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Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom

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The Best Books of 2025

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We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner....

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The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025

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What’s a UFO Show With No Flying Saucers?

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The Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top

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A “particularly inventive” Rube Goldberg marble run maze. Lots of elements doing...

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Launch a Community-Centered Design Career with an MDes From the University of Arkansas

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Li Yi-Fan to Represent Taiwan at the 61st Venice Biennale

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Model Employees

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Trung Tran Studio Incorporates Mature Trees into a Warm Brick Home in Vietnam

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The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

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Colin Furze built a full-suspension bike using powerful magnets instead of shocks...

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MoMA PS1 to Offer Free Admission Starting in 2026

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For ‘ÓST,’ Estúdio Capim Conjures a Retrofuturistic Candle Concept

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Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century....

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A Year in NYC Art Shows

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The empty ideology

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The Business of Care

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If your marketing isn’t working…

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See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like

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A Year in Reading: When We Are Redefined

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Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

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The Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025

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Jiggle Cat

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A guide on how (and why) to quit Spotify. “I am extremely...

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What If the Economy Was Modeled After Ecology?

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Huge Collection of Laptop Sticker Art

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Water Leak at Louvre Museum Damages Hundreds of Books

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Why We Have Two Nostrils Instead of One Big Hole. (Great title!)...

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The Soundscape of Genocide in Gaza

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Matisse Prints Stolen From Brazil Library in Broad Daylight

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Photographers Around the World Capture Astonishing Auroras During the Solar Maximum

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The Dude Ranch Above the Sea

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I’m working on the 2025 gift guide right now, but I wanted...

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Lucas Museum Chief Curator’s Sudden Exit Raises Questions

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A video featuring Magnus Carlsen trying to beat a very novice player...

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Art Historical Dogs and Birds Serve as Queer Avatars in Scott Csoke’s Emotive Paintings

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From Nature, a list of 10 people who helped shape science in...

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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?

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The all-out AI race. “They are tearing towards a technology that could,...

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The School of the Art Institute Turned Its Back on Media Arts

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Shop Limited-Edition Prints from Sebastian Foster for Thoughtful Holiday Gifting

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Beautiful Drone Videos of Iceland’s Black Sand Beaches

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Narrative String Theory is collection all known instances in film & TV...

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Understanding carriage

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How Robert Frost writes a poem

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Maternal paradox

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Your 2025 Art World Wrapped

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How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Changed Architecture

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