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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

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Dostoyevsky in Love

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

132 New York Artists Receive $903,000 in Grants

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Former V&A Academic Programs Head Accuses Museum of “Racist” Behavior

Playful Knitted Pillows by Donna Wilson Infuse Interiors with Whimsy and Joy

Meet the Curators of the Next “Made in LA”

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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!”

Required Reading

What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?

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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

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us...

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