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“I’ve got your back”

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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks

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Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

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How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

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The Darkness of Greuze’s Doe-Eyed Children

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Mount Rushmore Is Not My Monument

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Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Can Soon Be Yours

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100 Assignments From Nayland Blake

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Living in ghost cities

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Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud. “The other reason I want to...

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Heidi Klum always brings it for Halloween and this year she dressed...

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The other kind of magic

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Alison Knowles, the First Woman of Fluxus, Dies at 92

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Artists Call to Boycott Maxxi Museum Over Alleged Israel Ties

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How Not to Waste Your Life

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Taipei Biennial 2025 Explores Yearning as Unyielding Drive

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Jackie Ferrara Lived and Died on Her Own Terms

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Met Museum Sued Over Van Gogh Allegedly Looted by Nazis

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How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments

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Reckoning With Belonging in Britain

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62 Modern Tree Houses Climb to Architectural Heights

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This Designer Created Iconic Costumes for 'Bride of Frankenstein' and Other Classic Monster Movies. Her Mysterious Life Ended Tragically

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Close-Up Photographer of the Year Celebrates Minuscule Marvels and Delicate Details

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Power and flesh

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Scams at scale

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Celebrate Halloween with Michael Jackson’s Horrifically Entertaining “Thriller” Music Video—and a Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price

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I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later:...

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Required Reading

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Art Movements: Rothko, Matthew Wong, a Historic Restitution

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Night at the Biennial

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The Best Costumes From Hyperallergic’s Halloween Party

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Thieves Rob 1,000 Collection Items From California Museum

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Vibrant Beaded Compositions by Renée Condo Convey the Mi’gmaq Spirit of Empathy

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Toshiko Takaezu’s Clay Vessels Will Fill You With Awe

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What I Saw at the Movies

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A View From the Easel

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LACMA Workers Move to Unionize

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Tiznando el País: Museums and Communities Rewriting the History of Afro-Descendant Art in Puerto Rico

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Grow Your Practice With Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA in Studio Art

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An Optimistic Quest in Apocalyptic Times

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Keira Knightley: ‘I Went Mad. I Just Managed to Hide It’

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A Stop-Motion Fairytale and Oracle Deck by Swoon Conjure an Artist’s Magic

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059 motorway cycle XII: Dublin

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The world without hegemony

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A little ahead (vs. a little behind)

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When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919)

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Roger Waters Reflects on the Haunting Psychological Decline of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett

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Proof of life! I’m writing a longer post about my time in...

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