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J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

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More like itself

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Evergreen: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We...

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Hew Locke’s Constant Motion

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The paradox of ‘on trend’

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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

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Variety has a list of 50 great movies from 2025 that are...

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What Hew Locke Carries

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In 2026, Democracy Needs Museums

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Investigating a possible Daft Punk Easter egg: is the tempo of Harder,...

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David Wojnarowicz’s Lessons in the Age of Surveillance

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Trump Sells Off Jesus Painting for $2.75M at NYE Party

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360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNG’s...

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Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

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Opportunities in January 2026

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Apply for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s 2027 Arts/Industry Residency

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Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! “Thermochauvinism is the (often...

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It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point

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Terry Facey Painstakingly Replicates a 17th-Century Marquetry Table at 1:8 Scale

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Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain...

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“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

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NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

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Cover Song for the Second Law: A Poem for Beginnings

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Curling Up in a Cozy Art Studio

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Searching for Seamus Heaney

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Bottlenecks

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When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog

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The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life

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The Art Crossword: Art Deco Edition

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medicine and Personal Health as a Political Act

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Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

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Art, Truth, and the Work Ahead

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Becoming a Centenarian

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1981 time machine

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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

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Celebrate Public Domain Day with Betty Boop and Piet Mondrian

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Fred Wilson Reflects Our World in Black and White

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‘Modern Japanese Printmakers’ Celebrates Vibrant Mid-20th-Century Innovation

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Kottke Wrapped 2025

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Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

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Happy Public Domain Day to All Who Celebrate! You Can Now Use Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'The Maltese Falcon' for Free

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Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

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Remembering the Art Restorer Who Lifted Our Spirits

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Balthazar, 1997

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Which kind of ‘enough’?

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The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice

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