Required Reading

This week, a Keith Haring drawing from his bedroom, reflecting on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, you’re not descended from Vikings, the death of cursive, and more

This week, fictional characters with student debt, a Gen X guide to Web3, landlord rent increases, neoliberals and Salman Rushdie, money and happiness, and more.

This week, drone photo awards, uncovering unverified Indigenous identity, vacationing in the Metaverse, the beauty industrial complex, and more.

This week, new photos of Jupiter, film audiences and critics disagree, Andrew Wyeth’s funerary drawings, Diva Kid meme reborn, and more.

This week, an architect designs his own home, unraveling the white supremacy of archives, pigeons in New York City, being “Asian” in the United States, apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather, and more.

This week, award-winning nature photography, reviewing Jared Kushner’s new book, Smithsonian NMAAHC hires a new digital curator, Damien Hirst plans to burn paintings, and more.

This week, the Getty Museum is returning ancient terracottas to Italy, parsing an antisemitic mural at Documenta, an ancient gold find in Denmark, a new puritanism, slavery in early Christianity, and much more.

This week, the Webb space telescope wows, übernovels, crappy pigeon nests, the problem with “experts,” and much more.

This week, criticism of New York’s proposed “feminist jail,” activists are losing steam, cultural appropriation parodies on TikTok, and more.

This week we discuss tanning, butt lift surgeries, trigger warnings, Documenta 15, and more.

This week, global population approaches eight billion, Hermès is coming to Brooklyn, how to live longer, and much more.

This week, Kate Bush makes a comeback, Boris Johnson goes home, stop saying “OK Boomer,” and more.