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The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off: Rerouting the Tiber, Digging a Canal, and More

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Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972)

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How Not to Waste Your Life

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The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole

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It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem...

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

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San Antonio’s Centro de Artes Celebrates 10 Years with "Mercado/Material"

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Why Pageant Is Suddenly All the Rage

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Tammy Nguyen's New Opera Will Be the Coda to the Venice Biennale

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Tammy Nguyen Plumbs Nationhood and the Sea in New Opera

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Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...

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Welcome to the ‘Uncanny Valley,’ the Haas Brothers’ Fantastic and Cheeky Universe

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May Peace Prevail on Earth

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Who’s the Thief in Deana Lawson’s Photography?

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‘Radiant Geometries’ Illuminates Teachings and Technologies in the Indigenous Americas

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Red Hook Open Studios Rises From the Ashes

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“‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.”...

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Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...

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Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds

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Ann Toebbe’s Skewed Paintings Transform Architectural Spaces into Cherished Places

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Art Problems: Do I Need an Agent?

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Whoa, the Lion Nebula!

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John Berger in His Own Bruised Time

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The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting...

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We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.

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The Kids Who Identify as Animals

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Into the fire

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Roy Lichtenstein Was All Style

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Things people don’t say

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Why Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur & Other Hollywood Classics Still Look So Good

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Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

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NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies

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“If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...

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The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...

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Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...

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221 Camera Obscuras Fill Pneuhaus’ Immersive, Inflatable, Image-Capturing Installation

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NYC Artists Open Their Doors

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Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses

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“Cornell 7” Case Sparks Fury and Protests in Solidarity With Jane Doe

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Art Films We Look Forward to Watching at DOC NYC

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13 Art Films to See at DOC NYC

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Sara Flores Paints What the World Stands to Lose

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So Many Different Mes

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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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Roy Lichtenstein Has Lost His Luster

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Utah Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Nine Mile Canyon Construction Project

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ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...

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Karachi Biennale Cancels Fifth Edition Over “War Conditions”

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Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art

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Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...

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