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The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life

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The Art Crossword: Art Deco Edition

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medicine and Personal Health as a Political Act

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Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

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Art, Truth, and the Work Ahead

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Becoming a Centenarian

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1981 time machine

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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More

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Celebrate Public Domain Day with Betty Boop and Piet Mondrian

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Fred Wilson Reflects Our World in Black and White

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‘Modern Japanese Printmakers’ Celebrates Vibrant Mid-20th-Century Innovation

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Kottke Wrapped 2025

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Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

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Happy Public Domain Day to All Who Celebrate! You Can Now Use Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'The Maltese Falcon' for Free

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Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

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Remembering the Art Restorer Who Lifted Our Spirits

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Balthazar, 1997

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Which kind of ‘enough’?

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The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice

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How “Heated Rivalry” Sparked Thirst, Hope, and Memes

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Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

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Bad Bunny Scolded for Touching Ancient Art at Mexican Museum

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A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

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Cecilia Giménez, Whose Botched Restoration Became an Icon, Dies at 94

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Cecilia Giménez, Patron Saint of Bad Restorations, Dies at 94

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Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Rosana Paulino

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Listen to the Cassandras

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

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We’ve Been at the Tapestry Studio Since the 90s

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Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups...

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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database. “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help...

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From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

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The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

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Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page Reimagine a Gallery as an Atmospheric Art Bar

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The Stories That Carried Me Through 2025

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Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse

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Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025

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Library fatigue

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J. R. R. Tolkien Admitted to Disliking Dune “With Some Intensity” (1966)

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Brian Eno’s Book & Music Recommendations

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15 Landmark Museum Acquisitions in 2025

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The Imperfect Homework Machine

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Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War...

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One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt....

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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on While Letting Go: 10 Cultural Icons on the Art of Growing Older

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Ultracold atoms observed climbing a quantum staircase. (Relatable: the upstairs of my...

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