CULTURE
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A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House
Some remember the nineteen-nineties in America as the second coming of the nineteen-fifties. Whatever holes one can poke in that…
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How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937
Before his fateful entry into politics, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist. Even to the most neutral imaginable observer,…
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The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9”
As of this writing, the Beatles’ “Revolution 9″ has more than 13,800,000 plays on Spotify. This has no doubt generated…
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What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History
Diego Velázquez painted Las Meninas almost 370 years ago, and it’s been under scrutiny ever since. If the public’s appetite to…
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How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference
Image by Jernej Furman, via Wikimedia Commons It would be difficult to imagine the last couple of years without artificial…
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The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes
Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place is simply too…
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Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A
Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture…
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Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More
At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968. That’s how I…
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Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa
H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has terrified and fascinated readers and writers for decades since its 1898 publication and…
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Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More
It’s Friday, which means that tonight, many of us will sit down to watch a movie with our family, our…
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