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How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”

What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol

Elif Shafak on the Three Roots of Hate and How to Be a Star Student of Life

Fake news and trust

Et Tu, South Africa?

The sorting

John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life

Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC

40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural

I Rewatch “Gilmore Girls” to Remember my Stepfather

San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School

A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025

The rate at which the universe is expanding differs depending on how...

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.

What Will Retirement Bring? An Animated Film for Those Dreaming of Work-Free Days

The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’. “If Chalamet has found, in...

What to See During San Francisco Art Week

How Russia’s Children Got So Violent. “There is no positive ideology for...

Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized

This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota....

Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

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

Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

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

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

A Very 2026 Art Reading List

The shape of time

The squeeze

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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

15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026

Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards

Required Reading

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

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

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

Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request

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

Where the Prairie Still Remains

A View From the Easel

Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

The Florentine Codex

No Harm

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

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

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

Bread Infographic

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

How Plate Tectonics Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth

Wind keepers