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How to Be Human: Kahlil Gibran’s Recipe for Our Spiritual Perfection as a Species

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Léonore Chastagner Sculpts Tender Connections Between Figurative Gestures and Objects

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What We're Grateful For

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Two kinds of useful specifications

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Macaulay Culkin Watches Home Alone With His Kids Who Don’t Realize He’s Kevin

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Rebecca Solnit: A Year on From Trump’s Victory, Resistance Is Everywhere. “There...

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Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction...

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A long profile of comics legend Alan Moore. “For the first time...

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I’m still working on the KDO gift guide for this year. In...

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“Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer...

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Build a better alternative to Black Friday

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How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking

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Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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Art Movements: The US Finally Gets a Venice Biennale Rep

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What Are You Thankful For?

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Abdoulaye Konaté Translates Ancient Spirituality into Lush Tapestries

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Gratitude and empathy

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The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic

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25 Things We're Grateful for in the Art World

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Running Is Resistance in “Remaining Native”

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Remembering Llyn Foulkes, Dawn Little Sky, and Dorothy Vogel

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All of the Rivers

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Fill Your Visual Cornucopia With These 15 Satisfying Photos of Favorite Fall Fruits

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Art Critic Christopher Knight Retires From LA Times

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“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We...

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Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation?

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If Quantum Computing Is Solving “Impossible” Questions, How Do We Know They’re...

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Otherworldly Photos of Forests by Michelle Blancke Explore Mysticism and Transformation

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Thoughts and Prayers

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Cool Enchantment

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In a London increasingly dominated by rideshare services, some drivers are still...

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In ‘Terminal Classic,’ Timo Fahler Grapples with Dualities and Contradictions

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Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage of Gratitude in a Broken World

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21st-Century Culture Has Hit a Wall. “We — creators and audiences alike...

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The Ten Best Books About Food of 2025

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My Recent Media Diet, the Japan Edition

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The Prompt Decks are now available

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What Was the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?: The Case for Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

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Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)

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Immerse Yourself in the Creative Culture of Peru’s Sacred Valley with Murmur Ring’s Unique Program

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Greta Thunberg Banned From Venice After Dyeing Canal Green

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How Can NYC Artists Push Back Against Censorship?

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Llyn Foulkes, Quintessential LA Artist, Dies at 91

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The Devil Lives in Berlin

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