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Ingredients for brilliance

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The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved?

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Ready to be…

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Hear What Shakespeare Sounded Like in the Original Pronunciation

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Jim Shaw Peels Back American Pop Culture’s Facade

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The Dark Side of Education

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Donald Trump’s Cultural Revolution

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Squeaky wheels

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The Grammar of Fantasy and the Fantastic Binomial: Beloved Italian Children’s Book Author Gianni Rodari on Creativity and the Key to Great Storytelling

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Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina

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Against the Pleasurable Luxury of Despair and the Aridity of Self-pity: Doris Lessing on the Artist’s Task in Trying Times

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Uphill and downhill challenges

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A Trump-Musk Feud That’s Ripe for the Meme-ing

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An Astronaut Finds Symbiosis with Nature in Agus Putu Suyadnya’s Uncanny Paintings

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San Francisco Art Institute Becomes Free Experimental Studio Program

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William Mophos Conjures the Carefree Joys of Childhood on Salvaged Architecture

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Natural Motifs Entwine the Monumental Figures of Robert Pruitt’s Divine Portraits

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‘Do You Have a Family?’: Midlife With No Kids, Ageing Parents–and No Crisis

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In Death, New Life: The Science And Symbolism of a Whale Fall

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Why philosophy of physics?

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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On burning bridges

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An Introduction to George Orwell’s 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth

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Talking Heads Release the First Official Video for “Psycho Killer”: Watch It Online

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Reskate’s Youthful Murals Transform into Glowing Symbols of Peace

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Apocalypse Art Has Never Been More Relevant

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Art Dealer Daniel Lelong Dies at 92

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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Pride Gets a Medieval Twist at NYC’s St. John Cathedral

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Color Therapy: Explore the Colossal Shop’s New Summer Collection

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Pérez Art Museum Miami Launches Open Call For Digital Art Commissions

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Announcing the 2025 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows

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‘Maintenance Artist’ Highlights Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Radical, Caring Approach to Public Art

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Laughing With the Pain

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Miss Thing

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A nasogenital tale

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When the State Department Used Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz to Fight the Cold War (1956)

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The Weekly World News version of the future

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William Faulkner Resigns From His Post Office Job With a Spectacular Letter (1924)

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Is the Decline of Reading Poisoning Our Politics?

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Everyone Is Already Using AI (and Hiding It)

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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images

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Artist Covers Transphobic Billboard With Giant Dachshund Drawing

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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer

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Man Smashes Ancient Terracotta Warriors in China

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The American Street Photographer Who Queered the Victorian Era

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Literary Citations Abound in Andrew Salgado’s Vibrantly Layered Portraits

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