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.

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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 Obscura

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Desert Horses by Nick Bontorno

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

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

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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

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Where do you go to my lovely?

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Music (Link)

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Photo by David William Baum. 90º

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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

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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

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Roland Barthes. The Fashion System.

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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

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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

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Anthony Cudahy

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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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Photo by Johnny Dufort / Lotta Volkova

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Gary Bunt

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Photo by Gaston Suaya

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Photo by Adele M. Reed

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Photo by Goldfield Foxe

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Optimism! Laughs! Force yourself into good spirits! Drink a feeling of confidence and of being alive and be drunk always! Text by John White

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via Interiors

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Photo by Eva Besnyö, “The Wannsee Lido, Berlin, 1931”. Colorized.

Eva Besnyö, though widely recognized for her striking photography of interwar Berlin and Amsterdam, is less often noted as a pivotal figure in the Dutch... Read More

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via "Books"

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Puiforcat for Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread’s collaboration with Puiforcat turned the creases and ridges of solid silver tableware in a way that reminds you of something like corrugated cardboard,... Read More

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Photo by Theo Sion

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Susan Meiselas, Dee, JoJo. Frankie and Lisa after school on Prince Street. Little Italy, New York City, USA, 1976

When Susan Meiselas made Prince Street, Little Italy in 1976, she was teaching photography workshops on the side to support her early projects. Few know... Read More

via Archival Photos

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Research sketches of different versions of the Fauteuil Grand Confort. Collection Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand.

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Textile design by Grace Atkinson

via Interiors

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Fabric pendant lamp by Gunnar Eklöf, 1940.

Gunnar Eklöf (1909–1963) was a Swedish architect and furniture designer. He worked extensively with interiors for hospitals, schools, and civic spaces, where design was treated... Read More

via Design Objects

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Bedroom of Alexander Iolas, 1983.

via Interiors

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John Waters Senior, C-R-A-Z-Y, 1991. Collection of John Waters.

In 1994, filmmaker John Waters unwrapped an unusual Christmas gift from his father: a drawing hastily made after discovering how much his son had spent... Read More

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School of Athens, 1961 by Cy Twombly (1928-2011, United States)

via Art History

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Letter from Bob Dylan to Katharine Hepburn

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Detail from Willia Adolphe Bouguereau’s Pieta

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Leda and Swan in Roman mosaic

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Morandi’s Objects by Joel Meyerowitz via @editions.mag via @hazz_journal

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German silver double-bowl undermount sink removed from a house in Chicago and likely made by Elkay Manufacturing circa 1920 in the Chicago area.

via Design Objects

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Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non... Read More

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Mina

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Music (Link)

Subnotes (2)

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The way human beings speak is so heartbreaking to me—we never sound the way we want to sound. We’re always stopping ourselves in mid–sentence because... Read More

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What are people reading??

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Our aliveness is our erotic nature.

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Her old gold sweater’s sleeves were rolled up above her elbows, with another of gray denim tied around her waist, with blue pants and black... Read More

via John White

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Walking down the street, in a kind of fog produced by the sun. At the train station, a Turkish man with his sleeves rolled up... Read More

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