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Leaving America

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He's Writing a New Musical About the Time the 'Mona Lisa' Vanished Without a Trace in 1911

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LACMA Got a Makeover

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The invention of the soul

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The second circle

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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

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Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

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The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

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Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention

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Hollywood’s World Map of California

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MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

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Art Movements: Dozens Laid Off at Artnet and Artsy

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Rawya El Chab Tends to the Wounds of Lebanon's Civil War

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The Unnameable Artists of the Canton Trade System

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In Surprising Twist, ADAA Art Fair Will Now Benefit the Whitney Museum

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William James on the Psychology of Habit

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LACMA’s New Building Invites You to Chart Your Own Path

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Required Reading

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Marvel at Manabu Kosaka’s Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects

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Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm...

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What Was the Very First Plant in the World?...

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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt

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The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail

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The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project Launches Online

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What It’s Like to Go Through Perimenopause and Menopause in Prison

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15 Artists Explore the Potentiality of Fabric and Fiber in ‘Textile Art Redefined’

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I mentioned this book in a previous post but it deserves...

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Fortress Yellowstone

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The People’s Clock: a Timepiece Made of People

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The Great American GLP-1 Experiment . In the last few...

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The California Town With Less Than 30 Residents Begging for Young People to Move In

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Evolution of Paris

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Talking Art With Rama Duwaji

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Join the dots

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The definitive study of seed oil and health

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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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