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If Fritz Lang’s Iconic Film Metropolis Had a Kraftwerk Soundtrack

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How Human Civilization Began

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Assyria is Far from Ancient in Esther Elia’s Characterizations of Contemporary ‘Diasporic Deities’

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Fernando Calvillo, Beloved Fixture of Oklahoma's Art Community, Dies in Train Crash in Spain

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Exhibition as Living Archive: the 1950s Baghdad Modern Art Group in the UAE Today

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Guadalupe Rosales’s Portable Archive of East LA

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Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...

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The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Search for Truth, and the Ideal Environment for Breakthroughs

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“Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a...

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The Indian Pavilion in Venice Asks: What Is Home?

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What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?

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As Politicians Break Promises, This Public Artwork Keeps Them

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Leila Reichert Appointed as Senior Curator at Weisman Art Museum

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Layli Long Soldier’s Quilted Poetry

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Jeremy Shaw Dances With the Divine

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Americans Place “I Voted” Stickers on Memorials to ICE Victims

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The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was...

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Haunted Ride on the 3 Train

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In an Updated Edition, Photographer Ivan McClellan Returns to Black Rodeo Culture

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The Year Math Changed Forever

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10 Years of Kottke.org Membership

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I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body

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Collins Obijiaku’s Tender Portraits Conjure Memories and Community

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Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...

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Film Meets Art

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Your Midterm Guide to Voting for the Arts

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Believing and thinking

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The emotions of voting

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The San Francisco Public Library Launches a Free Online Archive with 80,000+ Historical Images & Documents to Explore & Download

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Have I Befriended a Murderer?

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Soviet Animations of Winnie the Pooh, Created by the Innovative Animator Fyodor Khitruk

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

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The Art of Advancing with Age: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

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A Midterm Election Guide for Artists and Arts Workers

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10 Art Books to Curl Up With This November

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Love in the Time of Dinosaurs

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Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...

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Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...

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Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice

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Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...

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10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This November

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Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It’s Staring Into ‘the Void’

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“The Man I Love” Wants Us to Do More Than Mourn

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French Galleries Accuse Art Basel Paris of "Disrespect, Even Contempt"

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Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...

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Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Moving Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a Lifetime of Sorrow in the Making

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How Former Theater Kid James Talarico Stands Up for the Arts in Texas

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Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...

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Ana Mendieta's Lasting Imprint on Art

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