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World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future

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Required Reading

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Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass

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Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism

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A View From the Easel

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Dan Wang on his forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the...

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A group of 15-20 families in South Portland, Maine have installed landlines...

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

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These contact lenses give their wearers the ability to see infrared light,...

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‘Where’s Waldo?’ Meets Sarcastic, Dystopian Visions in Ben Tolman’s Elaborate Ink Drawings

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A collection of kooky-but-rideable bikes (treadmill bike, pull-up bike, etc.)...

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The Salacious Middle Ages

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My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods

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Light pollution has lengthened birds’ days. “Their day is almost an hour...

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Janet Echelman’s Suspended Nets Radiate Across 25 Years in ‘Radical Softness’

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Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time...

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Kevin Kelly recently published a guide called “Everything I Know about Self-Publishing”....

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For people who don’t care that much

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1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums

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The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope

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Werner Herzog doesn’t use a cell phone, but he has joined Instagram....

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“The world’s biggest frogs build their own ponds” is art as a...

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Your Guide to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs

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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?

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Photographs That Depict Alzheimer’s With Dignity

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“More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from...

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Pennsylvania Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Grant Cuts

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Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America

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Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

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Just wanting to let y’all know the cops have never had to...

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‘Crafting Sanctuaries’ Sheds Light on Black Experience in the South During the Great Depression

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Are the AirPods Pro 3 coming soon? Here’s what the rumors say....

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This hilarious commercial for a 90s mail-order punk CD is for a...

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McSweeney’s Author Cards, Collect ‘Em All!

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With Regard to the Invisible

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The Man in the New Boots

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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal...

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Hot Dog University

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“The evidence for millionaire tax flight is scant. If high earners were...

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A thoughtful post by Philip Bump on the careful use of your...

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Brett Allen Johnson Harnesses the Glow of the American Southwest in Dreamy Oil Paintings

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Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC — 2000 AD)

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Confusing good luck with skill

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Watch Momijigari, Japan’s Oldest Surviving Film (1899)

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Rock guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) has made a playlist...

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Maria Gaspar On Abolition and the High Stakes of Working with Incarcerated Communities

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Landmark Raphael Retrospective Is Coming to The Met

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Amy Sherald Speaks Out on Cancelling Her Smithsonian Show

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The Artist Freeing Museums’ Captive Instruments

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