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Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

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Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America

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Divers

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The South African Pavilion Is Betraying Its Own History

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Vanderbilt University Buys California College of the Arts, Raising Questions

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Black Artists Create New Universes in “Unbound”

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...

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Olive Oil Sculptures

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How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Music and Life

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Reports of Artists Killed by Iranian Regime Draw Outrage and Grief

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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”

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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...

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Ana Mendieta’s Injured Earth

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Remembering Beatriz González, Arnulf Rainer, and Franco Vaccari

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Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet’s Nostalgically Peculiar Canvases

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Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president...

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Grow as an Artist Without Pressing Pause: SVA’s Online MFA Art Practice

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Seasoning a Kid

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Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this...

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Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud...

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Uncanny Personalities Appear from Nature in Malene Hartmann Rasmussen’s Ceramics

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Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time (bc of...

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United States Artists Awards $50K Grants to 50 Fellows

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Currently listening to this Thai house mix from Meltmode, played from a...

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Lunchtime

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Father’s letters

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Lessons for Artists From Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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