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‘They know what any grifter on the far-right understands, which is that tribalism is more important to their marks than their own financial wellbeing.’
“This has been kind of a shitshow behind the scenes — people trying to figure out who the aggrieved person is,” said another Times staffer.
The White Man Suing the New York Times for Discriminating Against White Men
Josh Kline: "Over the last six years, living and working in New York. I’ve been on the road a lot in 2025 and 2026. When I do come home and go out for dinner with friends, or even just buy groceries, I feel like I’m setting money on fire. The numbers no longer add up."
The Josh Kline essay 'New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art' has taken the art world by storm. Here's how he wrote it.
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Triggered
rage triggered by bureaucratic helplessness
rage triggered by deeper emotions: fear, grief, shame
rage triggered by mismatch in expectations
rage triggered by scarcity + envy + humiliation
rage triggered by powerlessness
rage triggered by shame + reputation threat
rage triggered by belonging anxiety
rage triggered by feeling manipulated
rage triggered by scarcity + threat
Full extent of Stephen Friedman Gallery's £7.8m debt revealed in filings
The bankrupt gallery owes £800,000 to three prominent artists—Alexandre Diop, Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley—while other major creditors
The NY Times is repeating the Theranos playbook....
....news orgs were so eager for Elizabeth Holmes to be this superstar tech visionary. What a let down.
But no lessons were learned and here we are again.
If you haven't seen #TheDrama, do not read:
So it was odd to me how Charlie, Rachel and Mike didn't ask Emma why she was so angry and depressed?
Rachel immediately centered her connection to gun violence and I guess I understand that.
But Emma just revealed a devastating truth about something harrowing and shameful and everyone else at the table centered themselves.
The entire movie is emotionally challenging in an unnerving way because (for me) I questioned love, forgiveness and judgment.
This article breaks down why many legacy news orgs seem stuck in 19th century.
Michael B. Jordan won the Best Actor Award at the 2026 Oscars and it had nothing to do with controversy over Timothée Chalamet's ballet comm
‘Variety was famously roasted for a headline asking "Do box office numbers really matter?" immediately after Sinners opened to a massive $60M+, leading stars like Ben Stiller and Chelsea Handler to publicly call them out for moving the goalposts.’
April 2025:
Pieces worrying about the box office seem reserved for movies like Sinners, with certain kind of filmmakers and a certain kind of audience.
EXCERPT: Entrenched ethnoracial hierarchies that persist alongside formal democratic rules threaten commitments to democracy.
Ethnoracial Hierarchies and Democratic Commitments - Volume 23 Issue 3
Carolyn Bessette Was Living the Dream. Then She Met John.
“Sex and the City,” which premiered in June 1998, gave us a very glossed-up version of this New York and a language for Ms. Bessette’s single life. That’s no surprise; Candace Bushnell was navigating the city around the same time. In her New York Observer column, she once wrote about her own dalliance with Michael Bergin, the same onetime Calvin Klein underwear model Ms. Bessette dated.
Qiana Mestrich: Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
CPW’s new exhibition includes works from the artist’s ongoing collage series, The Reinforcements, which Mestrich began in 2023 to address the absence in visual archives of women of color in the 1970s and ‘80s American workplace
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A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Do you blame me that I loved him? Do you blame me that I loved him, That my heart beat glad and free, When he told me in the sweetest tones
‘The Rihanna case is an extreme example. Yet it exposes something uncomfortable about internet culture: millions of people spend hours each week dissecting celebrities they have never met, convinced those strangers somehow deserve their rage.’