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Becoming Caravaggio

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AI ads are neither

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How the Incas Performed Skull Surgery More Successfully Than U.S. Civil War Doctors

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The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

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Drawn to Synbols, Michael McGrath Conjures Uncanny Narratives

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Art Movements: The Brooklyn Museum's New Top Contemporary Art Curator

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Michelle Segre’s Impermanent Worlds

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Lays Off 33 Workers

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Required Reading

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Lisa Funderburke Tapped to Lead Newark Museum of Art

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This guy built an autonomous flying umbrella (powered by drones) that automagically...

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Spurious Correlations

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Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

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Minnesota community leaders are calling for an “ICE Out” general strike and...

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The Moment Caravaggio Became Caravaggio

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A huge collection of graphic design archives and resources, like The People’s...

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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season

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“There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to...

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February 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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What I Learned on My First Cruise

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A View From the Easel

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Prettifying Graffiti

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How to Be More Alive: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent on Breaking the Trance of Near-living

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Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception

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“AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of cause for concern,...

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Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know...

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Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal in America. What...

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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education. “We have a very focused and...

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Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was):...

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Inside, the valley sings

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Will Trump Ruin the Art Market?

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Is inherited wealth bad?

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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

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Love Anyway

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Skepticism, surprise and resistance

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Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis”

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When Hannibal Lecter Took Over

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The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change

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Why Jerry Seinfeld Lives by the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

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Moving Multimedia Collages by Rich Wells Playfully Remember Places and Landscapes

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How Trump Is Jeopardizing the US Art Market

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Smithsonian to Return Three Looted Bronzes to Indian Government

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Another NFT Platform Bites the Dust

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Michelangelo and Titian’s Rivalry That May Never Have Been

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The Unexpected Epiphanies of Watching 57 Movies With my Sleeping Newborn

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Remembering John H. Beyer, Marian Goodman, and Chung Sang-hwa

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Vintage Tourist Maps of Japan

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