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Joyce Kozloff’s Patterns of Resistance

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🔔 Laaaast call for The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. If you...

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36 Things That Stuck With Us in 2024, including Chappell Roan, Missy...

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Researchers Identify Psychedelic Cocktail in Ancient Egyptian Mug

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Art Therapists on the Frontlines of Trauma Struggle for Recognition

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A group of scientists warns against creating mirror cells. This sentence is...

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Street Art Meets Aboriginal Culture in the Work of Reko Rennie

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Steven Englander, Visionary Director of ABC No Rio, Dies at 63

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Werner Herzog’s Anticlimatic Exploration of the Human Brain

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Sarah Lewis on Ways of Seeing Race in America

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What Are Your Personal Foundational Texts?

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What Professional Organizers Know About Our Lives

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Then Comes The Body

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It is easy to be cynical about the do-gooding motivations of a...

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Yo-Yo Ma played the prelude to Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G...

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Two More Tiny Desks

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Apple has renewed Silo for two more seasons. The show will end...

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Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More

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Six Handbags

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Roaming rocks

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If they know, they should tell us

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The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained

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Best of 2024: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year

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Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs

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Trailer for The White Lotus Season Three

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Speaking of Tiny Desk Concerts, the most popular set of 2024 (18M...

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The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings

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Louise Bourgeois’s Iconic Spider Returning to Tate Modern

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Sheila Hicks’s Faith in the Latent Power of Materials

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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: December 2024

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Noguchi Museum Workers Move to Unionize

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Beautiful Plan of Your Future

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Banksy Shares Enigmatic Madonna and Child Artwork

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Actual things my parents said while watching my son’s swimming lesson. “MOM:...

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UCLA’s New Three-Year MFA in Media Arts Is Accepting Applications

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HPV vaccines have been linked to a steep drop in cervical cancer...

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Billie Eilish’s Tiny Desk Concert

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“Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country.”...

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Quirky Facades of Japan’s Love Hotels Feature in François Prost’s Vibrant Portraits

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Isle of Tune: a web-based game where you build streetscapes that play...

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From an old version of the Wikipedia page for Warren G and...

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Paper Christmas Trees by Maho Motoyama Take Holiday Boxes to a New Level

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Kottke Comments, Now With Faves

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Household objects up close

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What’s in the rule of law?

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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

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What do we do with our chance?

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Best of 2024: Our Most Popular Stories of the Year

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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Surreptitious Scents

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