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This week: colonial photography through a Diné lens, Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design, Canadian nationalism on the rise, Australian twins become a meme, and much more.
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This week: Lee Bul’s headless sentinels, Tracy Chapman on reissuing “Fast Car,” Viet Thanh Nguyen on the imperialism of American literature, biomorphic seawall designs, and more.
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This week: photographing auras, The Great Gatsby at 100, a dubious de-extinction project, the “cubs” of the Black Panther Party, art historical Drag Race, and much more.
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This week: Joan Didion’s archive, Studio Ghibli AI, academia capitulates to Trump, Kaveh Akbar’s call to action, Buy Nothing Facebook drama, balloon wigs, and much more.
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This week: The forgotten Bloomsbury artist, Margo Jefferson’s incisive criticism, Elon Musk’s daughter speaks out, the benefits of thinking about aliens, mental health coffees, and more.
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This week: Remembering trans artist Miss Kitty Litter Green, a letter from Mahmoud Khalil, gamifying Spotify, the role of gossip, and wait — they paid him how much per article?
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This week: Isabella Hammad on Etel Adnan, a mural for Emily Pike, the problem with mainstream film, experimental ASMR, legalizing bodega cats, and much more.
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This week: Anne Carson on handwriting and Cy Twombly, Roberta Flack’s outsized legacy, the downfall of Shein, the “Zillennial” curse, and much more.
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This week: Lauren Halsey’s love letter to South Central, James Baldwin’s sartorial revolution, car-free neighborhood design, painterly book covers, and much more.
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This week: a trip to “Yokofest,” outsmarting surveillance pricing, the Haida Nation reclaims its land, dachshund side-eye paintings, and did Microsoft invent a new type of matter?
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This week: snarky dance criticism, a Super Bowl performer’s protest, Barbara Kingsolver builds a rehab center, Chappell Roan starts a trend, and did Rupi Kaur’s poem age well?
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This week: Sanford Biggers’s musical sculpture, Bayard Rustin’s secret antiquities, lessons from Octavia Butler, elephant autonomy, Severance bros are back, and much more.