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A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

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The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

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Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Isolated, Scared, Forlorn: The Heartbreaking Final Months of Virginia Giuffre’s Life

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Beyond Greece and Rome

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From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

Pointless banality and the uncanny valley

Borges on How to Conquer Time

How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

Edwin Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art

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The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration

A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight

Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds

Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer

Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem

My Mother Died On Screen But Survived Hollywood

A View From the Easel

‘Voices in the Mirror’ Honors the Legacy of Pioneering Photographer Gordon Parks

How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”

Planned Charlie Kirk Statue Gets Trolled

Transit of wonder

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Resources and focus

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake

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Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize

Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online

Manhattan DA’s Office Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico

TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness

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