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Semiquincentennial Blues

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Trump’s Unhinged Attacks on the Smithsonian

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‘The emperor is far away’

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My Almond Archive

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The Builder’s Creed

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How Nashville Became Home to a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon

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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher

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Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship

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Trump Accuses Smithsonian of “Anti-White Activism” in Draconian New Report

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The Met Museum's Staff Have Some Thoughts About the Art

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America’s Greatest Hot Dog

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Carmelita Tropicana Was Born Out of the Closet

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Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum

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Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026...

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In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor

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Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist

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The Ruthless Portraits of Elizabeth I’s Reign

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Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”

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Veks Van Hillik Suspends Fish, Insects, and Other Objects in Surreal Murals

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Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself

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👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...

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How I Bought a Private Jet by Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media

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The (Mostly) True Story of Hobo Graffiti

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Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million

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A Young Magician Wanted to Build an Epic Magic Collection. Did He Go Too Far?

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The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...

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Bard MFA Presents 2026 Thesis Exhibition in Barrytown, NY

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San Francisco Art Book Fair Celebrates 10 Years

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I love this short little video montage of actresses...

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One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...

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America: Birth Of A Nation

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In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...

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Vibrant Folded Canvases Form Garment-Like Sculptures by Susan Maddux

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Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...

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Begone dull care

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Inside Akira Ikezoe’s Studio

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Skill nostalgia

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Facts and feelings

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When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)

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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)

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Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González

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The urgency paradox

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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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Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us

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Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture

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A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi

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Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space

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Art and Resistance on the Nation’s 250th

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