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The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China. “The journey...

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The Amazon Has Been This Peruvian Artist’s Home, Inspiration and Palette. Now the World Is Her Gallery

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Cold Weather and Apples Were Two Things the American Colonies Had. Industrious Scottish Immigrants Turned Them Into a Favorite Spirit

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A Recipe Engraved on a Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed and Keep Part of Them Alive

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Life on Display: A Reading List on Museums

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Dreams of a Maoist India

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The writer’s room

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When a Salvador Dalí Sketch Was Stolen from Rikers Island Prison (2003)

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How Thieves Stole Priceless Jewels at the Louvre in 8 Minutes

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Ira Glass’s Subway Take is genuinely shocking: “Every podcast is better at...

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Come See Me in the Good Light

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My First Months in Cyberspace

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Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966)

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The Goodest Boys of NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade

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Cardiography

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Sharon Lockhart’s Beguiling Tableaus of Children in Nature

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Art in Odd Places Resists by Doing “Nothing”

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Why the Right Can’t Stand the “No Kings” Aesthetic

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The Beauty in the IRL

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10 Art Books to Read This Month

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Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Reveals the Vastly Unseen

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Arroz Imperial and the Taste Of Regret

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Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My...

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MCA Chicago Presents the US Debut of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

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Through Fractured Forms, Kat Kristof Renders the Architecture of the Mind

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What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier

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Sumo Tourists in London

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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750,000 Readers in the UK (2003)

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Step Into Creativity: The Other Art Fair Brooklyn Returns With Bold New Experiences

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Anil Dash on The Majority AI View. “Stop being so goddamn creepy...

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Nengiren’s Embroidered Little Woman

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I’d never heard of this before: tearoom ambient, a style of music...

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Antique Writing Desks Converge with African Masks in Sonia E. Barrett’s Sculptures

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Apple TV to air F1 races in the US for the next...

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How the Hardy Boys Book Series Cracked the Case of Getting Kids Hooked on Reading

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Children of war

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Hidden in plain sight

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Foggy mirror

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The First Electric Guitar: Behold the 1931 “Frying Pan”

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Photos of the No Kings protests & rallies that happened in big...

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Celebrating the Science of Quilts

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How Takako Yamaguchi Subverts the Seascape

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Jane Lombard Looks Back at 30 Years of Art and Politics

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The Arch of Trump’s Triumph and Downfall

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Perfect Mind: The Gnostic Field Guide to Wholeness and Hearing the Voice of Truth

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Louvre Museum Closed After Dramatic Daylight Heist

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Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue

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It’s not a silly thing to do

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Consumer Reports: Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead. “More...

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More than 170 *US citizens* have been detained and held (and “dragged,...

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