Tag: culture

• 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 ›

• Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud

  February 28, 2019

  The discovery that upended Jan Six’s life occurred one day in November 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html more ›

• For Black History Month, Remarkable Women and Men We Overlooked Since 1851

  February 4, 2019

  These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. We’re adding their stories to our project about prominent people whose deaths were… more ›

• 1MDB

  January 10, 2019

  Delivered every Monday through Saturday morningThe most important and interesting news from the global economyView latestSign-up page https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1519008/ more ›

• Changing the Face (and Sound) of Rap

  January 5, 2019

  “TIK TOK,” a zippy and salacious celebration of late nights and mornings-after by a new artist named Ke$ha, has spent the last few weeks zooming toward the top of the… more ›

• “Ain’t got a care in the world / but got plenty of beer / ain’t got no money in my pocket / but I’m already here”

  January 4, 2019

  If you have a car, and that car contains some kind of media-playing device—like a CD player or whatever—then you probably prize that car as one of the few spaces… more ›

• Use the Web instead

  January 3, 2019

  Few things annoy me more than a random website asking me: “do you want to use the app instead?” Of course I don’t want to—that’s why I use your website. There are people… more ›