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How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo

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Open Thread for August 2026

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Former Philly UArts Building to Become Affordable Housing for Artists

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NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...

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Six Films on Art and Resistance at BlackStar Film Festival

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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

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The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

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A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...

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‘Turn the Volume Up!’ Highlights the History of Speaking Out for Change in America

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A Picasso Vanished in 1961. The Guggenheim Now Wants It Back

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Supersonic Trebuchet

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Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...

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The Ferry Boat Children

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Long-Misattributed Clara Peeters Still Life Resurfaces After Decades in Storage

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“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...

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Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings

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G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....

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Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...

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The Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalists Highlight the Sorrowful and Sublime

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When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)

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Whose Babies Are These?

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Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter

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The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

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Where the earth meets the sky

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A New Chapter for Zeitz MOCAA

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Mecca and the mall

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Here’s the Scoop: A Reading List on Ice Cream

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Beating yourself up

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One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)

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Jennifer Latour Preserves Ephemeral Beauty in Her Otherworldly Botanical Assemblages

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The Art of the Copyist

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SF Camerawork, Photo Champion for Five Decades, Abruptly Announces Closure

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Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...

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“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media

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The Living World Feels Dead at the Hammer

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I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...

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Elvira Dyangani Ose to Succeed Koyo Kouoh at Zeitz MOCAA

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Remembering Christian Bernard, Al Gury, and Hermione Carline

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Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...

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Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Suzanne Jongmans Recycles Everyday Materials for Elegant Renaissance-Style Portraits

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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

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Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured

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A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

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The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy: Epicureanism

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Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

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Parting Shot

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Meet This Year’s Joan Mitchell Fellows

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Bouncy brothers

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