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Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer

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Her Greatest Hits

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When William S. Burroughs Appeared on Saturday Night Live: His First TV Appearance (1981)

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“The future of the Department of Education — and of the students...

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Hyperallergic Mini Art Crossword: February 2025

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Five NYC Art Shows to See This Week

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A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son

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Finding Flaco Lovingly Details Owl’s Year of Freedom

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Luis Barragán’s Pink Equestrian Estate to Become a Public Arts Hub

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Qatar to Build National Pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini

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The Secret Pattern

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19-year-old Simone de Beauvoir’s Resolutions for a Life Worth Living

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Immigrant Artists Receive $250,000 From the Vilcek Foundation

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NBA star Victor Wembanyama brought a book with him to the All-Star...

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The Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at an all-time high right...

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“We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart,” says Hamilton Nolan. “How...

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Amid shortages of air traffic controllers & fatal aircraft events, the Trump...

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16 minutes

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Elon Musk’s attack on key US government systems and agencies continues with...

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From Heather Cox Richardson, an overview of what the Trump administration is...

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Charles Gaines Maps the Meanings of Ancient Baobab Trees in Meticulous Charts

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Prayer is the greatest freedom of all

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The bookends of time

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Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A

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All of it, all at once

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Watch the Historic First Episode of Saturday Night Live with Host George Carlin (1975)

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Inside SNL: Al Franken Reveals How Saturday Night Live Is Crafted Every Week

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Raoul De Keyser’s Dramas of Looking

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The Artist Bending Modernism Toward Mysticism

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Roxanne Jackson’s Fantasia Under the Sea

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Philip Guston Mural Warning Against Fascism Restored in Mexico

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Time well spent

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The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long...

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Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at...

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New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In...

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Ensemble stars

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My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition

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Australia’s Decision to Drop Its Venice Biennale Artist Ignites Uproar

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How Trying Became Cool Again

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Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...

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Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...

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The Crazy Thing About Babies

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Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...

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I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...

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Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...

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Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...

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Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips

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Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...

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From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....

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