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The Mystery Of The Samurai In Venice

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Man Steals Sword From Joan of Arc Statue in Paris

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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This January

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Traditional Indian Basketweaving Techniques Translate into Contemporary Installations

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A Year of Clean Energy Milestones. “Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made...

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Saved by Wonder: The Ziegler Polar Expedition and the Aurora Borealis

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When Isolation Is Your Only Companion

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Apply for Rent-Free Studio Space in Brooklyn Through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program

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A number of studies show that various vaccines (shingles, RSV, flu) are...

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10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This January

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Beyond a resolution

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Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross...

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What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies

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Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud

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Luftwerk Transforms Paint and Aluminum into Radiant Explorations of Sunlight

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M. Gessen on the new world order the Trump regime seems eager...

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The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War....

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We Are the Bad Guys. “What do we call it when a...

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Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, an expert in international law, about the...

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Outside center

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Museums Must Step Up in 2026

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The erotic poems of Bilitis

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What you don’t know

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Discover Ichi-go Ichi‑e, the Japanese Art of Savoring Every Moment

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J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

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More like itself

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Evergreen: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We...

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Hew Locke’s Constant Motion

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The paradox of ‘on trend’

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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

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Variety has a list of 50 great movies from 2025 that are...

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What Hew Locke Carries

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In 2026, Democracy Needs Museums

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Investigating a possible Daft Punk Easter egg: is the tempo of Harder,...

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David Wojnarowicz’s Lessons in the Age of Surveillance

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Trump Sells Off Jesus Painting for $2.75M at NYE Party

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360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNG’s...

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Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

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Opportunities in January 2026

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Apply for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s 2027 Arts/Industry Residency

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Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! “Thermochauvinism is the (often...

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It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point

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Terry Facey Painstakingly Replicates a 17th-Century Marquetry Table at 1:8 Scale

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Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain...

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“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

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NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

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Cover Song for the Second Law: A Poem for Beginnings

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Curling Up in a Cozy Art Studio

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Searching for Seamus Heaney

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