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More trouble than it’s worth

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Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

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How Not to Be a Victim of Success

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Kurt Vonnegut on the Simplest, Hardest Secret of Happiness

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The Three Elements of the Good Life

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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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I learned two important pieces of news in this post: 1)...

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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older

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The Neurophysiology of Enchantment: How Music Casts Its Spell on Us

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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love

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Attention, Fascism Ahead

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The infinite tail

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Don’t Waste Your Wildness

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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself

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Tribeca Galleries Discuss Reporting Street Vendors, Drawing Criticism

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After the Strike, Will Art Galleries Be Allies?

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Eugène Atget, Readymade Icon

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What Happens When We Die

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Claude Cahun’s Survival Guide for the Ages

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James Castle Was a World Unto Himself

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Saving Rhea Seegobin

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How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook

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Onassis AiR Opens Applications for 2026–27 Residencies in Athens

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The Majesty and Mystery of Ice: 200 Years of Artists Reverencing the Wonder of Water’s Wintry Face

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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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How Emotions Are Made

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The Single Best Piece of Advice on the Creative Life

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But We Had Music

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Becoming Caravaggio

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AI ads are neither

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How the Incas Performed Skull Surgery More Successfully Than U.S. Civil War Doctors

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The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

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Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

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Art Movements: The Brooklyn Museum's New Top Contemporary Art Curator

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Michelle Segre’s Impermanent Worlds

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Lays Off 33 Workers

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Required Reading

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Lisa Funderburke Tapped to Lead Newark Museum of Art

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This guy built an autonomous flying umbrella (powered...

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Spurious Correlations

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Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

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Minnesota community leaders are calling for an...

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The Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio

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A huge collection of graphic design archives and...

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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

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“There isn’t a lot of reliable information...

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February 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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What I Learned on My First Cruise

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