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Giant Wieners, Drag Queens, and Curtis Sliwa at “The Most American Pageant Ever!”

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Required Reading

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What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?

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Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...

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A Dying Art

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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...

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Beckett the Prophet

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A Matter of Form (1984)

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Patrick Dougherty’s ‘Stickwork’ Installations Conjure Connections with Nature

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An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...

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“ This map shows the predicted density of...

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The Children Who Loved a Killer

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All the Queens houses

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David Hockney’s Endless Scroll

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The savage bites back

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How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff

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Industrialism and the slippery slope

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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History

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How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson

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Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The...

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Protesters Decry Chinatown Museum’s Acceptance of “Jail Money” at Town Hall

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Frozen Polygon Waves

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Tate Names Dia Leader Jessica Morgan as Next Director

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Beyond Greece and Rome

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Carl Jung on Creativity

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Beyond the Myth of Chico da Silva

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What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us...

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Debra Broz’s Kitschy ‘Superorganisms’ Are Both Familiar and Strange

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Remembering Christine Borland, John Will, and Astrid Furnival

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A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail...

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There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...

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Saman and Sasan Oskouei’s Sculptures Puncture the Weight of Everyday Objects

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Unclassifiable Artists

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A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...

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You Can Love David Hockney and Still Hate His iPad Paintings

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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them

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Artists Sue NYC Gallery The Hole for Nonpayment

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I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...

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Juliana Huxtable and Mark Bradford in Major Gift to the Zimmerli Art Museum

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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

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The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...

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“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...

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Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure

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The Era of Contradiction Materializes in Genesis Belanger’s Uncanny Sculptures

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Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

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Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It...

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The Anti-Sunscreen Movement Is Coming for You

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Can cells think?

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Jimothy, Meme and Muse

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Accidental Historian

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