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Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life

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How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living

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Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva

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Live From the Lavender Lake

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I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...

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Dear Art World, We Can Tell When You’re Using AI

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Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?

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Bathing With the Nymphs

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New book from James Gleick about the history of the...

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Sunset Park, Where You Can Still Get an Artist Studio for Under $600

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V&A Museum Staff Set to Strike Across All Four London Sites

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‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago

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“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...

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The MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus Surveillance

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The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games

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Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...

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The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention

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How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself

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The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence

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Art Basel Paris Undergoes Lockdown Ahead of Opening

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To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York

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Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...

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Applications Open for the MFA in Studio Art at Maine College of Art & Design

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Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut

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How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...

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Death by a Thousand Dams

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven

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Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre

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How intuitions work

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Thieves’ cant slang

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Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)

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Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great

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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

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Art Books on Needles and Threads

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NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...

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Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum

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Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...

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Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30

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Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown

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David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t

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Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’

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A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator

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A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...

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Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants

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Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...

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Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams

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Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure

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