Culture
Film, literature, fashion, and the ideas moving through the world.
CLIQUA Made the Biggest Music Videos of the Century. Now They're Making Films.
Before you understand what Pasqual Gutiérrez and Raúl "RJ" Sanchez are trying to do, you need to understand what they have already done....
Dani Roche Has Always Been Becoming This.
Some people arrive fully formed. And then there are people like Dani Roche — who arrive, and then keep arriving. Who are always, visibly,...
Mother Mary: A24 Puts Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel at the Intersection of Fame and Fashion
A24 has spent the last decade proving that prestige cinema and cultural relevance are not mutually exclusive. Mother Mary, their April 2026...
Jordan Clarke: Canada's Most Underrated Music Video Director
There is a particular frustration reserved for artists who are undeniably excellent at what they do yet somehow remain outside the...
Streaming Killed the Album. Except It Did Not.
The album was supposed to be dead by now. The logic was simple: streaming platforms incentivize singles. Playlists favor individual tracks...
The Best Independent Music Blogs Still Standing in 2026
The independent music blog was supposed to be extinct by now. The narrative was tidy: social media replaced discovery, algorithms replaced...
MoMA PS1 Warm Up 2024 Proved Electronic Music and Art Still Need Each Other
MoMA PS1's Warm Up series has been staging the collision between contemporary art and electronic music since 1997, and the 2024 edition...
Brat Summer Was the Defining Aesthetic Moment of 2024
Charli XCX did something in 2024 that most artists spend entire careers attempting: she defined a cultural moment so completely that her...
The Digital Detox Industrial Complex and Why We Keep Buying Into It
The digital detox retreat costs between two thousand and eight thousand dollars depending on location and amenity level. You surrender your...
A24 Changed Cinema and the Culture Around Cinema Simultaneously
Somewhere in the last decade, A24 stopped being a distributor and became a taste culture — a set of aesthetic and sensibility markers...
The New Faces at Fashion Week and the Old Faces Watching Them Nervously
Fashion has a particular relationship to its own history. It cycles through it, cannibalizes it, declares it relevant and then exhausted...
South Korea's Cultural Wave Isn't a Trend, It's a Structural Shift
The Korean Wave — Hallyu — has been described as a phenomenon, a moment, a trend, a soft power campaign, a content industry success...