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Dara Birnbaum, Video Art’s “Wonder Woman,” Dies at 78

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Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS

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Judge Halts Trump’s Cuts to Museum and Library Funding Agency

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Since 1981, One Man Has Relocated Nearly 1,000 Snowy Owls from Logan Airport

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60-year-old cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has spent a little over three full years...

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The Best Signs and Art of This Year’s Massive May Day Protests

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States of Possession: Erich Neumann on Creativity, the Unconscious, and the Psychology of Transformation

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What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology...

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Meet the Next Changemakers in Art & Design at Parsons Festival

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Discarded Packaging and Labels Find New Life in Kelly Kozma’s Vibrant Patchworks

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The World’s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas

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3D-printed Starbucks? Sure, why not. “3D-printed construction is really taking off throughout...

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This Artist-Run Archive Preserves Endangered Photographic Negatives in a Celebration of Lagos

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Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep?

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Does Anyone Still Hitchhike?

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Some rules for a private dinner party for “Fucked Up Individuals”, including...

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Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Methodical banality

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Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life.

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The biggest thing you bring to the project is forward

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How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom

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Fried Fish & Family Affairs

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A recent survey “shows a steep decline in the number of parents...

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10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This May

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Architectural Textiles by Sarah Zapata Explore Material Culture and Intersecting Identities

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Theoretical Gravastars Are Even Weirder Than Black Holes

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What to See in Upstate New York This May

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How Can Queer Artists Escape the Trap of Tokenization?

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Two Arrested at The Encampments Screening at UCLA

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Required Reading

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An Artist’s Alluring Paintings About Consumption and Waste

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After a Decade in Storage, Banksy Mural Goes on View in New York

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Retro USAID t-shirts featuring a classic logo from the 50s. “50% of...

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A View From the Easel

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Scope of Work’s Spencer Wright on imports, tariffs, and maturity. “I buy...

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Ooh, I like this question: “What is the best album released by...

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SMFA at Tufts Presents Through Shifting Lenses, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition

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What Is Fascism?

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Pirouette Abecedarium at MoMA: “Twenty-six designers, scholars, DJs, photographers, and entrepreneurs will...

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Frank Kunert’s Uncanny Photos Chronicle a Surreal Miniature World

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Scientists on the Trump regime’s war on science in the US. “However...

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Why Lawrence of Arabia Still Looks Like a Billion Bucks

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“The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We...

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May 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Opportunities in May 2025

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The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables

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The best photographer you’ve never heard of

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How to Scam Like a Celebrity

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