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A Drama of Two Masters

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Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks

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I love these looping GIF animations from...

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Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan’s Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food

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Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists

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Turner and Constable Hit the Screen

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Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

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

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A search for answers

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Talking Raphael

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The hypercurious mind

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Art Retreats in the South of France Offer Mirth, Myth, and Mystery

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Xiaoze Xie Preserves a Growing Collection of Banned Books in Porcelain

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Redundancy and resilience

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How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)

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Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

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Long odds and unseen differences

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Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

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Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

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How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

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Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?

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Systems and the default to yes

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Marica Vilcek, Graceful Champion of Immigrant Artists, Dies at 89

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How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

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How to Survive AI

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David Morrison’s Alluring Drawings Spring from the Blank Page

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UK Museums Hold Over 260,000 Human Remains, Report Finds

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Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table

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Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

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A View From the Easel

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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...

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Corrective for a Broken Heart

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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...

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Painterly Figures Entwine in Soojin Choi’s Ceramic Sculptures

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Remembering Pat Steir

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Catastrophe markets

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What’s in the status bottle?

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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

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The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

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Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland

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Art Movements: A Canceled Biennale Show Finds a New Home

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Frida-Mania Hits MoMA

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Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek’s Mysterious Illustrations

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New School Faculty React to Plans to Lay Off 15% of Workforce

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