Strange Continent

Helen Levitt Captured the Poetry of New York City

The Art Institute of Chicago to Cut Its Entire Custodial Staff

The Art Institute of Chicago Cuts Its Entire Custodial Staff

On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...

Hell and High Water

“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith

The Rise of the Corporate Rave

The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...

The Bone Rush

Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free

The people’s atheist

The Having/Doing job gap

Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again

Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”

Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...

A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...

Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’

A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display

Open Call 2027: Jentel Artist Residency

I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city...

A High-Definition Cinematic Video Relives NASA’s Artemis II Mission

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a...

Isolated, Scared, Forlorn: The Heartbreaking Final Months of Virginia Giuffre’s Life