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Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

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The Rowboat

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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

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The Pleasure of Being Left Alone

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Betye Saar, Simone Forti, Walter Benjamin

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“Welcome back”

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Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age

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Heritage Bookbinding Elements Transform in Contemporary Sculptures by Adelene Koh

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Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

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The Thorny Politics of Protest Photography

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California Exhibition to Document One of the US’s Worst Deportation Campaigns

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15 Outdoor Art Shows to See in NYC This Summer

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Long-Contested Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Gets Opening Date

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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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How a Former Military Settlement in Taipei Became an Artist Residency

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V&A Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over “Amazon-Style” Conditions

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The Top Photos in the CWAS David Malin Awards Highlight Astronomical Wonders

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A View From the Easel

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Was My Teacher Murdered?

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Reflections Dazzle in the Hyperrealistic Chrome Faces of Kip Omolade’s Vivid Portraits

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Gaza’s Deadly Soil

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Simone Forti’s Dance of Life

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Resist the technocrats

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“That doesn’t work”

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Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real

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Blackie & Co.: A Blackbird’s Lesson in Friendship

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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

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The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem...

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Simone Forti, Artist of Movement and Chance, Dies at 91

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What Are the Most Untouchable Records in Sports?

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

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Trump Regilds DC Statues Mar-a-Lago Style

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A Telegram Arrived — And I Had to Choose Between My Head...

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Why Did Rembrandt Die Poor?

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“ A new Airbus passenger jet completed an...

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The Drawing Room With Mo Welch

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Meet Britain’s Hikikomori

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Todd Caissie Takes the Helm at the Montclair Art Museum

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Required Reading

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The Beauty of Doing Nothing Together . “What...

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Trump’s Border Expansion Threatens 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings

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Lifelike Birds Emerge from Foliage in Painted Paper Reliefs by The Paper Ark

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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

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Zac Henderson Venerates Devil’s Tower in Bold Black-and-White Photos

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The Hell Mouth

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Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List

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A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go

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This, Too, Shall Pass

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The legacy of the Luddite movement changes when you zoom...

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