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The art of museum dioramas

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Martin Luther King Jr. in Art and Memory

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Our unfinished republics

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On the wall

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How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”

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What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol

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Elif Shafak on the Three Roots of Hate and How to Be a Star Student of Life

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Fake news and trust

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Et Tu, South Africa?

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The sorting

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John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life

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Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC

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40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural

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I Rewatch “Gilmore Girls” to Remember my Stepfather

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San Francisco's Tech Billionaires Don't Care About Your Art School

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A Visualization of the Evolution of Paris, 300 BCE to 2025

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The rate at which the universe is expanding differs depending on how...

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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.

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What Will Retirement Bring? An Animated Film for Those Dreaming of Work-Free Days

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The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’. “If Chalamet has found, in...

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What to See During San Francisco Art Week

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How Russia’s Children Got So Violent. “There is no positive ideology for...

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Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized

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This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota....

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Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

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Leafy Greens and Loaves of Bread Transform into Playful Ceramics by Eléonore Joulin

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Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

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Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around...

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At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

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A Very 2026 Art Reading List

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The shape of time

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The squeeze

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

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15 Art Books We're Excited to Read in 2026

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Art Movements: Pineapples, Coconuts, and More Art Awards

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Required Reading

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Meet the Artist in El Salvador’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion

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By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...

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In ‘Funeral for a Tree,’ Steve Parker Etches Bird Song into Playable Oak Records

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Smithsonian Complies With Trump’s Documents Request

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Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....

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Where the Prairie Still Remains

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A View From the Easel

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Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

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The Florentine Codex

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No Harm

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Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

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From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

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A Short Documentary Celebrates the Community that Rallied Around ‘Rick on the Roof’

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