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

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What I Learned on My First Cruise

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A View From the Easel

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Prettifying Graffiti

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How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

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Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

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“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of...

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Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and...

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Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal...

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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education....

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Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was):...

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Inside, the valley sings

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Will Trump Ruin the Art Market?

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Is inherited wealth bad?

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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

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Love Anyway

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Skepticism, surprise and resistance

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Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”

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When Hannibal Lecter Took Over

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The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

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Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

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Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes

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How Trump Is Jeopardizing the US Art Market

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Smithsonian to Return Three Looted Bronzes to Indian Government

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Another NFT Platform Bites the Dust

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Michelangelo and Titian’s Rivalry That May Never Have Been

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The Unexpected Epiphanies of Watching 57 Movies With my Sleeping Newborn

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Remembering John H. Beyer, Marian Goodman, and Chung Sang-hwa

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Vintage Tourist Maps of Japan

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Ingrid Hernández Reveals Tijuana’s Hidden Beauty

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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

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Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited by Matthew...

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Art is Better Together: A Letter from Our Editorial Director

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Clint Smith visits the National Memorial for Peace and...

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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive.

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These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation

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Bruce Springstein wrote & recorded a song about...

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Let This Darkness Be

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David Lynch Went to the First Beatles Concert in the US (1964)

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Why do RSS readers look like email clients? “When...

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A collection of “well-made apps and sites”...

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How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents “RugLife”

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People Photographed With Their Vehicles

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Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others :...

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Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti . “I...

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The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled

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