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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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Mona Lisa’s Face Redacted in Latest Trove of Epstein Files

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Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

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Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

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Dan Sinker writes about the transformative experience of...

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

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Venom in His Veins

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“How did medieval French handwriting become...

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Do you remember Oddpost? It was an early email web app...

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Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself...

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The Forest-Like Interior of Coral Takes the Grand Prize in the CUPOTY 7 Photo Contest

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Why the Future of Movies Lives on Letterboxd

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The Art World After Epstein

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How selfish are we?

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Voluntary stories

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Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

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The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Writings on Willpower, Imagination, and Confidence

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I’ve always said more popstars should duet with...

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Epstein Files Expose the Depths of the Art World's Rot

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Art Movements: Ekow Eshun Heads to Santa Fe

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The Triumph of Europe’s Social Democracy

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Professor Walt Hunter on the merits of challenging...

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National Gallery of Art Acquires Stirring Artemisia Masterpiece

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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The Mountain That Weighed the Earth . How scientists in...

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Keep the Meter Running With Mouhamadou Aliy & Zohran Mamdani

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Some cool animations made from Japanese receipts by...

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A Haunting in Brooklyn

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Tara Donovan’s ‘Stratagems’ Tower Within a San Francisco Architectural Icon

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Times New Resistance

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Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off From the Washington Post

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10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month , from The...

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8 Art Books to Read This February

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Hour-long YouTube training session on how to observe &...

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Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Opens Applications for Sixth Grant Cycle

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The Strangers’ Case

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The Murder of ‘The Washington Post’

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A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington’s Esoteric Surrealism

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Africa’s cultural landmarks: Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

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When Will MoMA Dump Leon Black?

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Between being and emptiness

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Making it whole

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Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists

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The Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s Mysterious Manuscript That No One Can Read

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The Endless Self

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Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings

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How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize

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