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I’ve been, like you, traveling and catching up, feeling empty, watching reality TV shows that were recorded in 2020 and noticing that most of these peo…
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I always see lists of “films directed by women” that don’t include some of the most obvious choices, like those of Susan Seidelman, Lizzie Borden, Tama…
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On the day of Balenciaga’s first couture show since 1967, here’s a piece I wrote for PIN-UP about the salon’s de-renovation: Maison Reloaded. And here’…
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Next week, I’ll start writing my annual summer column for Spike Art, “Out of State” again. I’ll link to the posts here when they’re up. There will be o…
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I promise I won’t always promote my ad copy jobs (lol), but this one was so much fun to work on, since it is directed by Torso, who I can’t speak highl…
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After visiting Alexander Carver’s studio while he worked on Potent Stem, his second solo show for K-T Z in Berlin, I wrote a short story, now up at the…
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I once tweeted something like, “I like public fountains because I like scenes in movies at public fountains.” This must be a pretty universal subconsci…
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A friend of a friend of a friend has a new facial modification, some kind of glowing implant to make it look like a neon circuit board is beneath her s…
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The details of Eve Babitz’s life always get in the way of the real story, which is the writing itself.
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The movie Headless Body in Topless Bar (1995), inspired by the New York Post headline (1983), is very different in tone from what its title suggests, s…
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You may send questions by replying to this email. If it’s been a while, try sending again, since they sometimes go to my junk mail. Q: I am currently c…
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Originally published in Aperture’s New York issue At the moment, I’m near a building that in the 1980s used to be the home of an out-of-the-way club ca…
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