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The Coziest Place on the Moon: An Illustrated Fable about How to Live with Loneliness and What It Means to Love, Inspired by a Real NASA Discovery

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Passports, Prints, and Protest at the NY Art Book Fair

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Art in General, Nonprofit Champion of Early-Career Artists, Is Reopening

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A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City

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Two Artists Withdraw From Smithsonian Symposium

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Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a...

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Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Flood

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How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses

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How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a...

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Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

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Trellis Art Fund Awards 12 Artists 2025 Milestone Grants

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David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll....

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The Hive Architect: Saving Britain’s Wild Bees

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Vibrant Portraits in Tim Flach’s ‘Feline’ Celebrate Our Enduring Love for Cats

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A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also...

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This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of...

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Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see...

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Joseph Renda Jr.’s Surreal Trompe-l’œil Portals Frame Esoteric Scenes

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Katie’s story

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No time?

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The Horrifying Paintings of Francis Bacon

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Rogue Rattlesnake Removed from Grand Isle. This is such a Vermont story...

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I Planted a Forest Four Years Ago

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Required Reading

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Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade

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Severe Drought in Iraq Reveals 2000-Year-Old Tombs

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Watching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors...

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The Visual Artist Who Made Radiohead

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Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral

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Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2025

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A View From the Easel

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A new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative...

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The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee

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The International Center of Photography Presents Photobook Fest

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Atlanta Art Fair Returns for Its Second Edition at Pullman Yards

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Defector is celebrating its fifth anniversary. “This is a website run by...

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Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success

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Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE

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Against the Ornamental Backdrops of Claire Rosen’s Photos, Birds Strut Their Stuff

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The Artwork that Spawned 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Mystery

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Giant Inflatable Sculptures by Steve Messam Reimagine Everyday Environments

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Live forever

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David Hume vs literature

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20 Years Later: Little Brother, “The Minstrel Show”

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The Earliest Known Appearance of the F‑Word (1310)

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Items in motion

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The Technology That Brought Down Medieval Castles and Changed the Middle Ages

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The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”

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