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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More

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Turfin’ Safari

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Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...

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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Artist Who Confronted Injustice, Dies at 46

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Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection

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The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026

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The Christophers

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Gagosian to Debut New Gallery With Duchamp’s “Readymades”

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Trump Plays Christ and Gets the Wound Wrong

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We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...

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Cinga Samson Conjures Mystery and the Sublime in Large-Scale Oil Paintings

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This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....

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The Crystal Skull

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Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

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Christopher Hitchens on Mortality

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Steve DiBenedetto’s Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

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Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...

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Jeremy Frey: The Generational Impact of a New Artistic Path

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The Car-Crash Conspiracy

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Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...

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Ai Weiwei and the Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...

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Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...

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Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...

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I am Sámi

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What Is a "Post-Duchamp" Art World?

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The sterilisation-seekers

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Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”

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Avoiding the purity loop

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Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More

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How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Settling

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How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust

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Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity

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The Eternal Lyric of Love and Loss: “Goodnight Moon” Author Margaret Wise Brown’s Little-Known Poems for the Tragic Love of Her Life

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

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Trump's Clash of Civilizations

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“Even”

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Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding

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The Work of Happiness: May Sarton’s Stunning Poem About Being at Home in Yourself

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From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!

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The Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Has Taken Off Its Training Wheels

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Marcel Duchamp Was the Messenger of History

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The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...

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Process Is the Point at IFPDA Print Fair

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Who Do Chicago’s Art Fairs Serve?

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Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...

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