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The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes

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Banksy’s Latest Mural Is a Heartbreaking Christmastime Message

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200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour

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The Messy Family Drama of Ancient Egyptian Gods

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Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here. “Japanese customers...

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White House Renews Threats to Smithsonian Institution

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Underneath a Breaching Humpback Whale

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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student. “Kids say...

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British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program

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Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Artists Embrace an Affordable and Ubiquitous Material in ‘Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities’

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Runaway supermassive black hole? Did not know this could be a thing....

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After a Century, the Rockettes Are Still Kicking Their Way Into American Hearts

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A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk)....

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A ‘Hybrid Habitat’ By Guto Requena Gives New Meaning to ‘Urban Jungle’ in São Paolo

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What Pompeii Looked Like Hours Before Its Destruction: A Reconstruction

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‘Surreal Salon 18,’ Curated by Swoon, to Open at Baton Rouge Gallery with 60+ Artists

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Voices of Russia

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A Letter to Mamdani

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The Last Good Thing

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Are doctors replaceable?

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The Spiderman inversion

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Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950

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Timing your overnight success

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If Birds Ran the World

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Best Art in Worst of Times

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“Use your best judgment”

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Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas

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“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and...

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Dear Zohran, Don’t Let Art Workers Down

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On reading Proust vs experiencing the world intermediated by screens (even when...

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If you want to see the future of clean energy, you have...

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Inkblot Books via the Public Domain Review. These pre-date use of the...

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Trump-Appointed NEA Chair Returns for Second Term

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“Victims of Communism” Monument Altered Over Reported Nazi Ties

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Medieval Psalms Were Not For Everyone

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“The Global Village Construction Set is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform...

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Abstract Paintings Confront Andean Weaving in Miguel Arzabe’s Dynamic Compositions

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Light Fantastic

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How a Nativity Scene Sent Europe Into a Tizzy

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A report from one of the competitors in a parallel parking championship....

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The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

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Savory Rice Krispies treats? “Savory chicken fat and fried onions push Rice...

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Anthony Theakston Sculpts a Spirited Flock of Bronze and Ceramic Birds

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In 2023, seismologists detected a “global hum” originating in Greenland that lasted...

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The World's Best Art in 2025

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Philosopher of pride

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Bottomless

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Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly Burning His House Down (1990)

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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