America
Inside Simone de Beauvoir’s America
A photographic journey — A new show documents American life in the ’40s, as seen through the eyes of the young writer and intellectual.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Seven iconic looks from this year’s Saintly City Cat Show
America’s finest — Photographer Andreanna Seymore heads to Minnesota’s annual cat-themed extravaganza: ‘It felt like Disney gone wrong. These house cats were about to murder each other.’
Written by: Miss Rosen
Boots Riley is Hollywood’s new disruptor in chief
Truth to power — With his debut feature Sorry To Bother You, the rapper turned filmmaker is responsible for 2018’s most brazenly original slice of cinema: a seething take on class, race and identity in Corporate America. The good news is that he’s only just getting started.
Written by: Niall Flynn
Up close and personal in Steven Hirsch’s New York
City creatures — The street photographer captures the city’s most curious characters in his latest series, Creatures.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Surreal snapshots of everyday Los Angeles
Plastic fantastic — Street photographer Isaac Diggs captures a city at odds with itself, using a wide array of formats to explore the complex and layered nuances of LA life.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Identical Strangers: the secret triplets that stunned the world
Strange but true? — Three Identical Strangers is a new documentary that tells the strange story of American triplets separated at birth – how they found each other, and the dark reason why it happened in the first place.
Written by: Thomas Curry
‘Artists make work because they have to. It’s survival’
Black in America — Artist Hank Willis Thomas explores black identity and representation; using art to probe who we are, how we came to be and what is important.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Hip hop photography, remixed by iconic graffiti artists
The mash-up — Legendary New York photographer Janette Beckman hands her work over to the world’s biggest streets artists for new project, The Mash-Up.
Written by: Miss Rosen
What Netflix did next: cucks & the Coen brothers
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and – you guessed it – another David Spade film.
Written by: Megan Nolan
Documenting the dark side of ’80s Florida
A peculiar paradise — Photographer Nathan Benn paints a complex and surreal picture of his native state in the newly resurfaced project, A Peculiar Paradise.
Written by: Miss Rosen