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How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist

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15 Art Books for Your Fall Reading List

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The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

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Trump to Break Ground on “Triumphal Arch” Before Federal Approval

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In ‘An American Fiction,’ Ronald Jackson Casts an Imagined Screenplay

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LA’s Lucas Museum Displays “Narrative Art” for the Few, Not the People

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A View From the Easel

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Go Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity

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Nordic Textile Takeover: The Cold Stitch

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‘Inploration’ Highlights Dozens of Artists Who Explore Space to Understand Earth

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The “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog

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Ann Patchett and Crying at The Met

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Upend the trickle-down

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An end to fully open networks

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Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult

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The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility

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Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

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Mildred Howard Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award

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Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work

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ICE Seizes 22,000 Antiquities in Florida

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China Withdraws from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of Taiwan’s Inclusion

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Denizens of a Crowded City Populate Erin Milez’s Dense Paintings

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Autumnal Open Thread

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40 Filmmakers in 25 Countries Team Up for an Ode to Nature Shot Entirely on Super 8 Cameras

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In “Whistler,” Ann Patchett Tackles Loss and Art

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Going Home with Wendell Berry

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10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This September

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75,000 Patterned Paper Kites Cascade in Jacob Hashimoto’s Largest-Ever Installation

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Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...

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The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal

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Trump Somehow Mad at Stick Figure

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson

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Neuroqueering on the lawn

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What it is like to be a dog?

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Wes Anderson Picks Nine of His Favorite Criterion Films

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Discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s Personal Book Cover Designs for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

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The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

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Venice Biennale President Defends Russia Inclusion in New Interview

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Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest

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Remembering Geles Cabrera, Helch, and Jay Maisel

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Hans Op de Beeck Taps into Memory, Time, and Enigma in ‘Vanishing Point’

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How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love

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Israel's Smotrich Calls to Destroy 40 Palestinian Memorials in West Bank

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The Missing Colors of Black American Pigment-Making

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Critics Slam “Petty” Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture From Kennedy Center

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The 17 Minutes That Changed America

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Avian Beauties and Rarities Top the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

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NYC Exhibition Celebrates Snoopy's Enduring Influence on Art and Fashion

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