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Inside, the valley sings

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Will Trump Ruin the Art Market?

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Is inherited wealth bad?

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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

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Love Anyway

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Skepticism, surprise and resistance

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Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”

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When Hannibal Lecter Took Over

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The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

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Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

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Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes

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How Trump Is Jeopardizing the US Art Market

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Smithsonian to Return Three Looted Bronzes to Indian Government

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Another NFT Platform Bites the Dust

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Michelangelo and Titian’s Rivalry That May Never Have Been

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The Unexpected Epiphanies of Watching 57 Movies With my Sleeping Newborn

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Remembering John H. Beyer, Marian Goodman, and Chung Sang-hwa

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Vintage Tourist Maps of Japan

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Ingrid Hernández Reveals Tijuana’s Hidden Beauty

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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

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Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited by Matthew Butterick, a type designer &...

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Art is Better Together: A Letter from Our Editorial Director

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Clint Smith visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery,...

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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive.

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These 1,000-Year-Old Paper Flowers, Sealed in a Cave, Are a Marvel of Preservation

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Bruce Springstein wrote & recorded a song about Minnesota’s battle against tyranny:...

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Let This Darkness Be

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David Lynch Went to the First Beatles Concert in the US (1964)

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Why do RSS readers look like email clients? “When we applied that...

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A collection of “well-made apps and sites” gathered by Marcin Wichary....

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How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents “RugLife”

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People Photographed With Their Vehicles

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Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others: Perception, pattern-seeking, and the...

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Kristen Radtke remembers Alex Pretti. “I didn’t realize, in the hours before...

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The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled

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James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

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Why does light exist?

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Nan Goldin's Battle Against Censorship

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It Was the Most Violent Prison in America. Then the Guards Went on Strike

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On the hiring line

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RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS

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Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)

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The Light Between Us

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Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

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An Archive of Italian Graphic Design

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Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Art Gallery of Ontario’s Halted Acquisition

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For Dyani White Hawk, Love Is an Act of Resistance

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