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Harry Houdini Died 100 Years Ago This Halloween: Was He Really Killed by a Punch to the Stomach?

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Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon

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20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

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The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...

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Hospitality in the mirror

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20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking

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Artists Take to the Streets Amid Massive Protests in France

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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This Is Class War

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Caveman leadership and the CDO*

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Portrait of a Paris Art Week on Fire

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How Art Can Deliver Justice for Refugees

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The War on Art Is Repeating Itself

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Kid Cudi to Write, Direct, and Star as Basquiat in New Biopic

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The Center Cannot Hold at the Toronto Biennial

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The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...

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Scientists Contest Dating of Van Gogh’s "The Starry Night"

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'Wildwood' Is the Longest Stop-Motion Animated Film Ever. Each Frame of the Movie Is a Marvel of Handcrafted World Building

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“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...

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A View From the Easel: Gerardo Rosales

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‘Street Photography Africa’ is a Colorful and Energetic Survey Across the Continent

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Skirball Cultural Center presents “The 1960s — A Generation on Fire: Judy Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles”

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How to Be Transformed When Things Fall Apart

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Open Thread #Potato

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Traction!

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Au Revoir, Art Basel Paris

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The relentless math of bandwagoning

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Watch Rome Rise, Fall, and Rise Again in a Three-Minute 3D Timelapse

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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

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Studio Museum Announces New Artists-in-Residence

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“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...

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When Does a Woman Artist Reach Her "Prime"?

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Louvre Among Major Paris Museums to Shutter During Saturday Protests

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The Flipbook of the Rings

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The hotlist

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Meet the Painter Adorning Phoebe Bridgers’s Guitars

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An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

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Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See

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Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s

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Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...

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Shuttering Early, Art Basel Paris Also Removes Public Sculptures

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Art Basel Paris Is Removing All Outdoor Sculptures

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The Cathedral of Learning Is Pittsburgh’s Secular Temple

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This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....

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The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards

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