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The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction

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Reclaiming a Whitewashed History of the Great Depression

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Art Dealers Get Candid Ahead of the Armory Show

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Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

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Possibility vs. certainty

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Food bonus post

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Brittle systems

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Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off Workers

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Facing $15M Budget Deficit, CalArts Lays Off 12 Workers

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The 2025 NY Art Book Fair Returns to MoMA PS1

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A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go

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Here’s the trailer for Bugonia, dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos & starring frequent...

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A Veteran Pixar Animator’s Newest Book Is an Epic Undertaking That Began 5,000 Years Ago

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Atmospheric Oil Paintings by Martin Wittfooth Illuminate Nature’s Timeless Cycles

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My Colon

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

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Poison

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Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years

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I Am An AI Hater. “But I am a hater, and I...

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Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months

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Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape

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World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future

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Required Reading

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Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass

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Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism

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A View From the Easel

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Dan Wang on his forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the...

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A group of 15-20 families in South Portland, Maine have installed landlines...

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

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These contact lenses give their wearers the ability to see infrared light,...

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‘Where’s Waldo?’ Meets Sarcastic, Dystopian Visions in Ben Tolman’s Elaborate Ink Drawings

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A collection of kooky-but-rideable bikes (treadmill bike, pull-up bike, etc.)...

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The Salacious Middle Ages

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My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods

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Light pollution has lengthened birds’ days. “Their day is almost an hour...

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Janet Echelman’s Suspended Nets Radiate Across 25 Years in ‘Radical Softness’

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Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time...

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Kevin Kelly recently published a guide called “Everything I Know about Self-Publishing”....

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For people who don’t care that much

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1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums

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The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope

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Werner Herzog doesn’t use a cell phone, but he has joined Instagram....

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“The world’s biggest frogs build their own ponds” is art as a...

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Your Guide to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs

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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?

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Photographs That Depict Alzheimer’s With Dignity

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“More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from...

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Pennsylvania Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Grant Cuts

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Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America

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