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Mamdani Votes Early at The Met. What Other NYC Museums Are Polling Sites?

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Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...

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Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia

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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.

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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

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John Dilg’s Down-to-Earth Reverence

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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...

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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

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Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work

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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

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The Artist Who Dined Among Lions

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Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...

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Scott Kahn Invokes Dreams and Liminality in Atmospheric Landscape Paintings

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This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...

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Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

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Wish You Were Here! Rose Sanderson’s Witty Postcards Conjure a Strange Reality

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Benchma(r)king

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How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...

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Vocal Accords

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Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti

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How to build real peace

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From Paris, In Solidarity

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Is our attitude up to us?

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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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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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