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The Best April Fools’ Jokes in the Art World This Year

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Remembering Glen Baxter, Pat Steir, Melvin Edwards

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Scientists have genetically engineered tobacco plants to...

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On Stewart Brand’s Maintenance: Of Everything

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A Palestinian-American Photographer’s Intimate Gaze

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Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note...

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The Pioneering Coffee House Serving Since 1645 ....

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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life.

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After two years off, Tom Scott is back with a new...

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Gillian Welch: This Land is Her Land

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Street Artists Take On Monumental Infrastructure in ‘Impossible’ Photos

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How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

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“All of Humanity’s Problems Stem From Marc Andreessen’s Inability to Sit Quietly in a Room Alone”

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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives

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The Three Elements of the Good Life

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The California Novel No One Can Find

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Stitch Your Favorite Destinations with Jake Henzler’s ‘Knit the City’

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The Medici’s lost garden of wonders

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51% of Men Say Mona Lisa "Should Smile More"

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring R. O. Kwon

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A persistent sense of being correctly located in time

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Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)

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Louvre Museum to Install Locks on Doors After Heist

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Spirit Halloween to Temporarily Take Over Kennedy Center

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Woman With Her Back to the Viewer in Gallery Photos Speaks Out

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New Mysterious Art Fair “The Island” Seeks the Opposite of Buzz

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List of Failed Business Ideas Found Beneath Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”

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Survey Finds 51% of Men Think Mona Lisa “Should Smile More"

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Philadelphia Museum of Art Rebrands Again as "PhArt"

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5 Art Job Openings That Are Definitely Not Exploitative

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Curator’s Shoes Steal the Show at MoMA Reception

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Ancient Statues at The Met to Receive Patrons' Noses

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JD Vance Unveils Incel Statue at the White House

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Nothing Works in Trump’s America — Except Racism ....

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The 2026 issue of the HTML Review , “an annual...

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Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type...

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Anoushka Mirchandani Conjures Ancient Mythological Nature Spirits in Vibrant Oil Paintings

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Frida, Diego, and Raphael

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“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry...

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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout

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Beyond a ‘Reasonable Doubt’

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The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

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Tonika Lewis Johnson: Segregation and How to Disrupt It

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For the latest episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman...

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Endgame for the Open Web , brought on by LLM bots,...

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NASA’s LRO found a new crater on the Moon...

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The US Is the Last Big Petrostate

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Hassan Took a Bike Ride. Now He’s One of the Thousands Missing in Gaza

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Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds

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Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline:...

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