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They Were Just Having a Back-to-School Party in an Apartment Rec Room. Little Did They Know They Were Creating Hip-Hop

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Degrees of freedom

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The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

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The nature of launch day

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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

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Obama Center, Nayland Blake, Danielle Mckinney

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The troll button

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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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How Not to Waste Your Life

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The world’s first trillionaire is a killer . “A...

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Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Dies at 88

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“I Shot Andy Warhol” Upends the Myth of the Great Man

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Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head...

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25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250

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Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager

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‘Big Walk’ Is a New Video Game about … Walking and Talking

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Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...

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US Authorities Investigate Huge Etching of ‘8647’ on...

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A View From the Easel

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David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his...

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Delcy Morelos Tends to Sepulchral Installations in a Divine Connection to the Land

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There Was No American Regional Cuisine Until One 'Virginia Housewife' Thought to Compile a Diverse Collection of Recipes

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The War Against Imagination

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The Top Five Longreads of the Week

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A philosophy of home

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Nü Tennis

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When Roald Dahl Wrote a Story Predicting the Rise of ChatGPT and Other AI Large Language Models (1954)

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

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Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction

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Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For...

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“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a...

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Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director

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Required Reading

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This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early...

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Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff

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A Better World at the Obama Center

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‘Women in Trees’ Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots

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They Want to Control Our Imagination

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A Hand-Drawn Visual Guide to Chili Peppers

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Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture

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John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) ....

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Submitting to the Beast

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How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

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A close-up look at some of Spain’s oldest & most...

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For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the...

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Becoming by Max Cooper

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“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in...

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