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Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930)

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Bambi Meets Godzilla: #38 on the List of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time (1969)

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A Photographer’s Unflinching Hymn to Her Aging Body

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Turkey’s Queer Art Community Walks a Thin Line

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How Did a Pro-Democracy Activist Become a Trump Supporter?

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NYC Housing Stories: Felice Kirby and Jenny Dubnau

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Vandals Deface Mural Made for Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial

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Van Gogh’s “Irises” Were Never Supposed to Be Blue

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Sistine Chapel May Depict Woman With Breast Cancer, Study Says

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Clementine Keith-Roach Unearths Ancient Vessels for Her Motherly Sculptures

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Kafka on Friendship and the Art of Reconnection

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Downhill Skateboarding

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How to buy a lottery ticket

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Lush Growths and Classical Architecture Converge in Eva Jospin’s Meticulous Sculptures

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Sincerity is expected

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The Invisible Man

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Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks that meet this moment...

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Jason Koebler at 404 Media: The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me...

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The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself

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Six New York City Shows to See Right Now

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Chicana Artist’s Once-Censored Mural Finds a New Home in LA

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This is an astute observation about the conservative sense of permanent resentment:...

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Scientists have found an individual coral colony that’s large enough to be...

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Let’s Build a Massive Meta McDonald’s in Times Square

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You’ll soon be able to watch your local PBS station & PBS...

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Dartmouth’s New MFA in Sonic Practice Invites Fall 2025 Applications

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“…trans posters were the earliest adopters of Bluesky and were able to...

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Today’s Google Doodle is a celebration of the kayak, illustrated by Inuit...

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Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Running

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A report from the American Immigration Council on Trump’s mass deportation plan....

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‘Return to Hairy Hill’ Hauntingly Renders Family Lore in Black-and-White Animation

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Fake Bear Commits Insurance Fraud

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Soundscapes of the Silenced

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The cochlear question

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Take good notes

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself

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‘Here I Gather All the Friends’: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study

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How the Women’s Studio Workshop Shakes Up the Art of Bookmaking

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“Subway Therapy” Displays New Yorkers’ Post-Election Thoughts

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Required Reading

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Happy Pictures From the Apocalypse

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How Bob Thompson Created an Art Community

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The Quiet Sublime of Steve McQueen

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How to Survive a Fall

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The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women

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The Violin. “A stack of hundred-year-old photos lead to the discovery of...

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Scabby the Rat, Icon of Labor Strikes, Gets His Own NYC Show

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A View From the Easel

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Strata: Layered Watercolor Gradients

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