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Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space

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Alternate Landscapes of Diasporic Homelands

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Exhibition Aids Ashville’s Hurricane-Stricken Arts Community

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In LA’s Hall of Records, New Artworks Look to the Past and Future

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Hilarious Image of Squirrel Stuck in Tree Wins Wildlife Photo Award

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Change your shoes

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How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

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Once again, The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. If you’re shopping online,...

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The opportunity for AI formbots

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Lorraine O’Grady, Who Dismantled Art World Binaries, Dies at 90

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Go Back Home, Your Mother Made You Waffles

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“What would happen if you spent a nanosecond on the surface of...

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Time Lapse: From Pinecone to Pine Tree in 110 Seconds

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Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home

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Purchase College Was Founded to Make Quality Arts Education Affordable

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Guadalupe Maravilla’s Volcanic Rock Sculptures Invoke Resilience and Regeneration

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Look at feisty confectionary upstart Skittles trying to get in on the...

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The Quest to Turn Human Waste Into Medicine

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The Invention That Accidentally Made McMansions

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Animals as Chemical Factories

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To Whom Does the World Belong?

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I really like this: “If you think about it, the very best...

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Restoring Vintage Star Wars Posters

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Evan Gershkovich, recently freed by the Putin regime, has the lead byline...

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Our Favorite Stories of 2024

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Touching The Elephant: Notes from a Haitian in the Diaspora

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Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines. “Parents in the...

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Museums should be free, but if they can’t be free, they should...

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The stories of Daniel Dennett

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Silliness and Style Take Top Honors in the 2024 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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Listening to organizational decline

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How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra

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The Sinking of the Britannic: An Animated Introduction to the Titanic’s Forgotten Sister Ship

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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A Year in Reading: Power to the People

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Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World

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Wow, look at this video of wild skating — a thin layer...

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A Bizarre Animation Imagines Botanical Growth Gone Awry

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I’m sorry, but if you need to fact-check an interview with your...

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Required Reading

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The Biggest Bomb in the World

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Seattle Art Museum Security Guards End 12-Day Strike

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A View From the Easel

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A Guide to UK Art Spaces Outside London

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Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral

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How Did the Korean Feminist Movement Influence Art?

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Five Video Essays for the Holiday Season

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A list of medieval English dog names, including Fyndewell, Sturdy, Plodder, Harmeles,...

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Best New York City Art Shows of 2024

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This is interesting and somewhat counterintuitive: “Fare-free transit is not an environmental...

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