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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

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Art Movements: MoMA PS1 Reveals Greater New York Curators

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Required Reading

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Monuments Collapses American History on Itself

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Idle Things

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Eric Adams and Mamdani Clash Over NYC Art Garden

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The Canary in the Turbine Hall

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Barkley L. Hendricks’s Studio Was a Wonderland of Inspiration

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Smithsonian to Reopen After Longest Government Shutdown in US History

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A View From the Easel

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Shape the Future of Your Practice Through the MFA in Studio Art at the University of Arkansas

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Mitchell Johnson: Paintings from North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Morocco (Selected Work 1979-2025)

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Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India

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Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)

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70+ Artists Transform Matchboxes for Joy Machine’s ‘General Strike’

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After 230 years, the US Mint has ended production of new pennies....

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Glass Flora and Fauna Flutter in the Delicate Work of Kate Clements

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The art of rebellion: Justine Kurland’s utopian photography

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The deepest South

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Subversive Botanicals in Miami’s Art Underground

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Stuck happens

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How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards

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Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)

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The Northern Lights Put on a Show. “A powerful geomagnetic storm brought...

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Put wings on your car. “We call it a private jet for...

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Recently discovered 55-million-year-old crocodile eggshells perhaps belong to “drop crocs”, a species...

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One-Third of US Museums Feel the Pain of Trump’s Grant Cuts

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Remembering Erik Bulatov, Kazuki Motoyama, and Ken Parker

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Prankster With a Cause Sneaks AI Artwork Into UK Museum

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More women are riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes, in violation...

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We’re All Pink on the Inside

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Pyaari Azaadi’s Epic Mission to Mend the World

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The Art World Loves to Talk Shit

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Anton Kusters’ Photos of the Yakuza

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Life and Death at the County Fair

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A group of archaeologists has proposed “applying a model of how humans...

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Why the Spirit of WWE Legend Eddie Guerrero Lives On

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UCLA’s MFA in Media Arts Encourages Bold Experimentation

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Against the Pyramids of Giza, Vhils’ Etched Portraits Are Monuments of the Everyday

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“The reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that it’s more...

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22 Thanksgiving Main Dishes That Are Better Than Turkey. I’ve been trying...

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Just as You Feared — Life in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. “Breakfast...

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Death by Duxelles

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Operation Space Station

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Ying Ang Zeroes In on the Fleshy Underbellies of Fungi in ‘Fruiting Bodies’

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Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists. “Literary Hub caught up with...

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‘Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.’

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Fantasy Racism

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The other side of the mountain

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