ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM

A decade after his death, filmmaker William Greaves reveals his final work: footage of the 1972 gathering he convened at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in Harlem with living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, an event he regarded as the most important he captured on film.

RECORD CULTURE MAGAZINE

After a four year hiatus, Record Culture magazine is back with its eleventh issue, another close-up look at niche music and its relationship with art, fashion and culture. Read an interview with founder and editor Karl Henkell here.

RALPH LAUREN STAMPS

In honour of America's 250th anniversary, the U.S. Postal Service has selected Ralph Lauren to create “American Icons”, a commemorative collection of stamps using images selected from his unparalleled visual archive.

Learn more about “American Icons” here.

RICORDO DI POMPEII

A film by EPOCH, shot in the archeological park of Pompeii. Watch here.

THE DREAMTIME

‘The Dreamtime’ series by So Yoon Lym is a collection of paintings of hyperrealistic braided hairstyles.

The name of the series is a reference to a European coined term to describe the pre-colonial aboriginal Australian way of life and viewpoint of the world. The acrylic paintings were inspired by the artist's time working as a teacher in a high school where she photographed students. So Yoon Lym used the name of this series and braids to draw parallels between immigrant culture in America and aboriginal existence. 

"The histories of my students as well as myself is such that we are all connected in that most of our ancestors did not originate from Europe. And so, in my representation of these hair and braid patterns, I am referencing patterns that are unique to an urban and often immigrant culture in America that in my imagination exists in very much in a planetary, aboriginal existence, with all the layers and references to immigration, migration, displacement, segregation and racism."

(Osh via What’s Culture?)

PREP-SCHOOL GANGSTERS

‘Prep-School Gangsters’ was a seminal article penned by Nancy Jo Sales in December 1996 for New York Magazine. It told the tale of a group of New York City rich kids who fetishised hip-hop, wore North Face jackets, did graffiti, committed petty crimes, and sold weed to their private school classmates.

Read the article here.

STATE YOUR BIZ

State Your Biz, Volume 1: Select business cards from the Marvin Gardens archive featuring the likes of Stüssy, Triple 5 Soul, PNB Nation, Supreme and more.

(Via Storage Based)

RAPPER'S DELUXE

Organised chronologically from the 1970s to present day, Rapper's Deluxe offers a visual and cultural analysis of how hip hop has changed the world. Through photographs, art, advertisements, books, magazines, album covers, film stills and more, Rapper’s Deluxe is a highly curated collection of America's hip hop culture. 

Read more about the book here.