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Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

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Leafy Greens and Loaves of Bread Transform into Playful Ceramics by Eléonore Joulin

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Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

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Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around...

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At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

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A Very 2026 Art Reading List

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The shape of time

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The squeeze

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

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15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026

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Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards

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Required Reading

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Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion

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By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...

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In ‘Funeral for a Tree,’ Steve Parker Etches Bird Song into Playable Oak Records

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Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request

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Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....

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Where the Prairie Still Remains

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A View From the Easel

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Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

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The Florentine Codex

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No Harm

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Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

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From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

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A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around ‘Rick on the Roof’

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Bread Infographic

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“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...

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How Plate Tectonics Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth

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Wind keepers

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Christina Sharpe's Appeal to South Africa

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The Backcountry Rescue Squad at America’s Busiest National Park

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Landholder vs stockholder

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Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore

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Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

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Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America

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Divers

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The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History

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Vanderbilt University Buys California College of the Arts, Raising Questions

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Black Artists Create New Universes in “Unbound”

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...

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Olive Oil Sculptures

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How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Music and Life

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Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief

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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”

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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...

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Ana Mendieta’s Injured Earth

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Remembering Beatriz González, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari

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Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet’s Nostalgically Peculiar Canvases

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