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Alan Lomax Spent Years Traveling the Country to Record the Sounds of America. The Legacy of His Obsession Will Live Forever

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In the Reality Lab

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Bay of smokes

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Who Asked for an AI Art Museum?

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Video games, movies and books

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Harvard’s 1869 Entrance Exam: Could You Answer Tough Questions About Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Plane Geometry & More

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How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972)

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Knicks, Tribeca, Pride!

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Every time I see a link to one of of Car Pal’s BeamNG car...

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Nayland Blake Doesn’t Believe in Fixed Selves

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Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on...

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Artists Scramble to Rescue Works After Queens Building Fire

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7 Art Books You Should Read This Pride Month

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My Queasy, Forest-Scented Stroll Through LA’s New AI Art Museum

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CrankGPT . “Just a hand crank, a little computer,...

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‘Hold to This Earth’ Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art

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Danielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at Rest

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On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness . “The...

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Child Punctures Magritte Painting With Pinecone at Israel Museum

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SAIC Puts Professor on Leave After Palestine Reference

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Paintings of an Architectural Apocalypse

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Everything Wrong With the 2026 World Cup . “By far...

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Yesterday Was a Good Day

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Cacti and Clouds Glitch in Alexis Mata’s Fantastical Landscapes

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TIL about variant sudoku puzzles , “sudoku with...

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The excellent Scene on Radio podcast is back with a new...

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The End of Books

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‘MIZU’ Contemplates Fragility and Impermanence in a Poignant Dance with an Ice Puppet

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak

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For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony

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The True Story Behind the “El Cap Kindergartener” Ascent

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Inside Chicago’s Obama Center

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The joy of autism

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Friction: A Reading List on Why Inconvenience Can Be Meaningful

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None of it is important (and all of it is)

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The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text

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How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look

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Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

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First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

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A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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Winning Penn Station Redesign Features Trump’s Name

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“For the first time, wind and solar generated more...

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Italian Arts Workers Announce Nationwide Strike

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A lovely story by Mary H.K. Choi about her husband and...

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A Poetic Short Film Animates the Counterproductive Forces of Incarceration

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The Last Straw

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The World That Held Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

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From the New Yorker, a long and difficult-to-read report...

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