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The Persimmon Tree at Stand Five

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A Lone Louisiana Lawyer’s Fight against Trump’s Deportations

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“It’s not for you”

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When Pianist Maria João Pires Prepared to Perform the Wrong Mozart Concerto, Then Recovered Miraculously

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“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World

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North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times...

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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

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Why Are We Paying for the Privilege of Rejection?

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The Internet According to Sex Workers and Cyberfeminists

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How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It...

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House Votes to Fund the Arts, Despite Trump Threats

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RIP MetroCard

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Montreal’s Ice Surfer

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Giving and Receiving: Memoirs of an Immigrant Curator and Philanthropist

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Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’...

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Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr...

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Develop Your Work and Aesthetic Philosophy at New York Studio School

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Wade into Slow-Motion Suspension and Anticipation in the Radiant Film ‘Divers’

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The America That Could Be

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Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy...

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‘Making the Invisible Visible’ Highlights an Ambitious Digitization Project at Harvard

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Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a...

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The Aldrich Names Artists for First-Ever Decennial

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Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players...

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Rep Your Love for Independent Arts Publishing

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New Museum in NYC to Reopen in March

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Meet the Oldest Rock in the West

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Miles Davis Emerged From Middle America to Become the ‘Picasso of Jazz’ and Taught Us All How to Be Cool

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A Vintage Watch Broke Auction Records. Then the Rumours Started.

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Palestinian Embroidery Today

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How to become a tree

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“Leave yourself an out”

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By All Measures

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Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More

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Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”

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Beatriz González, Colombian Painter of Collective Memory, Dies at 93

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“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to...

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Ms. Rachel Sells Artworks by Children From Gaza

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A Video Game Lets You Take Back Looted Artifacts

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An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision

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The Nightmares Beneath the Surface of "Dreamworld"

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Center of Gravity

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David Wojnarowicz in the Age of Surveillance

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Through Tender Paintings and Carvings, Hilda Palafox Revels in Care and Communion

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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small...

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Mitchell Johnson: Two San Francisco Exhibitions of Large-Scale Paintings

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The Contemporary Relevance of Palestinian Tatreez

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Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like...

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