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Journal 25.
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Robert Farber Exhibit

Late coffee | 25 January

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Autotune and the Aesthetic of Antihumanism

An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photo by Phil Stern of Rita Moreno during a rehearsal for ‘West side Story,’ 1961.

Auto Tune The argument against the mass use of Auto Tune is not about favoring “technical facility over inspiration,” as Alex Pappademas monstrously wrote in... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Recent Notes

Photo by Yelena Yemchuk. Colorized.

The Spinning Room

Mikado

Literature

How To Read a Book

Detail of Henri Matisse’s ‘Marguerite Reading‘ (1906)

Many people go to book stores, join book clubs, and claim to still read those things. Reading, like cooking, is an activity with degrees of... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Editra Prose 1

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Literature

The Big Man: A Snowy Story

Via Fresco

Leif Fairhair was a Viking known as The Big Man. His ticket to fame was having been born sometime in the 1020s and still being... Text by John Hudson White.
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Art & Design

What to Do This Winter in New York

Chinatown, New York. iPhone photo by Eric Van Nynatten

Things happening in New York this Winter. Art-wise. See the newly restored Frick, now open. Charlie Stein: Almost Human at LOHAUS SOMINSKY, at 62 White... Text by Cici Thompson.
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Art & Design

Stone Carver Massimiliano Pelletti: On Perfection, the Classics, and Geology

Silver cave, 2023, travertine silver. Edition 1/1. Photo by Nicola Gnesi.

What appear to be imperfections in the material are stimulating elements for me because they become a kind of challenge, in being able to transform... Text by Madina Tulakova.
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Literature

Exclusive: An Excerpt from “Lack”

Meghan Holmes via Beth Vande Griend

His youth happened; a cricket ball rolling down a grassy hill. The brick alleys behind my grandmother’s house, the unlocked back doors, a constant draft.... Text by Cecilia Knapp.
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Fashion

Unseen Helmut Newton Photographs to Be Exhibited in Caraglio

Ferdinando Scianna, Marpessa, Caltagirone 1987 © Ferdinando Scianna

CARAGLIO, ITALY—From October 23 through March 1 of next year, the Filatoio di Caraglio in Cuneo, Italy, will present Helmut Newton. Interweaving, an exhibition organized... Text by Simona Alberi.
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Art & Design

Classical Art: Raphael Exhibit Coming to the Met Spring 2026

Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Courtesy of The Met

UPTOWN—In spring 2026, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the most extensive U.S. exhibition ever dedicated to Raphael, according to Artnet, offering a... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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Fashion

Flats

Comme des Garçons Mary Jane ballet flats, Spring 1999

A quick look back at a small but unmistakable moment from Spring 1999. Text by Cici Thompson.
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Art & Design

Works on Paper: Renoirs at The Morgan This Fall

Auguste Renoir, Study for The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Photo: The Morgan Library & Museum.

UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan's new director, according to... Text by Richard Aubern.
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Literature

Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613

No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum that one must be committed—that... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Film & Theatre

Newly A24-Renovated Cherry Lane Theatre Opens to General Public

Illustration by Lynn Lieberman – AFineLyne

DOWNTOWN—The Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street, has produced works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett (Beckett's play Happy... Text by Liora Ashwood.
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Film & Theatre

Revisiting a Kinetic Auteur Film With Hollywood Shuffle

Jimmy Woodard and Robert Townsend in Hollywood Shuffle (1987).

HOLLYWOOD—Robert Townsend's debut film Hollywood Shuffle (1987) is more than a spoof film; it is forever an earnest, imaginative and poetic work of satire, touching... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Music

The Voice Behind the Curtain With Versatile Voice Actor and Singer Dédé

Courtesy of the artist

Valeria Krel (VK): You’re an award-nominated voice actor. How does voice acting relate to singing, if at all? Do you find the two influence each... Text by Valeria Krel.
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Music

Meet The Pasta Queen

An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photograph by Achilleoliva of Loredana Bertè singing.

ROME—Allow me to introduce you to Loredana Bertè if you don’t already know her. By 1980, she had already established herself in Italy. That year,... Text by Liora Ashwood.
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Art & Design

Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s New Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

DOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through 21 June 2025, and features a bunch... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Film & Theatre

Legacy of Monica Vitti Honored at Lincoln Center

Monica Vitti. AFP. Colorized.

ROME—Few actors have navigated the currents of 20th-century Italian cinema with the agility of Monica Vitti. Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in 1931, she became a... Text by Tasmin Blake.
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Art & Design

Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

ROME—In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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Art & Design

Art Focus: Elegance in a Post-Ironic Era

Slip House, the brand new gallery opened at the base of a 19th-century, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street.

DOWNTOWN—Every two decades is a response to the previous two. After decades of irony, the purposeful ugliness of the 80s and 90s (“Anything that’s beautiful... Text by Cici Thompson.
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Film & Theatre

An Underrated Classic: Lina Wertmuller’s Love and Anarchy

Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973)

Lina Wertmuller is not a household name—and that’s the scandal. While Bertolucci’s Il Conformista was showered with accolades, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Fashion

The Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

Image courtesy of Gucci.

MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be found everyone, no less in Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands... Text by Cici Thompson.
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Film & Theatre

A Musical Documentary on Athens Youth With What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move

Still from What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move

ATHENS—Daphné Hérétakis’ What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move is a captivating hybrid short that explores the psychic dissonance of living... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Film & Theatre

Best Obscure Finds From Film Festival Season

Via The Photo Desk

New York hosts an increasingly rich range of film festivals every fall, from intimate indies to major international premieres. Here are a few keys from... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Literature

Pynchon Returns With a Big Band Mystery

Thomas Pynchon in 1955, before he disappeared from public view. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

At 87, Thomas Pynchon is stepping once more into the literary spotlight—or just close enough to cast a shadow. Shadow Ticket, his first novel in... Text by Richard Aubern.
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Film & Theatre

The Idea Economy, Grief, With Courtney Stephens’ and Callie Hernandez’ Invention

Still from Invention by Courtney Stephens

Courtney Stephens’ and Callie Hernández's film Invention blends the actual passing of both of their late fathers, with Stephens' first foray into nonfiction. Drawing from... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Film & Theatre

Plays: First Reading of The Wolf Is an Endangered Species

DOWNTOWN—In what, in my view, is becoming a growing convergence between the worlds of theater, and the special amalgamation of fashion and art that has... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Art & Design

The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental constraints and move toward abstraction. In Concerning... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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Music

Now Open: The Spinning Room

The Spinning Room. Photo by Adam Stech.

The Spinning Room is always looking for sound advice. To send private love letters, strategic suggestions, your almanac, cassette, vhs, record, or playlist (feel free... Text by Richard Aubern.
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Fashion

Interview with Greek Fashion Designer Kostas Murkudis

Photo by Martina Borsche

BERLIN—I don't really think that fashion is responding to the current state of the world. Text by John Hudson White.
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Literature

Fiction: The Hand in the Waves

Photo by Lena Be

Why did I go out onto the balcony? The waves. That’s why. They were massive. Massive and black and smashing into the side of the... Text by Rupert Taylor.
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Art & Design

Basel: All for sale

Painting by Maaike Schoorel

BASEL—Going to Art Basel is always a unique experience. For the majority, the art on display is merely entertainment; after all, any work, whether mighty... Text by Madina Tulakova.
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Music

Music EDIT RAdar 1

Music Edit RAdar 2

This following list of music was created to represent the first iteration of Music EDIT RAdar. Best New Foreign ArtistsFettuccine (Italian), Silvana Estrada (Mexican), Tellavision... Text by Editors.
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Film & Theatre

New Films: Original Narrative and Diegetic Music With La Chimera

16mm still from La Chimera.

Alice (ah-LEE-cheh) Rohrwacher's latest movie, a 16mm fable replete with diegetic music—music that exists within the world of the film and helps tell its story,... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Fashion

The Poetry of Materials

An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photograph by IBM, of Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing.

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Art & Design

Interview With Master Editor Franco Maria Ricci

An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photograph of Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past,... Text by John Hudson White.
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Literature

Alexandra Kleeman: Identity and the Future of the Novel

Via The Photo Desk

A cultural milieu is difficult to change—it exists across and within all of us. Text by Alexandra Kleeman.
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Literature

To Live and Die In Dime Square

Photo by Ernst Haas

Nobody calls it Dimes Square without modulating their voice like they’re quoting someone. Nobody calls this place Dimes Square because it’s not called Dimes Square.... Text by Melissa Mesku.
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Literature

The Thing About Not Being Heartbroken

Photo by James J. Williams III

I’ve never done this before, a reading stoned. I have zero anxiety. I drop $50 in the bookstore on tote bags and Anaïs Nin. Everyone... Text by Chloe Caldwell.
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