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Dirty yellow | 30 March

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The Swimmer Isn’t About Capitalism

Photograph by Slim Aarons which has nothing to do with The Swimmer, 1968, directed by Frank Perry and written by John Cheever.

If I can convince you to get through a potentially cringe scene between a suburban patriarch and someone young enough to make the whole thing...
Text by Pina Lomb
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Recent Note

Piero di Cosimo

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, dating from about 1480 or 1490. It is in the Musée Condé...
via Art History.

The Spinning Room

Morning 3

Art & Design

Classical Art: Raphael Exhibit Opens at Met

Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Courtesy of The Met

A preview of the most comprehensive U.S. exhibition ever dedicated to Raphael, open at the Met 29 March to 28 June.
Text by Marguerite de Ponty
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Film & Cinema

Interview: Anthology Film Archives, The Next Chapter

At the opening of Anthology Film Archives, November 30, 1970. Michael Chikiris, courtesy Anthology Film Archives.

A conversation with Kevin Bone, Architect, and John Mhiripiri, Executive Director, on preservation, popcorn, and the future.
Text by Clara MacMeekin
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Literature

The Big Man: A Snowy Story

Photo by Giuseppe De Santis

A YouTube expedition in search of an immortal Viking drifts from performance into paranoia.
Text by John Hudson White
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Art & Design

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

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

An interview with Massimiliano Pelletti on geology, imperfection, and sculpture as dialogue.
Text by Madina Tulakova
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Literature

Lack by Cecilia Knapp

Via Aphra Natley

An exclusive excerpt from Cecilia Knapp’s forthcoming novel, exploring memory, inheritance, and family distance.
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

A preview of a major exhibition bringing together previously unseen works by Helmut Newton in northern Italy.
Text by Simona Alberi
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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

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

An overview of a major exhibition examining Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s works on paper, opening at The Morgan this fall.
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

An examination of artistic commitment, doubt, and the dangers of moral absolutism.
Text by Pina Lomb
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Film & Cinema

New A24-Renovated Cherry Lane Theatre Opens to General Public

Illustration by Lynn Lieberman – AFineLyne

How A24’s renovation brings the Cherry Lane Theatre back into public use.
Text by Bob Loblaw
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Music

Interview: Voice Actor and Singer Dédé

Courtesy of the artist

An interview with UK-based singer and voice actor Dédé on performance, influence, and navigating the modern music economy.
Text by Valeria Krel
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Music

The Pasta Queen

Loredana Bertè. Photo by Achilleoliva.

A look at Loredana Bertè’s time in New York and the making of Made in Italy.
Text by Bob Loblaw
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Art & Design

Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

An overview of a cross-institution collaboration between Grimm Gallery and Metrograph centered on Louise Giovanelli’s work.
Text by Bob Loblaw
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Film & Cinema

Legacy of Monica Vitti Honored at Lincoln Center

Monica Vitti. AFP. Colorized.

Monica Vitti’s career revisited through a 14-film retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center.
Text by Tasmin Blake
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Art & Design

Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

Sculpture, drawing, and continuity in the career of Francesco Messina.
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.

On beauty, restraint, and a potential return to elegance after decades of irony.
Text by Cici Thompson
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Film & Cinema

An Underrated Classic: Lina Wertmuller’s Love and Anarchy

Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973)

Why Lina Wertmüller’s Love and Anarchy deserves a central place in film history.
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.

Tradition, adaptability, and contemporary design in Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters.
Text by Cici Thompson
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Film & Cinema

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

Greek auteur director's hybrid portrait of youth, music, and daily life in contemporary Athens.
Text by Dalia Morgan
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Film & Cinema

Best Obscure Finds From Film Festival Season

Via The Photo Desk

Selected short and feature discoveries from this year’s New York film festivals.
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

Pynchon's latest novel brings big band rhythms to paranoia, espionage, and disappearance.
Text by Richard Aubern
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Film & Cinema

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

Still from Invention by Courtney Stephens

Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernández explore grief through capitalism, belief, and found footage.
Text by Dalia Morgan
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Film & Cinema

Plays: First Reading of The Wolf Is an Endangered Species

A recovered 1973 one-act returns through a downtown reading and a cross-disciplinary cast.
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.

Writing and dance as parallel systems of form, tension, and release.
Text by Marguerite de Ponty
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Music

Enter The Spinning Room

The Spinning Room. Photo by Adam Stech.

The Spinning Room is always looking for sound advice.
Text by Richard Aubern
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Fashion

Interview: Kostas Murkudis

Photo by Christian Colomer. Styled by Anais Codina. Shown at 90º

On turbo-capitalism, decadence, and fashion’s refusal to respond.
Text by John Hudson White
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Music

Autotune vs. the Laws of Primordial Humanism

Rita Moreno by Phil Stern. Colorized.

An essay on pitch, technology, and the quiet erasure of the human voice.
Text by Pina Lomb
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Literature

The Hand in the Waves by Rupert Taylor

Photo by Lena Be

On a night at sea, usefulness becomes fantasy, effort becomes ordeal, and salvation arrives misaligned.
Text by Rupert Taylor
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Art & Design

Basel: All for sale

Painting by Maaike Schoorel

Art Basel as marketplace, social theater, and spectator sport, where the art competes with proximity, access, and champagne.
Text by Madina Tulakova
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Music

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Text by Editors
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Film & Cinema

New Films: Original Narrative and Diegetic Music With La Chimera

16mm still from La Chimera.

Rohrwacher reaches for enchantment and originality, brushing up against melancholy and miscasting along the way.
Text by Dalia Morgan
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Fashion

The Poetry of Materials

A gown by Charles James. Photographed by Cecil Beaton.

From silk and rationing to code and looms, textiles as a record of power, labor, and desire.
Text by Pina Lomb
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Art & Design

The Last Interview: Master Editor Franco Maria Ricci

Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

A final conversation about art, death, geometry, and memory.
Text by John Hudson White
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Literature

Interview: Novelist Alexandra Kleeman

Via The Photo Desk

Alexandra Kleeman on on identity, capitalism, ecology, and the future of the novel.
Text by Alexandra Kleeman
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Literature

To Live and Die In Dime Square

Photo by Ernst Haas

An essay about place as performance.
Text by Melissa Mesku
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Literature

The Thing About Not Being Heartbroken

Photo by James J. Williams III

On tour readings, Instagram confusion, and solo moviegoing.
Text by Chloe Caldwell
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