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The shadow of prosperity

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Under the circumstances

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What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness

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Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day, Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith

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Art Loves You Back When People Don’t

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What Does Anselm Kiefer Have to Do With Van Gogh?

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False scarcity

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System architect/system victim

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By Contacts We Are Saved: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Change, the Meaning of Faith, and the Courage of Heresy

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At the Armory Show, First-Time Artists Steal the Spotlight

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How New Collector Habits Are Shaking Up Art Fair Season

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Robert Grosvenor, Who Refused to Be Defined by Genre, Dies at 88

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Art on Paper Leaps Off the Page

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Song Dong’s Monumental Installations Mirror Memories, Globalization, and Impermanence

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Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame

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Mystery Abounds in Angela Burson’s Enigmatic Paintings

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Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art

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Watch a Timelapse of the Notorious Kowloon Walled City Built to Scale in Minecraft

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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children. “Florida is the first state...

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Society needs hope

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Self awareness and the luck-skill gap

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Ocean of Influence: Inside the Celebrity Boat Trip That Was All Over Your Feeds

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Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks

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How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer....

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Smithsonian Secretary Responds to Trump’s Museum Crackdown

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Curator Targeted by Trump Tapped to Lead Milwaukee Art Museum

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The Persisters

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A Chicago Artist-Run Gallery’s Last Hurrah Before Forced Closure

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There’s Not Enough of Liverpool in the City’s Biennial

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Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist and Polymath, Dies at 98

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Required Reading

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“I almost admire the confidence it must take to tell people what...

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A View From the Easel

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On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing

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Baltimore Museum of Art to Host Amy Sherald Show After Artist’s Smithsonian Withdrawal

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Meet the Man Doing a 10-Day, Self-Supported Swim Across a 140-Mile Lake

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The Rise of the Traveling Third Space. “Traveling third spaces are not...

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Twentieth Century Portrait Photography at the National Arts Club

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Yasuaki Onishi Suspends Thousands of Copper Foil Molds in an Undulating Framework

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The Official Map of the Star Wars Galaxy

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A Quirky and Joyous Social Movement Builds in Xinobi’s Music Video for ‘Strides’

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A thoughtful essay about e-bikes as a metaphor for AI, augmentation vs...

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Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a “Culture of Fear”

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From Lewis Hine, a photograph of Clyde Bradford. Hine’s photos of child...

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PITR Highlights Storefronts, Signage, and Graffiti in Ultra-Detailed Portraits of Urban Streets

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U2 and a Harlem Choir Sing ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’

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A list of 29 heroes and interesting people that few people have...

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Eight Arts Writers Awarded 2025 Rabkin Prizes

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God Dog

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