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The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

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The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965

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“‘Take on Me’ is an ideal song for Song Exploder, because it’s...

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65 Essential Children’s Books, from The Story of Ferdinand and Caps for...

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Richard Feynman: Fire Is Stored Sunshine

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Where’s the AI design renaissance? “My hunch: vibe coding is a lot...

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A ‘Love Letter’ to the City, Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central

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Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art

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Edward Gorey Killed His Darlings

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Swifties Are Flocking to this German Museum

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Man Accused of Urinating on MLK Memorial

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Junk Food for the One Percent

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Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing

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Pratt Fine Arts Presents MFA Open Studios/Open Fields: An Artist Resource Fair

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The University of Texas at Austin’s Studio Art MFA Opens Applications for Fall 2026

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Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures

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Announcing Our 2025 Member Drive

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A Poignant Animation, ‘Sisters’ Explores What It Means to Set Ourselves Free

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Tyler, the Creator Always Does Things His Way

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Inside the Audacious Mission to Bring a Rare Toad Back From the Brink

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The First Monograph to Survey Derrick Adams’ Career Comes Ahead of a Major Exhibition

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Great art explained: The School of Athens by Raphael

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The other backpacks

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78 Great Directors Who Shaped the History of Cinema: An Introduction

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Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

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For instance, there is an engraved stone erected at the Buddhist Kan’ei-ji...

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Current status: looking through Atlas Obscura’s list of things to do in...

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Rapper 50 Cent, adjusted for inflation, is 109 Cent....

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What a Weasel Knows: Annie Dillard on How to Live

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Four New York City Art Shows to See Right Now

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The Propaganda Dilemma

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How to Protect Your Right to Culture

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Smithsonian Closes as Government Shutdown Enters Third Week

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Weeks After Fire, Red Hook Open Studios Returns Defiantly

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A Community Art Show for Palestine Confronts Authoritarianism

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Two Arrested for Splashing Paint on Columbus Artwork in Spain

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Tiny Art Show Repurposes a Disused Stairwell into a 1:6-Scale Gallery

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“The spread of dangerous infections that do not respond to antibiotics has...

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Judith Schaechter Explores Neuroaesthetics and the Nature of Beauty at the Museum of Craft and Design

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Experiment Across Disciplines With the MFA in Visual Art at WashU’s Sam Fox School

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A House of Dynamite

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“The MUTE Series is a collection of one-take microfilms that report on...

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Sinister Skies Set the Scene for Derelict Buildings in Lee Madgwick’s Surreal Paintings

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A short documentary about the groundbreaking sound design of Dune: Part Two,...

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Charming Flights of Fancy Fill Vanessa Gillings’ Imaginative Illustrations

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“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and...

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For the last-ever episode of his WTF podcast, Marc Maron interviewed Barack...

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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza

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Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal...

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