Tag: culture

• Pop’s need for speed: ‘You have to drop new stuff constantly’

  September 19, 2019

  The music industry in 2019, says Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis, could be compared to a Pez dispenser. He is not talking about big heads – rather, the seemingly endless, instantly… more ›

• Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?

  August 21, 2019

  I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/music-black-culture-appropriation.html more ›

• Beyond Techno-Orientalism: An Interview with Logic Magazine’s Xiaowei R Wang

  August 19, 2019

  Though they’ve spent the last few years focusing on the intersection between agriculture and technology, Xiaowei R Wang‘s resume of working with tech in China is long and varied. https://radiichina.com/beyond-techno-orientalism-an-interview-with-logic-magazines-xiaowei-r-wang/ more ›

• Controversial deepfake app DeepNude shuts down hours after being exposed

  July 8, 2019

  Less than a day after receiving widespread attention, the deepfake app that used AI to create fake nude photos of women is shutting down. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18761496/deepnude-shuts-down-deepfake-nude-ai-app-women more ›

• July 3, 2019

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/fashion/dior-chanel-van-herpen-couture-paris.html more ›

• Virgil Abloh: the red-hot renaissance man shaking up fashion

  June 30, 2019

  On an early summer’s evening on the outskirts of Basel – a city almost certainly in Switzerland, but sometimes in France and occasionally Germany – hundreds of well-heeled men and… more ›

• Before Trump and the Kardashians, Gloria Vanderbilt Invented the Personal Brand

  June 20, 2019

  It used to be that the very rich avoided the spotlight at all costs. Then an heiress figured out how to sell her own story and changed all that forever.… more ›

• Revolution! Latin American photography – in pictures

  June 13, 2019

  From the photos by Alberto Korda that helped canonise Che Guevara to snatched street images of resistance, new show Urban Impulses embraces a turbulent half-century of revolvers and rebellion https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/13/revolution-latin-american-photography-in-pictures more ›

• Miss Millennium: Beyoncé

  April 20, 2019

  Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. https://www.gq.com/story/beyonce-cover-story-interview-gq-february-2013 more ›

• Squaring up: how Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop

  April 8, 2019

  We’ve all bought them at some time or another: the perfect pair of shoes. Stylish, comfortable – the kind you wear with everything until they fall apart, and you have… more ›