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A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism. “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy,...

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Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss, whose work and...

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the...

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Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent

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Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and Personal with Characterful Avians

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota, including donating money, hassling...

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Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

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Two Artists Consider How Chicago Shapes Its Youth in ‘World in My Eyes’

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Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and...

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A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out

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Computers can’t surprise

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Bent incentives

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Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

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Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father

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On Tilt

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Congress Funds Institute for American Indian Arts

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Art Movements: New Leaders Everywhere

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A Spell Against Fear: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry and The Art of Productive Impatience

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The Best Films of 2025

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Required Reading

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Nicola L.’s Soft Power

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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95....

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On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota

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A View From the Easel

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Request for Proposals: Operator for the Harlem African Burial Ground Cultural Education Center

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Mestra is a forthcoming short story from Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song...

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Minnesota Art Spaces to Close in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Strike

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Minneapolis Art Spaces to Close in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Strike

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Will Dad and I Ever See Texas the Same Way?

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Pilot Captures Amazing Aurora Photos During Flight

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Otherworldly Landscapes and Bolivian Culture Merge in River Claure’s Mystical Photos

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From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of...

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Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am...

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‘Cat’ Is a Purr-fect Celebration of Felines in Art Throughout the Centuries

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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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What Is the Scale of the Resistance in Minnesota?

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More ways to help: Stand With Minnesota. How you can tell this...

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You can help: a listing of mutual aid organizations to support in...

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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners sets record for most Oscar nominations: 16! Includes best...

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Sandcastles

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How to Get Into the Whitney Biennial

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Dreams of the far Right

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The big splash

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Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)

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Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing

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