It is commonplace to allege that not only is the art and media we produce no better than that of the near or far past, but that it is actually worse. These arguments are false.
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The oldest company in the world is a Japanese temple repair group, with a creed passed down on how to keep it running.
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A new book collects 1,000 famous design patents, from the Thigh Master to the fidget spinner.
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Photographer and artist JR has installed a trompe l’oeil canyon beneath the Eiffel Tower.
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How an Austin gallery that opened in 1967—and closed just four years later—established the Texas contemporary art scene.
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Two decades later, members of the design team, who keep in touch via a group text assembled after the website’s unexpected popular resurgence in 2010, still won’t confirm how many [Easter eggs] are buried with…
A retrospective of Margaret Wise Brown’s homes, including the West Village farmhouse with the Goodnight Moon fireplace.
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Renowned tattoo artists are joining together to open an NFT marketplace, where they’ll sell their original designs.
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Beautiful linocuts of sparse forests, by Paul Hogg.
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“Switching from cows to chickens [can] somewhat reduce carbon emissions—but it comes with a massive increase in animal suffering.”
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