News
Christie’s Launches Pop Culture Division to Court Millennial and Gen Z Buyers
Ringo Drum Kits Lennon Gretsch Christies March 2026
pop culture
Feature
The Indigenous Artist Making Dazzling Labubu Regalia
Tlingit artist Lily Hope dresses the collectible toy monsters in outfits inspired by traditional Ravenstail and Chilkat weaving practices passed on by her elders.
News
Charli XCX Says She Chose Brat Cover Art to “Save Money”
The pop star revealed the real reason for the iconic design.
Film
Why Do We Expect Ancient Romans to Have British Accents in Movies?
Most of the objectors to Denzel Washington’s accent are men who think too much about the Roman Empire. Here’s how the accent has changed throughout cinema.
Books
The Revisions That Make Us Human
Revising Reality argues that the world as we know it is our creative output so our memories cannot help but be continually edited.
News
Wu-Tang Clan Album, Among the World's Rarest, Heads to Museum
The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania will hold ticketed listening parties for the single-edition Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015).
News
On Mean Girls Day, Tina Fey Auctions Rare Annotated Script
A script of Mean Girls: The Musical, the Broadway show based on the hit film, is expected to fetch up to $12K.
Art
Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.
In Brief
An Instagrammer Points Out The Nanny’s Taste for Modern Art
An Instagram account connects contemporary art to the outfits of Fran Fine in The Nanny.
Art
Kitschy Iconography Pulled from the Depths of Pop Culture
Delano Dunn caps off his Project for Empty Space residency with the multi-layered, mixed-media exhibition, Dreams of Fire and Starshine filled with delightfully saccharine, pulpy, images of smashed and smelted pop culture data.
Opinion
Lady Gaga's Artflop
The New York Post has this take on Lady Gaga's flailing album Artpop, which is "on track to lose $25 million for her label, Interscope, prompting rumors of imminent layoffs."
Opinion
Deconstructing Barbie's Disproportion
The blogosphere and the mainstream media have exploded this week over the story of artist Nickolay Lamm, who used 3-D modeling and Photoshop to create a "normal"-looking Barbie. But lest we forget, the fact of Barbie's ridiculous proportions is not news.