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The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text

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How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look

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Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

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First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

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A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name

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“For the first time, wind and solar generated more...

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Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike

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A lovely story by Mary H.K. Choi about her husband and...

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A Poetic Short Film Animates the Counterproductive Forces of Incarceration

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The Last Straw

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The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

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From the New Yorker, a long and difficult-to-read report...

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Sanford Wurmfeld’s Unstable Geometry

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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate ....

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Nominations are open for this year’s Tiny Awards ....

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Phantasmic Figures Grapple with Their Doubles in Xie Lei’s Dreamy Oil Paintings

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Interesting question and resulting thread: have you...

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The New Mister Rogers YouTube Channel

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My Students Can’t Read . “There is a measurable,...

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Losing Paradise

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Dave Krugman’s ‘WINDOWS’ Captures a Multitudinous Portrait of New York City

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Discover MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise at Central Saint Martins

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Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969

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The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First

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Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile...

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The Paperboy’s Secret

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

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The steam engine

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Listening to Our Queer & Trans Elders

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What shape is the Earth?

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Art is a verb

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How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners

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Marketing clerks

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

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Celia Paul, Edward Hopper, Saif Azzuz

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Real artists…

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How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

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Jamie Nares’s Enduring Romance With the Brushstroke

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New School Lays Off Nearly 90 People, Dealing Blow to Humanities

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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

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We Must Protect South American Rock Art

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Is Betting on the Art Market a Terrible Idea?

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Tavares Strachan’s First Monograph Surveys an Encyclopedic Practice

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A View From the Easel

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In Los Angeles, 70 Artists Transform a Vacant Hospital into a Sprawling Art Experience

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