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Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like...

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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

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Stephen and David’s toy cupboard

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Lessons From a Children’s Art Teacher

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The Olympics Are Ditching PFAS Waxes—and the ‘Ridiculous’ Speed They Gave Skiers

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Subverting hell

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Tip for tap

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How This Skyscraper Ruined Paris, and Why They’re Now Trying to Make It Invisible

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Long Live the Rom-Com

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Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments

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Why You

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Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

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Amy Sherald’s Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art

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Teaching Children Taught Me How to Be an Artist

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Recently Discovered: an NYC Underground Railroad Stop

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Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89

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Art Problems: Should I Sell My Work to People Whose Politics I Hate?

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AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions ....

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Along the Mississippi River, ‘Water | Craft’ Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology

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Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott

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Debra Wimpfheimer Named Executive Director of Queens Museum

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Zoning Out Is Good For You

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In case you didn’t realize, ICE is still...

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Fontemon is the world’s first video game in a...

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Minimal Shapes Layer into Dynamic, Abstracted Murals by James Reka

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The GOP goal of destroying the post office is coming...

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Phantom Pains

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Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes’ Sculptures

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To the Old Man in the Cowboy Costume

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Some Site Goings-On

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A Surprisingly Enjoyable Show About Critical Theory

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Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

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Everyone’s living a life you know nothing about ....

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Naoto Nakagawa 2026 Is on View at KAPOW

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“We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals...

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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A recommendation for a recent episode of the Heavyweight...

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Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

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TikTok Is Obsessed With Talking Parrots. It’s Fueling a Global Black Market.

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Wildlife Attacks and Strange Animal Behavior—Fake Images Spark Conservation Concerns

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Desi oon

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Waiting for Spring in the Bay Area

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The Myth of the Police State

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Time well spent

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How Brunelleschi Engineered Florence’s Iconic Dome

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Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose

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Painted by Hand, a Stop-Motion Film Eulogizes a Lost Childhood Home

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Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

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10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Spring

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