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Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”

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Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

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Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring

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15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring

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Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch

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From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on...

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In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture

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Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum

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Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten

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Cordy Ryman’s Playful Remix of Minimalism

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Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone

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Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...

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De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert

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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

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25 Years of iPod Brain

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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

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What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live

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TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...

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Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya

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The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...

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TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...

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Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding

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Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)

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Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...

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The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity

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Exploratorium

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Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek

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The Uncanny Valley

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The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit

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Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

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First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial

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Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut’s Warriors March Toward Belonging

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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body

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LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...

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70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring

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Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?

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A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’

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The Man Who Broke Into Jail

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“ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...

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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

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Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora

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HyperCard Changed Everything

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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...

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Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet

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Masayoshi Matsumoto Meticulously Transforms Balloons into Expressive Critters

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Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...

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Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

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New Rembrandt Painting Discovered

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