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How Art Conservators Restore Old Paintings & Revive Their Original Colors

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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

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San Francisco Art Book Fair Returns With More Programming Than Ever

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The All-Over Art of Hamid Zénati

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The Intense Intimacy of Caravaggio

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When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering

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From The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your...

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To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a...

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Perfect

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How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

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Happening all day today: a Reading Rainbow marathon on PBS Retro. PBS...

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Greg Corbino’s Fish Puppets Made from Reclaimed Trash Migrate Along the Hudson River

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But what do they say at the meeting?

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Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art

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For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order...

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Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now

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Play Along With This Gestural Verbing Interactive Video

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Formula One Cars Are Fast. Like Super Fast.

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Lucy Davidson’s Stop-Motion Animation ‘Baggage’ Travels Through an ‘Insecurity Inspection’

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As an aid to his travel planning, Kevin Kelly has compiled a...

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A group of researchers tracked down the original photo used in the...

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Climate Activists Splash Paint on a Picasso in Montreal

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Seth Armstrong Sets the Hills of Los Angeles Aglow in Vibrant Oil Paintings

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Yawns

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Today’s weather report styled like The Weather Channel in the 90s: WeatherStar...

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You Sure You’re In The Mood For Another Wes Anderson Film With...

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Decisions and opportunity in America are no longer cheap. “Life is an...

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Mapping the Unmapped

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

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African Mythology and Ancestry Merge in Zak Ové’s Exuberant Sculptures

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Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little...

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How Societies Morph With the Seasons

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Merveilleux-scientifique

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Confused by signals

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When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the Netherlands

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Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” & Other Rock Hits: A Cult Classic Recorded in 1976

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Want to use your phone less? Try Forest. “Whenever you want to...

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Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze

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An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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Scientists Recreate Ancient Egypt’s Prized Blue Pigment

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Nowhere in the World To Run: The International Law Ripping Children From Their Mothers

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The Fear of Never Landing is a new album from ambient music...

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Changing Lanes

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New Music Video for Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer (feat. Saoirse Ronan)

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They are doing a Spaceballs 2. (“They” includes Mel Brooks and Rick...

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A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small...

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