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How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line

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The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

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A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic...

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From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert ....

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

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Who Is Black Comedy For?

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Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a...

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Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026...

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Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?

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Vintage Pan-Am Luggage Tags

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Fun trompe-l’œil graph paper drawings .

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NEVERCREW Explores Our Tenuous Relationship with Nature in Huge Murals

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Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments ....

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The Testaments TV Series

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Curiosity Is No Solo Act

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Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz ....

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10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More

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The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on...

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In the Studio With Rama Duwaji

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Masha Foya’s Airy Illustrations Embrace the Universality of Emotions

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The Bennett Prize Opens Fifth Call for Entries

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It’s Happening: More Signs of Life From Boards of Canada

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“Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” Posters Emerge Across NYC

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Tutto Boetti 1966–1993

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Inside a Black Panther Family Album

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné

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‘They’re Gonna Make Me Cry’: I Competed at a Speed Puzzling Championship

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Remembering Pearl Fryar, Siri Aurdal, and Frank Stack

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Impromptu

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Michaelina Wautier’s Overdue Triumph

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi

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What do you own?

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Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back

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Enchantment and the Courage of Joy: René Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism

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Mexican Artist Alleges Plagiarism of Femicide Project

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If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations...

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These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

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Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings

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Is This Blue: Chilean Philosophers Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on Love and How We Know the World

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This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...

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“ The internet known within China is a very...

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Art Problems: Do I Need to Go to Art Fairs?

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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

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Nikyle Begay Resurrects Century-Old Diné Weavings

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Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings

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LR Vandy’s Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation

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On the network effect of the weekend : “The...

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Beloved CUNY Social Practice Art Program to Shut Down

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Politics After Literacy

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