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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

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One Man’s Quest for the End of the World Started on a Ranch in Texas

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But We Had Music

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Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the...

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An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance

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How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

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Art Movements: Anicka Yi Picks Up the Pace

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Required Reading

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The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

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Earth’s gravity is lumpy . “The gravity in...

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Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception

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The Ballad of Ollie Jackson

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Big Tuskers

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This is kind of amazing: World Monitor is a real-time...

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A View From the Easel

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Yes, let’s retire the restaurant monologue ....

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Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake

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From ProPublica, a database of financial disclosures...

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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on HyperCard

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What Happens When We Die

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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

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Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute...

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Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen’s Photograms

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The Four Rules for a Good Walk

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Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth :...

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“The entire Sun oscillates in a globally coherent...

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Scale the Dramatic Verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrath’s Dreamy Photos

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Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity

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After rain

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How to Heal Your Creative Hangover

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On her own terms

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Imagination is work

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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome

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The Dark and Stormy Tale of a ShantyTok Band

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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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