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25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250

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Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager

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‘Big Walk’ Is a New Video Game about … Walking and Talking

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Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...

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US Authorities Investigate Huge Etching of ‘8647’ on...

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A View From the Easel

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David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his...

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Delcy Morelos Tends to Sepulchral Installations in a Divine Connection to the Land

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There Was No American Regional Cuisine Until One 'Virginia Housewife' Thought to Compile a Diverse Collection of Recipes

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The War Against Imagination

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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A philosophy of home

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Nü Tennis

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When Roald Dahl Wrote a Story Predicting the Rise of ChatGPT and Other AI Large Language Models (1954)

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

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Sarah Schulman’s Four Decades of Lesbian Fiction

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Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For...

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“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a...

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Art Movements: Sam Gilliam Foundation Names Its First Director

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Required Reading

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This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early...

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Charleston’s African American Museum Furloughs All Staff

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A Better World at the Obama Center

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‘Women in Trees’ Celebrates a Quirky Collection of Anonymous Snapshots

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They Want to Control Our Imagination

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A Hand-Drawn Visual Guide to Chili Peppers

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Painting “Intentionally” Defaced at Museum of African American Culture

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John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) ....

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Submitting to the Beast

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How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

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A close-up look at some of Spain’s oldest & most...

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For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the...

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Becoming by Max Cooper

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“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in...

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Natural Dyes Merge with Mixed Media in Annalise Neil’s Dreamy Cyanotypes

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Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever ....

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Thornton Wilder’s Last Play Vanished Into Thin Air. Or Did It?

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Don’t touch the art

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Carmen Maria Machado on Power

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‘It’s More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women’s Travel Writing

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The no-human future

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Values capture

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How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse

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David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs

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How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family

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James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

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Phoenix Art Museum Receives Largest Gift of Native American Works

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The White House’s Top Science Goal Is Ignorance . “The...

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Domestic Arrangements Unfold in Kristof Santy’s Vivid Paintings

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