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Two Artists' Odyssey Up the Erie Canal

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Enrollment and learning

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How Leonardo da Vinci’s Procrastination Contributed to His Creativity

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Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers

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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

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

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Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall

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Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer...

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An Unprecedented Look at Renowned Photographer Peter Hujar’s New York in “Hujar:Contact”

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Playful Patterns Adorn Ashley Percival’s Collections of Creatures

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The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship

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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

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2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...

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The Artists Paddling 350 Miles Up the Erie Canal

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Minnesota State Fair Removes Anti-Trump Crop Art After Artist Was Harassed

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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court...

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How Blackwing Pencils Are Made

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What Happens When a Kid’s Robot Best Friend Dies?

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Inside the 3,000-Zine Library in a Texas Living Room

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Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small...

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Twelve Centuries of Documents Illuminate Humans’ Quest for Knowledge in ‘World Unfolding’

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Opportunities in September 2026

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This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On...

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Your Ultimate NYC Fall Art Guide

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How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry

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Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*...

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Watercolors by kelogsloops Traverse the Emotional Terrain of Love and Loss

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Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when...

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John Galliano Withdraws From Met Show

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More nothing now

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Going Up and Going In

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Apophenia cuts both ways

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How Phone Addiction Keeps You from Achieving a Productive “Flow State”

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Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career

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Joan Didion on Letting Go

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"Marina" Dares You to Laugh at Technology

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A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith

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Jennifer Higgie’s Empathetic Elegy for Richard Dadd

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Catherine Murphy Has Her Cake and Eats It Too

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Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?

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What in the Devil Was Peter Thiel Doing at the British Museum?

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Marka27 Superimposes Pop Culture, Graffiti, and Political Critique in Urgent Portraits

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Why We Like Things

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Revolutions

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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

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The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak

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Tim Curry (RIP) Breaks Down His Most Iconic Roles: Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island & More

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John Galliano Withdraws From Met Exhibition After Backlash Over Racist Comments

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Contradiction and the Unknown Permeate Isaiah Lee’s Imaginative Dollhouse Paintings

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