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Being Discovered: An Interview with Calvin Tomkins
Gerald and Sara Murphy with Cole Porter and the Murphy’s friend Ginny Carpenter, in Venice, summer of 1923. Gerald had come to collaborate with Porter on their ballet Within the Quota. In the late...
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On Songbook, Alec Soth’s new photobook. Customers waiting for Walmart to open. Williston, ND, 2012, black-and-white photograph. If you follow the gaze of every shopper pictured in Alec Soth’s...
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In Stargoon’s Car
AI is changing the way we write songs—but music has always embraced machine language. Soon after I’d arrived in New York in the late nineties, I found a job in a vintage synthesizer shop (now gone)...
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To Bricktop, on Her Belated Birthday
Photograph by Jack Robinson. Courtesy The Jack Robinson Archive. Whenever she was asked about her start in the world, the legendary saloonkeeper Bricktop—born Ada Smith—replied: On the fourteenth day...
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Being Discovered: An Interview with Calvin Tomkins
Gerald and Sara Murphy with Cole Porter and the Murphy’s friend Ginny Carpenter, in Venice, summer of 1923. Gerald had come to collaborate with Porter on their ballet Within the Quota. © Estate of...
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Look and Look Away
On Songbook, Alec Soth’s new photobook. Customers waiting for Walmart to open. Williston, ND, 2012, black-and-white photograph. If you follow the gaze of every shopper pictured in Alec Soth’s...
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In Stargoon’s Car
AI is changing the way we write songs—but music has always embraced machine language. Soon after I’d arrived in New York in the late nineties, I found a job in a vintage synthesizer shop (now gone)...
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