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The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet

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Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School

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New evidence suggests that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000...

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Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair

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Our Favorite Art Books of 2025

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Victorian-Era Mourning Objects From the V&A’s Collection

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Remembering Frank Gehry, Martin Parr, and Mel Leipzig

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Luminous Paintings Conjure Change in Shuo Hao’s Antique Furniture Assemblages

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The 10 Best Paris Art Shows of 2025

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The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary film about...

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In Maureen McCabe's Art, the Medium Is the Message

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Timothy Snyder: “What comes next? For the Nazis, the deportation and the...

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Size of Life, a visual comparison of living things from DNA to...

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Liz Collins Explodes Cliches About Crafts

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Ain’t It a Cold, Cold World?

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TCU School of Art Offers Fully Funded Graduate Study

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Stacy Gillian Abe’s Vivid Paintings Nod to Memory, Craft, and Lineage

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I hate how good this is: Radiohead sings Santa Claus Is Coming...

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2000 Words for Japanese Rain

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Seonna Hong’s Tender Paintings Navigate Contradiction with Care

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The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what...

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NYC Cultural Institutions Group Taps New Leaders

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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

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Not in Our Name

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Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?

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Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

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A Year in Reading: When the Going Gets Tough

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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)

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Artist Nnena Kalu Wins 2025 Turner Prize

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The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us

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The 10 Best London Art Shows of 2025

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Beer With a Painter: Melissa Joseph

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Museum Grants Terminated by Trump Reinstated After Court Order

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New York: Best of 2025

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Anti-ICE Nativities Take a Stand Against Trump’s Cruelty

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A Charlie Brown Christmas, Live

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Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom

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The Best Books of 2025

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We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner....

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The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025

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What’s a UFO Show With No Flying Saucers?

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The Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top

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A “particularly inventive” Rube Goldberg marble run maze. Lots of elements doing...

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Launch a Community-Centered Design Career with an MDes From the University of Arkansas

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Li Yi-Fan to Represent Taiwan at the 61st Venice Biennale

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Model Employees

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Trung Tran Studio Incorporates Mature Trees into a Warm Brick Home in Vietnam

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The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

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