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Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain...

“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

Cover Song for the Second Law: A Poem for Beginnings

Curling Up in a Cozy Art Studio

Searching for Seamus Heaney

Bottlenecks

When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog

The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life

The Art Crossword: Art Deco Edition

Required Reading

A View From the Easel

The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medicine and Personal Health as a Political Act

Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

Art, Truth, and the Work Ahead

Becoming a Centenarian

1981 time machine

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

Celebrate Public Domain Day with Betty Boop and Piet Mondrian

Fred Wilson Reflects Our World in Black and White

‘Modern Japanese Printmakers’ Celebrates Vibrant Mid-20th-Century Innovation

Kottke Wrapped 2025

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

Happy Public Domain Day to All Who Celebrate! You Can Now Use Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'The Maltese Falcon' for Free

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

Remembering the Art Restorer Who Lifted Our Spirits

Balthazar, 1997

Which kind of ‘enough’?

The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice

How “Heated Rivalry” Sparked Thirst, Hope, and Memes

Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

Bad Bunny Scolded for Touching Ancient Art at Mexican Museum

A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

Cecilia Giménez, Whose Botched Restoration Became an Icon, Dies at 94

Cecilia Giménez, Patron Saint of Bad Restorations, Dies at 94

Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Rosana Paulino

Listen to the Cassandras

January 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s

Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups...

Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database. “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help...

From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page Reimagine a Gallery as an Atmospheric Art Bar

The Stories That Carried Me Through 2025

Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse

Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025

Library fatigue