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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

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Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

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Sebastian Foster Releases 20 New Prints for the Holidays

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The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

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The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

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Papers

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Nothing alive is alien to me

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Marketing lessons from the Grateful Dead

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200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II

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Take a 2‑Hour Walking Tour Through New York City: Architects Reveal the Secrets Behind Its Most Iconic Buildings

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Artist Displays 2,000-Pound White House Made of Bullets

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We Are History’s Ghosts

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Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong

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R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means

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On meeting spec

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‘Some Interesting Apples’ Delves into the World of Feral Fruit

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Infantilization

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A Lamentation for Linnaeus: In Praise of Confusion and Rewilding Wonder

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MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2026

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Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum

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‘Girls Move Mountains’ Is a Bold Portrait of the Women Playing Soccer in Remote Pakistan

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Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos

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Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City

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Not in our name

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A convincing argument

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How IKEA Revolutionized Furniture-Making

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Kicking Robots

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Required Reading

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How Did We Get Here?

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Art Movements: Why, Maurizio Cattelan, Why?

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Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC

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Gay Sheep Make Their High Fashion Debut in NYC

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Why I Joined the Artists Behind Fall of Freedom

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A View From the Easel

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Smithsonian’s Online Native Cinema Showcase Presents Free Short Films by Indigenous Filmmakers

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Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations

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Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking Techniques

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Experiences in Groups

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A Bright Light Has Gone Out

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Simon Laveuve’s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles

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My Pace

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Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...

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A Theology of Smuggling

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Angles of love

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Our phosphorescent world

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Hard work and goodwill

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