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Happy Public Domain Day to All Who Celebrate! You Can Now Use Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'The Maltese Falcon' for Free

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

Remembering the Art Restorer Who Lifted Our Spirits

Balthazar, 1997

Which kind of ‘enough’?

The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice

How “Heated Rivalry” Sparked Thirst, Hope, and Memes

Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

Bad Bunny Scolded for Touching Ancient Art at Mexican Museum

A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

Cecilia Giménez, Whose Botched Restoration Became an Icon, Dies at 94

Cecilia Giménez, Patron Saint of Bad Restorations, Dies at 94

Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Rosana Paulino

Listen to the Cassandras

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

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

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

Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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

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

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

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

The Stories That Carried Me Through 2025

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

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

Library fatigue

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

Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations

15 Landmark Museum Acquisitions in 2025

The Imperfect Homework Machine

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

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

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

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

Underscore: Now Slightly Less Random

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

Our Favorite Stories of 2025

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

The Iconic First Lady of NYC

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

A Year of Elevating LGBTQ+ Artists

Filthy Matters

Warning labels

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

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

“It’s a bargain”

A Look Back at the Art That Stayed With Us

Building blocks of marketing

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

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