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Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It, Is to Read This Book in 24 Hours
Increasingly, the simple act of reading may not be flashy enough to compete with televised competitors.
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Nearly 1,000 UK Artists Commit to Cultural Boycott of Israel
Some 1,000 British artists have signed on to a cultural boycott of Israel, pledging their "support [for] the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality."
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More Emojis = More Sex
The next time your parents and other denizens of the older generation criticize you for using too many emojis, you can scandalize them further by retorting that more emojis correlate with more sex.
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Amateur Artists
Albert and Victoria may be no Raphael, but their work is more tasteful by far than that of their celebrity-artist counterparts.
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A Museum Dedicated to the Internet Is Opening in Germany
What is continually changing, always expanding, and ultimately boundless? If you spend more time staring at a computer screen than you do looking up at the stars, your answer might not be the universe, but the internet.
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Digitized Sketchbooks Bring Darwin's 'Beagle' Voyage to Life
Sailing aboard the HMS Beagle from 1833 to 1835, artist Conrad Martens kept sketchbooks of the landscapes, people, and animals the expedition encountered.
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Angered Archaeologists Allow Thousands to Enter the Louvre for Free
On Thursday about 100 peeved archaeologists took over the lobby of the Louvre in Paris, blocking the ticket booths for nearly five hours and allowing visitors to enter the museum without paying admission.
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Defiant of the Future, Museums Ban Selfie Sticks
Oh, art museums. You're so fickle — like a guy who sends a charming message on Tinder and then disappears after the first tryst.
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Two Literary Giants Will Release New Books This Summer
This week, authors Milan Kundera and Harper Lee announced plans to publish new books.
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Art Project Detonated After Causing Bomb Scare
The Atlanta Police Department shut down a major traffic artery in midtown on Monday after an art project by Georgia State University students sparked a bomb scare.
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A Family Reunion for Magna Carta Survivors on Their 800th Birthday
To celebrate the Magna Carta’s big year, put on your party hat and check out the four surviving copies of the original manuscript.
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Philadelphia Scores a Standout Early Duchamp
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is already home to the world's richest collection of Marcel Duchamp's work, but it just added two very uncharacteristic pieces to its holdings.