writing

art

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

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

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

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)

culture

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

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

The rise and fall of Delia’s, the catalog that ruled America (Fast Company)

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

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

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

entertainment

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

In “Small Axe,” Steve McQueen Exposes Nuanced Truths of Black Life in Britain (The Slowdown)

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)

Maya Cade on Why She Created the Black Film Archive: “How Does Blackness Exist Across Time?” (The Hollywood Reporter)

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)