Culture Writer
Abel Blackburn
Abel Blackburn writes about culture in the broadest sense: the industries that shape it, the cities that produce it, and the people who move through both. He is drawn to the moments where a subculture becomes a scene and a scene becomes a reference point, and to the question of what gets lost in that translation.
23 articles
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Special Interest Knows What the Dance Floor Is For
June 2, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Klein Built Nine Albums, Her Own Label, and a Sound the Music Press Cannot Categorize
June 1, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Nick León Made His Debut Album From the Feeling That Miami Was Already Gone
June 1, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Charli XCX Did Not Invent the Brat. She Just Named It.
May 31, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Jane Schoenbrun Makes Genre Do the Work Genre Cannot Usually Do
May 26, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Amos LeBlanc Was Not Getting Better. He Was Already There.
May 23, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Erin Ford Is Making Clothes From the Other Side of the World
May 23, 2026 ·
3 min read
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Michaela Coel and the Television That Changed How We Tell the Truth
May 23, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Kelly Lee Owens Found the Space Between the Dance Floor and the Interior
May 22, 2026 ·
4 min read
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Five Frames. Amos Le Blanc On The Work That Turned A Toronto Music Video Kid Into The Director A24 Hired.
May 20, 2026 ·
7 min read
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The Hours: Cautious Clay and the Sound of Passing Time
May 19, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Mick Jenkins and the Weight of Conscious Rap Done Right
May 18, 2026 ·
5 min read
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Ballroom Culture Is Everywhere Now and That Is Exactly the Point
May 15, 2026 ·
6 min read
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Lagos Is the Center of the Art World Now
May 13, 2026 ·
5 min read
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The 2026 Venice Architecture Biennale Is the Most Urgent Show on Earth Right Now
May 12, 2026 ·
6 min read
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The Listening Bar Is the Most Important Room in the World Right Now
May 11, 2026 ·
6 min read
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ARTXIV Is Rewriting the Relationship Between Art and the Built World
May 10, 2026 ·
6 min read
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The Building That Changes What a Museum Can Be
May 10, 2026 ·
5 min read
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The Oscars Just Opened the Door for Music Video Directors
May 2, 2026 ·
7 min read
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How Afrobeats Became Pop's Global Language
April 26, 2026 ·
4 min read
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After GNX: How Kendrick Lamar's Domination Changed Hip-Hop
April 26, 2026 ·
3 min read
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We Buy Souls Just Sold Their First One on TikTok Live for the Price of Three Cheeseburgers
April 19, 2026 ·
4 min read
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The 10 Best Directors Working in Toronto Right Now: 2021 Edition
September 14, 2021 ·
5 min read
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