Tag: culture

• 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 ›

• Alice Mann I try to create work that challenges old stereotypes about life on the African continent

  December 18, 2018

  Alice Mann I try to create work that challenges old stereotypes about life on the African continent Created with Sketch. Remember your prom night? Us neither really. But while high… more ›

• Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia

  December 16, 2018

  Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia ORIGINAL What fat is for 4 minutes https://aeon.co/videos/abundance-has-made-fat-an-enemy-but-its-been-a-friend-to-humans-for-millennia more ›

• Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it.

  December 15, 2018

  Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it. The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to… more ›

• The 50 Best Albums of 2018

  December 11, 2018

  The 50 Best Albums of 2018 In 2018, it felt hard to reach consensus on anything—including music. The heavy-hitters of pop and hip-hop returned, but many disappointed; in fact, sometimes,… more ›