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The allure of autarky

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Orange cars

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How Jackson Pollock Redefined Modern Art: An Introduction

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The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985)

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Ali Banisadr Paints a World in Calamity

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Preserving the Age-Old Art of Malaysian Shadow Puppetry

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If the US-Mexico Border Could Talk

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LA Museums Have Failed Undocumented Immigrants

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The power of a pause

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Rigor and curiosity

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I Write Eulogies, Not Tragedies

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National Portrait Gallery Director Quits After Trump “Firing”

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Punctured Photographs by Yael Martínez Illuminate the Daily Ruptures of Systemic Violence

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Inside Job

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The Des Moines Art Center Presents Firelei Báez

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Humpback Whales Are Approaching People to Blow Rings. What Are They Trying to Say?

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The Gravekeeper’s Paradox

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These 15 Dynamic Photos Will Make You Want to Dance

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Animals taught us culture

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What do you need more of?

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The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

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The Boy Who Came Back: The Near-Death, and Changed Life, of My Son Max

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Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery

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The Blind Leading the Gamers

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Required Reading

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The Man Who Unsolved a Murder

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Free Clinic Teaches Angelenos How to Repair Damaged Art

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Laura Boráros Dances Between Dreams and Reality in a Surreal Short Film

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How Painting Saved One of Our Most Iconic Designers

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A View From the Easel

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Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Support At-Risk Trans People

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MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary Shutters Amid LA Protests

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Piped Like Cake Icing, Ebony Russell’s Luscious Vessels Evoke Emotional Celebrations

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Conversations With Claude

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More than 7,500 Prints and Negatives by Trailblazing Photographer Alice Austen Return Home

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David Harvey and the city

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There’s Gold in the Hills

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Incredible testimonies

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Status (and the grass tax)

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An Architectural Tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Desert Home and Studio

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Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)

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Saoirse Ronan Stars in a Quirky 50th Anniversary Music Video for Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’

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LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters

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Indian Craft Shop Closure Leaves Complicated Legacy

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John Wilson Spent a Lifetime Making Blackness Visible

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Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light

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From a Soho Loft to the World’s First LGBTQ+ Art Museum

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The Arguers: A Charming Illustrated Parable about the Absurdity of Self-righteousness

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Moss Galleries Presents Beate Wheeler’s Abstract Rhythms: 1960s on 10th Street

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