Woman creates an NFT artwork out of Instagram messages with a celebrity.
Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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Kings of England extorted money from their subjects in taxes concealed as gifts—a practice first used in 1473 by Edward IV. These were known as benevolences.
Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Lapham’s
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Sonia Shah
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. More