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Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive

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Visitors Can’t Keep Their Hands Off This Eggplant Artwork

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A Hiroshima Survivor’s Message for Jerry Saltz

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The Artists Who Made a “Sculpto-Pictorama” of Manhattan

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Casa Susanna Is a Glimpse Into a Midcentury Refuge for Trans Women

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The Lord of the Rings Audiobook Is Fantastic

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Smithsonian’s New Trump Impeachment Label Is Shorter and Safer

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Scientists have found a “robust” candidate for a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri...

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Celebrating Spring in ‘A Ffern Fairytale,’ Children Imagine Quirky Characters

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Honey, I Have No Clue What You’re Talking About — I Did...

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Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

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In a preseason game yesterday, Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little nailed a...

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‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’

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In ‘Crewel Intentions,’ Danielle Clough Delves into the Nostalgic World of 1970s Magazines

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Karen Attiah: I Gained 20 Pounds of Muscle. Here’s What I Learned....

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“You cannot keep your soul intact while building the Torment Nexus. The...

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American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people...

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Through Stacks of Laundry and Humble Vessels, Danym Kwon Cherishes the Mundane

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Israel’s right-wing government has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in a deliberate...

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‘The Forest Had Gone’: The Storm That Moved a Mountain

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Bridging the gap

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The secret

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Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver

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What does it want?

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David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive

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Great new t-shirt for Gracie’s Ice Cream features a Jaws-shaped cone about...

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The Asian Modernists of Paris

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Court Sides With Peter Doig in Bizarre Authorship Lawsuit

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A Photographer Brings New York City’s Water System to the Surface

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Smokey Bear Through the Years

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After the chores

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The Cult of “Kill Tony”

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Contagious emotions

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Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan

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“James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed...

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Thai Art Center Censors Exhibition After “Pressure” From China

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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August

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As ADAA’s Art Show Changes Course, a Nonprofit Is Left in Limbo

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“Alligator Alcatraz” Construction Halted, But Native Heritage Remains at Risk

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Life Before Katrina—And After It

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Sister Inquiry

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The Danish post office will stop delivering mail (but not parcels) at...

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Experimenting with Color and Reflection, Kenny Harris Brews Beautiful Still Lifes

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‘Speak of the Devil’ Conjures the World of Twin Sisters Haylie and Sydnie Jimenez

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For the Living of These Days

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The incompleteness of ethics

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Scarcity and abundance

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One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence

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Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times

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