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Parting Shot

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Meet This Year’s Joan Mitchell Fellows

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Bouncy brothers

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15 Artists Named 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellows

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The magic of a two-year waitlist

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Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno

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“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...

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New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .

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Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...

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Art Dispatches From “Habibi City”

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10 Photo Books to Read This Month

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

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San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Workers

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Russia Has Damaged or Destroyed Over 4,500 Cultural Sites in Ukraine

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Stuffed Animals and Found Objects Reconfigure in Sungho Bae’s Uncanny Sculptures

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Maori Karmael Holmes Looks Back on 15 Years of BlackStar

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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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Discover Millions of Artworks from Thousands of Museums with This Huge Art Search Engine

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“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

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16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar

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I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

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Moment, Expand

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Meghann Stephenson’s Tender Paintings Contrast Women’s Agency with ‘Acceptable Behavior’

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How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month

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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

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“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

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Radhika Chitalia’s Late Father’s Passport Transforms into a Memory Capsule

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Meta's Glasses for Betas

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Speaking for the Dead

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A second sexual revolution

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Attention up for auction

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226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online

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Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Fragments of Home

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Divers Stumble Upon 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck in Italy

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“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

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RIP Vermeer, You Would’ve Hated AI

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Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

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Jeffrey Epstein Dons Meta AI Glasses in Damning Guerrilla Ad

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National Gallery of Art Protects Works Ahead of Trump's IndyCar Race

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National Gallery Implements Protections Ahead of IndyCar Grand Prix

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Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in...

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How Betye Saar Came to Be

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Family Memories and Midwestern Niceties Converge in Melissa Joseph’s ‘Casserole Culture’

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The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life

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How to Give a Eulogy

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The Doulas Who Help Us Die . “Instead of assisting...

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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

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Spark Inspiration and Creativity with a Milwaukee Art Escape

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NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the...

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Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

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