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How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

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Whitney Biennial, Can You Hear Us?

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Systems and the default to yes

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Marica Vilcek, Graceful Champion of Immigrant Artists, Dies at 89

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How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb

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How to Survive AI

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David Morrison’s Alluring Drawings Spring from the Blank Page

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UK Museums Hold Over 260,000 Human Remains, Report Finds

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Taking a Seat at Robert Therrien’s Table

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Inside the Met Museum’s Historic Raphael Exhibition

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A View From the Easel

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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...

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Corrective for a Broken Heart

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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...

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Painterly Figures Entwine in Soojin Choi’s Ceramic Sculptures

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Remembering Pat Steir

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Catastrophe markets

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What’s in the status bottle?

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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

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The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

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Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland

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Art Movements: A Canceled Biennale Show Finds a New Home

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Frida-Mania Hits MoMA

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Ambiguity Reigns in Olaf Hajek’s Mysterious Illustrations

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New School Faculty React to Plans to Lay Off 15% of Workforce

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Beacons in a Grim World

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‘The Worst Neighbor Ever’

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NYU Steinhardt Presents 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

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There’s an upside-down “H” on the...

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Pat Steir, Painter of Cascading Infinities, Dies at 87

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Required Reading

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Remembering Asher Remy-Toledo, Media Art Luminary

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A Short Film Joins the Timeless Swiss Masked Tradition of Silvesterchlausen

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A comparison of different sorting algorithms (bubble,...

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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How American Camouflage Conquered the World

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‘Get Down! Get Down! They’re Gonna See Us!’: Six Months of Hiding From ICE

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She never dances alone

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Tracey Emin’s Therapy Art

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One China, one world

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Hollow Body

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The end of the content shortage

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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

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Stephen Colbert is co-writing a Lord of the Rings movie...

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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

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Women Are Being Abandoned by Their Partners on Hiking Trails. What’s Behind ‘Alpine Divorce’?

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Tracey Emin’s Cult of the Self

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