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Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue

Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and...

Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

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A Dying Art

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Beckett the Prophet

A Matter of Form (1984)

Patrick Dougherty’s ‘Stickwork’ Installations Conjure Connections with Nature

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The Children Who Loved a Killer

All the Queens houses

David Hockney’s Endless Scroll

The savage bites back

How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff

Industrialism and the slippery slope

A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History

How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson

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Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

Frozen Polygon Waves

Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director

Beyond Greece and Rome

Carl Jung on Creativity

Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva

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Debra Broz’s Kitschy ‘Superorganisms’ Are Both Familiar and Strange

Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival

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Saman and Sasan Oskouei’s Sculptures Puncture the Weight of Everyday Objects

Unclassifiable Artists

A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...

You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings

Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them

Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment

I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...

Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum

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

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...

“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...

Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure

The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Genesis Belanger’s Uncanny Sculptures

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

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The Anti-Sunscreen Movement Is Coming for You

Can cells think?