Tag: culture

• Chanel Launches Arts & Culture Magazine in Indie Book Stores

  July 23, 2025

  The fashion house hopes the new title, Arts & Culture, can extend Coco Chanel’s legacy of surrounding herself with “audacious creatives.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/style/chanel-arts-and-culture-magazine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.aBuf.OQr_toiCtvB1&smid=url-share more ›

• ReynoldsRetro: John Lydon’s Jamaica jaunt 1978 / Dennis Morris interview

  July 18, 2025

  Film by Don Letts of Johnny Rotten in Jamaica (look out for a glimpse of the lovely Vivien Goldman)    JOHNNY ROTTEN IN JAMAICA, 1978 – INTE… http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2022/07/john-lydons-jamaica-jaunt-1978-dennis.html more ›

• ‘The British have always liked the certainty of club membership’: The controversial UK clubs that kept women out

  July 13, 2025

  Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital’s traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a new book explores this peculiarly British phenomenon. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250708-the-controversial-uk-clubs-that-kept-women-out more ›

• Art Basel Qatar names Wael Shawky as artistic director of unconventional inaugural edition

  July 9, 2025

  In a left-field move, Art Basel has appointed the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the artistic director of its inaugural Doha fair. Art Basel Qatar (ABQ), a partnership between the… more ›

• Childhood’s End

  July 8, 2025

  The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of… more ›

• The unravelling of the rock festival – Engelsberg ideas

  July 6, 2025

  Despite the peace signs and pat slogans of togetherness and diversity, the rock festival, like the genre it celebrates, has, from its beginnings, had issues with ethical consistency. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-unravelling-of-the-rock-festival/ more ›

• ‘The very essence of figuration in African sculpture’: works from the collection of Hilde and Dieter Scharf

  June 14, 2025

  In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›

• Vessel

  June 9, 2025

  A collective studio on the island of Aegina https://vessel-aegina.com/en/activities/the-only-flowering-plant-in-the-ocean more ›

• Clipse Talk Love, Hate, and What Rap’s Been Missing | GQ

  June 5, 2025

  After more than fifteen years apart, the brothers Thornton, better known as Malice and Pusha T, are back together, with a new Pharrell Williams-produced album that ranks with their most… more ›

• ACCE | New Report Details Rise of Creative Class Impact on Economy, Workforce

  June 1, 2025

  https://secure.acce.org/articles/economic-and-community-development/new-report-details-rise-of-creative-class-impact-on-economy-workforce/ more ›