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World in a Box

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Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

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Aerial Foodscapes

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Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.

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I missed this back in August: the excellent Art of the Title...

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Vital Impacts’ ‘Saving the Monarchs’ Campaign with Jaime Rojo Raises Funds for Conservation

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Tressie McMillan Cottom: “Whether you call it crony capitalism or just an...

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Great Casey Johnston piece on how chronic pain & capitalism intersect in...

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“The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the...

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Three Women Artists Gather for The Jaunt and Hashimoto Contemporary’s ‘Winter Camp’

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Peter Capaldi reads a letter from the First World War

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Why the old man dances

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Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That Girl & More

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Better at being better

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A Year in Reading: On Paying Attention

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Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

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I just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, including some gifts...

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Now Serving: Drinkable Mayonnaise

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Nan Goldin Speaks Out on Censorship of Berlin Show

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Nikki Giovanni, “Princess of Black Poetry,” Dies at 81

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The Meme Glorification of Luigi Mangione

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I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies

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Holiday Terms & Conditions (A Christmas Album). Lyrics include: “It’s beginning to...

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Vatican Removes Baby Jesus With Keffiyeh From Nativity

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Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy

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A Luminous Chapel to the Late Richard Mayhew

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Bryan Cranston Reads From Robert Caro’s The Power Broker

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Recently found: a message in a bottle at an archaeological dig left...

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Biologist Karen Lips Investigates Vanishing Tree Frogs in ‘The Waiting’

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Racing’s Deadliest Day. After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, “it would be...

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Something in You Hungers for Clarity: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Writing and the Power of Words to Remake the World

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Bernie Kaminski Invokes Decades Past Through Papier-Mâché Objects

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Monument Valley 3 is out today on iOS & Android and is...

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The Origin of Delay, Deny, Defend

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Check Out the 2025 Moon Phases

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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?

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If you haven’t had the pleasure, you should double back and read...

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The old school Oregon Trail video game is being adapted into an...

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Maxwell Mustardo’s Fluorescing Ceramics Merge Ancient Craft with Contemporary Style

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Can you transplant a head to another body?

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How many sparks?

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The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically Evolved

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A Year in Reading: The Wounds That Bind

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When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts

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In Training: A Book of Bonsai Photos

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Looking at Art Will Never Be the Same Again

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Museum Showing Pussy Riot Artwork Targeted in Apparent Vandalism

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Karen Wilkin: Critiquing the New Masters

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A very simple little browser game: open the microwave door as close...

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Straight White Male, the Game of Life’s Lowest Difficulty Setting

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