Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetised attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale? (The MIT Press Reader)
There’s a glut of information, entertainment, and everything in between out there. We asked 10 media-savvy people – all experts in their respective fields – how they stay on top of it all. (CULTURED)
It started as an internet outpost for die-hard music fans. Then came success. Then came corporate ownership. (NYT)
The story of a message board that changed hip-hop forever. (Hearing Things)
Public Enemy’s fourth album is often overlooked but it’s a true killer. (The Quietus)
Twenty years after The Radio Dept. left their second album behind with mixed feelings, Pet Grief is returning to vinyl as the band find a new generation of listeners. Johan Duncanson tells Jack Le Feuvre how he finally learned to hear the record differently. (The Line of Best Fit)
The Japanese music legend talks art, AI and his latest album with super-fan Ezra Koenig. (FT)
These XL Recordings signees are not the new Brokencyde – they’re way better. (The FADER)
RADIO RADIO with Blondey McCoy (Mixcloud)
Blondshell’s Sabrina Teitelbaum writes some of the sharpest breakup songs you’ll hear these days. With her third album, Violins, newly out, she spent some time selecting what she calls the sexiest songs ever made. (Playboy)
Herb Sundays 197: JP Haynie (Actual Source)
The co-founder of publisher/design studio/brand Actual Source, shares music that inspires his own recordings plus taste, shame and Nirvana. (Herb Sundays)
British artist Mark Leckey curated the soundtrack for Louise Trotter’s latest Bottega Veneta show, drawing on his iconic video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. (AnOther)
If the city had a font, would his lettering be it? (NYT)
On the occasion of Lowman’s exhibition at David Zwirner, the artist met with Dan Cameron to discuss his early life in California, the stories behind some of his new paintings, and what it means to make an artwork not only as a tribute, but as a way of learning. (The Brooklyn Rail)
Lotte Brundle meets the visual artist at his studio in Brighton. (Country Life)
Scenes From Angela Hill (toBe)
Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace. (New Yorker)
Penn & Fashion traces Irving Penn’s fashion and beauty photography over more than six decades. (NYT)
Secret History of Colour: Yves Klein Blue
The ultimate IYKYK colour. (The Rose Period)
Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time. (FT)
The architect tours the Gilded Age mansion after its $220mn revamp. (FT)
The artist on 2Pac, new boxer shorts and ‘old’ New York. (FT)
Once criticised for its modern soundtrack and pastel aesthetics, the director’s portrait of royal ennui is now being honoured in the chateau where it was filmed. (NYT)
Night Bloom
For over five decades, David Lynch called Los Angeles home. After his passing, the late auteur remains a fixture in the city. (Family Style)
In London, a New Flagship for Alex Eagle
The designer signed on to creative direct the whole of 180 the Thames, a new lifestyle hub on the north bank of the Thames. Then she moved her own business there. (NYT)
Only a few depot canteens are still open to the public – and they’re like a “hidden level in the video game of city life”. (Broadsheet London)