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When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering

From The Onion: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your...

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him. “you had a...

Perfect

How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

Happening all day today: a Reading Rainbow marathon on PBS Retro. PBS...

Greg Corbino’s Fish Puppets Made from Reclaimed Trash Migrate Along the Hudson River

But what do they say at the meeting?

Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art

For fans of Edith Zimmerman, a new Etsy offering: “A 4x6” made-to-order...

Ringling Museum Will Stay Under Florida State University, for Now

Play Along With This Gestural Verbing Interactive Video

Formula One Cars Are Fast. Like Super Fast.

Lucy Davidson’s Stop-Motion Animation ‘Baggage’ Travels Through an ‘Insecurity Inspection’

As an aid to his travel planning, Kevin Kelly has compiled a...

A group of researchers tracked down the original photo used in the...

Climate Activists Splash Paint on a Picasso in Montreal

Seth Armstrong Sets the Hills of Los Angeles Aglow in Vibrant Oil Paintings

Yawns

Today’s weather report styled like The Weather Channel in the 90s: WeatherStar...

You Sure You’re In The Mood For Another Wes Anderson Film With...

Decisions and opportunity in America are no longer cheap. “Life is an...

Mapping the Unmapped

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

African Mythology and Ancestry Merge in Zak Ové’s Exuberant Sculptures

Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little...

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Merveilleux-scientifique

Confused by signals

When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the Netherlands

Elementary School Kids Sing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” & Other Rock Hits: A Cult Classic Recorded in 1976

Want to use your phone less? Try Forest. “Whenever you want to...

Alice Austen’s Pioneering Lesbian Gaze

An LA Show Breathes New Life Into Fire-Damaged Art

Required Reading

A View From the Easel

Scientists Recreate Ancient Egypt’s Prized Blue Pigment

Nowhere in the World To Run: The International Law Ripping Children From Their Mothers

The Fear of Never Landing is a new album from ambient music...

Changing Lanes

New Music Video for Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer (feat. Saoirse Ronan)

They are doing a Spaceballs 2. (“They” includes Mel Brooks and Rick...

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small...

Against Death: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on Grieving a Parent, Grieving the World, and What Makes Life Worth Living

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full...

A Crushing Wave of Snow

What Is Juneteenth and Why Does It Matter?

Just dropped yesterday: Lane 8’s Summer 2025 Mixtape. Got this on right...

Crimes of the Century