Note | 11 April | It's almost time for reading at the beach. Before you

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Photo by Martin Parr

It's almost time for reading at the beach. Before you grab a handful of magazines, here's a summary of what you can expect to read.

New York Times: The world is ending.

Le Monde: Learn about the 1789 French debt crises in numbers.

Corriere della sera: Current football scores, intractable wars.

Financial Times: Please pay £49 to read this message.

Paris Review: 1953: CIA, 1977: Didion, 2026: poem about soda.

i-D Magazine: Barbie gymfluencers, pop-girly coverists.

Paper Magazine: Why Kim Kardashian’s cousin hates elevators.

Dazed Digital: Top 10 akiosexual photographers’ astrology signs.

Elephant: Class consciousness revealed in painting of socks.

Purple Magazine: Olivier's recent fetishizations you missed.

Vogue: Anna Wintour is the one true god.

Airmail: Audrey Hepburn merch.

Instagram: Promotion, doom, promotion, brunch.

Lists

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I don’t read books. That’s not the right thing for me. I stand up. It’s better to move. I hear the thunder. Someone’s angry. This... Read More

via Ulyses Razo

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Belle Époque apartment in Paris by @bonnefoymarine. Photo by @francoiscoquerel via @whylessisnotmore.

via Interiors

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Tocco di Lusso

via Deep Cuts

Tocco di Lusso (Spotify)

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Velazquez girl by Eugene Shadko. 30x24cm. Oil on canvas. 2025. Shown here at 90º

via Art Desk

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Raf Simons

via Fashion Desk

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Desert Horses by Nick Bontorno

via Art Desk

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Colleen Barry "Female Nude with Pomeranians" 2026. Shown at 90º

Now showing at Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St.

via Art Desk

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I’m young. I might have forgotten the best and deepest things. I look like a good fresh memory. My mind is dying. You could give... Read More

via Ulyses Razo

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Symplegma by John Henry Fuseli

via Art History

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Abstract Expressionist, Joan Mitchell, in her studio. Paris, 1956.

via Art History

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Ingrid Bergman in Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

It reads:I'm going to Capri. To have a little fun, as you said. Museums bore me. You'll have more time for your pilgrimages this way.... Read More

via Capote Alphabet

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Photo by David William Baum. 90º

via Capote Alphabet

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In a bookshop this evening, I heard an author’s interview. An older woman, slightly out of breath, filled the room with her expressive and nervous... Read More

via John White

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Françoise Kirkland by Douglas Kirkland

The photograph shows Douglas Kirkland with his wife, Françoise Kirkland, in Paris. Douglas Kirkland was an American photographer whose career spanned more than six decades,... Read More

via Archival Photos

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Since the kiss in the mountains, time is guided on the golden summer of her hands and the ivy swerves. Text by René Char

via Notes Quotes

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Roland Barthes. The Fashion System.

via "Books"

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Rowena Cade, Photographer unknown.

In this photograph by an unknown photographer, possibly a friend or colleague on site, we see Rowena Cade being pushed in a wheelbarrow through Minack... Read More

via Archival Photos

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THE ONLY PEOPLE FOR ME ARE THE MAD ONES, THE ONES WHO ARE MAD TO LIVE, MAD TO TALK, MAD TO BE SAVED, DESIROUS OF... Read More

via Notes Quotes

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Anthony Cudahy

via Art Desk

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Moulded leather bag by LEMAIRE

The Carlos Bag was a collaboration between Sarah-Linh Tran, co-artistic director of LEMAIRE and Chilean artist and craftsman Carlos Peñafiel.

via Design Objects

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Cy Twombly's Iron Curtain at the Vienna State Opera, 2010-11. Since 1998, the series

'Iron Curtain, conceived by @museuminprogress, has been transforming the safety curtain of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since...

via Art History

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Business card of Yves Klein

via Important Documents

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Now showing at "Art of Noise" at Cooper Hewitt. Stereo Chest, 1973; Designed and made by Wendell Castle (American, 1932-2018); Stack-laminated and carved walnut, leather, metal, rubber, plastic, electronic components.

via Design Objects

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