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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

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Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie...

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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

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Women Are Being Abandoned by Their Partners on Hiking Trails. What’s Behind ‘Alpine Divorce’?

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Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self

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Field Notes from a Body

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Lebanese Artist Ali Sbeity Reportedly Killed in Israeli Strike

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Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young

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Anki King’s Nordic Noir

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Social Malpractice in the Age of Cultural Compliance

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Ghanaian Artist Ibrahim Mahama Allegedly Assaulted by State Police

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Remembering Calvin Tomkins, Rhoda Roberts, and Agosto Machado

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Frank O’Hara’s Curatorial Eye

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Camille Lemoine’s Portrait of Home and Belonging in Rural Scotland

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The Body I Couldn’t Abstract

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Take Your Practice Further in a Visual Arts Residency at Banff Centre

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How to Stop Doing and Start Living

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Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

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A Lush Textile Installation Springs to Life in Shanghai

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How American Camouflage Conquered the World

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The Last Great Weed Smuggler

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Being in the world: technology and humanity

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What Makes a Good Protest Sign?

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“Too complicated for people to understand”

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See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models

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How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction

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Despite Uncertainty, Gulf Art World Projects Normalcy

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The Biggest Week of the Spring?

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“Feminism is far from dead, but people love to...

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How to Make a No Kings Protest Sign

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10 Exhibitions to See in Chicago This Spring

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DHS Appropriates Japanese Artist’s Work in Racist X Post

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Get ‘Super/Natural’ Inside Judith Schaechter’s Stained Glass Sculpture

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We watched Zoolander last night and right before the...

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A new edition of On Liberty, a canonical work of...

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Internet Goes Wild for The Met’s Newly Acquired Mannerist Painting

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“COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its...

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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

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A Doomed Mission to Mars Awaits Henry Wood’s Lanky Explorers

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Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom

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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

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Lay It Down

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Austin Bell Chronicles Every Single One of Hong Kong’s 2,549 Basketball Courts

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The Year I Was Supposed to Die

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Columbus Statue at the White House

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The clock in our genes

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Numbers and the human/computer interface

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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

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