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Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...

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De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert

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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

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25 Years of iPod Brain

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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

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What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live

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TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...

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Johan Siggesson’s Striking Portraits of ‘Big Tuskers’ in Kenya

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The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...

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TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...

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Rediscover a Rembrandt After More than Six Decades in Hiding

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Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)

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Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...

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The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity

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Exploratorium

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Whitney Biennial Sneak Peek

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The Uncanny Valley

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The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit

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Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

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First Impressions From the 2026 Whitney Biennial

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Rendered in Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut’s Warriors March Toward Belonging

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Magdalena Abakanowicz Sculpted the Collective Body

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LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...

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70 Shows to See in NYC This Spring

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Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?

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A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive: ‘The Dark Half’

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The Man Who Broke Into Jail

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“ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...

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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

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Everyday Traces of NYC’s SWANA Diaspora

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HyperCard Changed Everything

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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...

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Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet

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Masayoshi Matsumoto Meticulously Transforms Balloons into Expressive Critters

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Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...

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Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

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New Rembrandt Painting Discovered

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Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?

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‘Architectural Fantasies’ Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

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Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning

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Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship

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Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...

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“ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...

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Poisonous Objects

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Art Spring in NYC

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The insurance catastrophe

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A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish

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The gap between “I” and “no one”

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