writing

art

It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue (The New York Times)

“Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure” Exhibition Debuts in Los Angeles (The Hollywood Reporter)

A New Exhibition Explores the Omnipresence of Black Grief (The Slowdown)

A Textile Designer Who Draws on Art History and Neuroscience (T Magazine)

Pantone’s Color of the Year is Awful (Fast Company)

How One Woman Transforms Plants Into Pigment (Atlas Obscura)

The Vintage Japanese Copy Machine Enjoying an Artistic Renaissance (Atlas Obscura)

Weaving, Coding, and the Secret History of ‘Women’s Work’ (Fast Company)

architecture + design

Chicago: the Typeface (Chicago Magazine)

This Artist is Building an Aesthetic World That Centers the Black Experience (Architectural Digest)

When Gorgeous Architectural Landmarks Are Also Monuments to Fascism (Atlas Obscura)

Designing an Experimental Technology Curriculum By – and For – Black Creatives (AIGA Eye on Design)

An Accidental Game of Telephone: How a Group of Women Designed the Black Panther Logo (Futuress)

How Strip Malls Reflect the Diversity of Los Angeles’s Neighborhoods (Metropolis)

books

An Ode to the Women of Hip-Hop That Plays Like a Mixtape (New York Times Book Review)

For Witches Of Color, Books About The Occult Are Scarce (Bustle)

Everything You Think You Know About Minimalism is Wrong (Fast Company)

What Indigenous Design Could Teach Us About Surviving Climate Change (Fast Company)

culture

How Chain, B.J. Novak’s Concept Restaurant, Built a Nostalgia Factory with Hollywood’s Help (The Hollywood Reporter)

Storyhouse Foundation, Membership Community for Creatives and Collaborative Healing (The Hollywood Reporter)

‘I Want to Be in the Crowd With Everyone,’ a New Kind of Slack Community (The New York Times)

How Myst Taught a Generation of Gamers to Explore New Worlds (Atlas Obscura)

Millennial Aboriginal Australians Have Developed Their Own Language (Atlas Obscura)

Hollywood’s Sobering New Reality of Fentanyl Lacing (The Hollywood Reporter)

Why Settle for Boring Glassware? (The New York Times)

entertainment

How UPN Ushered in a Golden Decade of Black TV — and Then Was Merged Out of Existence (The Hollywood Reporter)

The “Double-Edged Sword” of Telling Black History in Film (The Hollywood Reporter)

Why Architecture Should Have Won a Best Supporting Role in ‘Parasite’ (Fast Company)

How a Cozy Neighborhood Restaurant Became a Celebrity Hide-Out (The New York Times)

fashion

Mattel Made Barbie Popular, but Bob Mackie Made Her a Fashion Icon (The Hollywood Reporter)

The Rise and Fall of Delia’s, the Catalog that Ruled America (Fast Company)

The Fashion World Promised More Diversity. Here’s What We Found (The New York Times)

interviews

Analyzing the Kardashians: How Media Theorist MJ Corey Views Their Cultural Sway (The Hollywood Reporter)

Diablo Cody Meditates on ‘Juno’ and Its Critics 15 Years Later: “I Am Emphatically Pro-Choice” (The Hollywood Reporter)

Terence Nance on the Rituals Behind the Return of ‘Random Acts of Flyness’ (The Hollywood Reporter)

Jerry Saltz Has Some Advice on Staying Creative While Quarantined (Fast Company)

How Rem Koolhaas Imagines a Future Beyond Cities (Fast Company)

On Finding Freedom in Experimentation, with Kilo Kish (The Creative Independent)

The Fragrance of Belonging, with Tanaïs (Bomb Magazine)

music

Victoria Monét Was Built for This (Vulture)

Tracing Ska Music’s Great Migration (Atlas Obscura)

politics

What It’s Been Like to Vote in 2020 So Far (The New York Times)

Covid Hinders Vital Get-out-the-Vote Efforts: Black Family Reunions (The New York Times)

One More Thing the Pandemic Election Upended: First Campaign Job Rites of Passage (The New York Times)