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NYC’s New Culture Commissioner

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Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized Soundtracks

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Popular (and good)

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Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)

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When Do We Become Adults, Really?

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The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

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A nearly perfect score

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

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Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

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Maximum’s Upcycled ‘Billex’ Process Turns Discarded Bank Notes into Furniture

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AI slop

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Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture Commissioner

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Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

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Inside the Sacred Valley Ceramics Studio Referencing Ancient Peruvian Practices

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Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal

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The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters: Virginia Woolf on the Fate of Every Technology

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What's a Gen X to Do?

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How to win a bidding war

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Frieze LA Meets the Real World

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The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

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The Case for Palestine at the Venice Biennale

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Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

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The Uncertain Future of Colombia’s Museum of Memory

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IDSVA Extends PhD Program to BA and BFA Applicants

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“For months, callers to the Washington state...

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A Hockey Dad, a Cartel, and a $12 Million Fraud

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Liz West Transforms a Bristol Parking Garage into a Kaleidoscopic Passageway

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A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays...

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Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum

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The Candy Factory

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Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods?...

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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer ....

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Marks found on 40,000-year-old artifacts might be a...

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The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

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Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write...

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A Pair of Elephant Seal Pups Wins the 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year

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Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate...

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The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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The Battle of Berlinale

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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station

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There are no psychopaths

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Justice and luck

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How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How the Berlinale Turned Into a Horror Show of German Censorship

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How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible

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Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural

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