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Tale of a Riderless Horse

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“I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing...

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Hans Holbein Painted the Human

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This Ping Pong Robot Can Beat Elite Human Players

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My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984

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I had somehow missed (or forgotten) that Greta Gerwig is...

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Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong

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Can an Artwork Have Personhood?

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Historic $116M Gift Endows Lending Program at National Gallery of Art

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A group of “unauthorized users” have...

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Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.)

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The International Center of Photography Presents Photobook Fest

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“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”

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Wow, this interview! “I’ve never had an...

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“In a new book called “Israel: What Went Wrong?,”...

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Can the V&A’s New Museum Fulfill Its Democratic Promise?

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Lessons from a 1969 documentary on Nazi-occupied France...

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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

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A new short story from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation,...

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Finally! The Trailer for the Coyote vs. ACME Movie.

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Well, here it is at last: the new Boards of Canada album...

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Jamelle Bouie on the truly unprecedented open corruption...

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How to Begin

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Butterfly (Papillon)

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Roses and Thorns of Greater New York

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara

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The banal djinni

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Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts

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“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More

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Is the best literary film adaptation of the last 50...

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What We Loved (And Didn’t) in “Greater New York”

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The Great Ozempic Experiment

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A French corporation was recently found criminally...

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A Poetic Tribute to Ona Judge Is Coming to Philadelphia

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How One Cooperative Champions the Quechua Weavers of Peru’s Sacred Valley

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Barbara Chase-Riboud Speaks Out on Declining US Biennale Pavilion

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Highlights and Hidden Gems at Dumbo Open Studios

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Joan Semmel & Rama Duwaji

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The Leaf Sheep Slug: The Animal That Eats Sunshine

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Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re...

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A Blockbuster Take on Ovid’s “Metamorphosis”

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The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock . “This clock...

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A Place for Intimacy: bell hooks on Language and Desire

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The Woman Who Saved Native Song

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Criterion x Every Frame a Painting: The Edges of Wuxia

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Teaser Trailer for Silo Season Three

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Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine :...

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How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

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“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic...

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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary...

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