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January 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s

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Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups...

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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database. “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help...

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From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

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The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

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Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page Reimagine a Gallery as an Atmospheric Art Bar

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The Stories That Carried Me Through 2025

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Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse

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Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025

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Library fatigue

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J. R. R. Tolkien Admitted to Disliking Dune “With Some Intensity” (1966)

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Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations

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15 Landmark Museum Acquisitions in 2025

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The Imperfect Homework Machine

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Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War...

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One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt....

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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older

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Ultracold atoms observed climbing a quantum staircase. (Relatable: the upstairs of my...

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Underscore: Now Slightly Less Random

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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that...

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Our Favorite Stories of 2025

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The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword...

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The Iconic First Lady of NYC

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Good morning! Just wanted to let you all know that Rian Johnson...

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A Year of Elevating LGBTQ+ Artists

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Filthy Matters

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Warning labels

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How Far Back in History Can You Start to Understand English?

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How to Jumpstart Your Creative Process with William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Technique

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“It’s a bargain”

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A Look Back at the Art That Stayed With Us

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Building blocks of marketing

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How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s Reveries of Wonder

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My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05):...

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10 Artworks That Spoke Truth to Power in 2025

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Hyperallergic’s 20 Most Read Stories of 2025

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It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and...

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The Anthony Bourdain Reader

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Digging the soulful jazz + drum & bass energy of Chanpan. Hard...

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Clean Energy Is Still Winning. These 10 Charts Prove It. In March...

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Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense...

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Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so...

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Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

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The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge...

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Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping...

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A message from our editor-in-chief

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A Year in Blue and Green

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Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial

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