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Kelly Wearstler is a highly influential American designer whose career reshaped contemporary interiors by rejecting restraint in favor of bold, expressive design. Trained in graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art, she brought a strong sense of composition and visual storytelling into three-dimensional space, a skill that became central to her work. She rose to prominence in the 1990s through her transformative hotel projects—most notably the Avalon Hotel in Beverl

Charlotte Gainsbourg appears in the photographs taken by her half-sister Kate Barry as a deeply intimate, unguarded presence, shaped as much by family closeness as by artistic trust. Barry—herself a respected photographer and the daughter of Jane Birkin and composer John Barry—often captured Charlotte not as the famous actress and musician, but as a sister, a woman mid-thought, vulnerable, distracted, or quietly defiant. In these images, Charlotte’s trademark reserve becomes

Miles Davis (1926–1991) was one of the most influential and restless innovators in the history of jazz, a trumpeter and bandleader who constantly reshaped the music while also living a deeply turbulent personal life. Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, he moved to New York City as a teenager to study at Juilliard but quickly immersed himself in the city’s jazz scene, playing with Charlie Parker and helping pioneer bebop before deliberately pushing against i

Black History Month was created to ensure that the contributions, struggles, and achievements of Black Americans—long ignored or distorted in mainstream education—were formally recognized and studied. Its origins trace back to historian Carter G. Woodson, who in 1926 established Negro History Week  through the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now ASALH). Woodson, the second Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard, believed that the exclusion of Black his

I have been on hiatus for some time now; my last post dates back to September 2025. In many ways, both the state of the world and the circumstances of my personal life intervened, leaving me without a clear answer as to how one might balance work, life, and the persistent internal struggles that accompany simply being. To be three years out of school, without a clearly defined career path, can sound daunting—particularly at the age of twenty-six. Yet I can say, with some cert

Gloomy urban sketches Shane Connaughton via/ 64mag

The so-called “Dove Temple”  in Indonesia refers to Gua Pindul (Pindul Cave)  in Yogyakarta, which locals sometimes call the Dove Cave...

The population of Liberia generally does not talk about the bloody civil war that took place from 1989 to 2003. Not a single memorial has...

Claude Chabrol’s Les Biches  (1968) is a stylish psychological drama that helped cement his reputation as the “French Hitchcock.” The...

Erin M. Riley is a contemporary American textile artist best known for her hand-woven tapestries  that confront themes of intimacy,...

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue  (1986), adapted from Philippe Djian’s novel, is a visually lush yet tragic love story that epitomizes...

For Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 1992 campaign, Steven Meisel photographed Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci  in a series that...

Maison Margiela’s Spring/Summer 2009 collection, designed under Martin Margiela before his quiet departure, is often seen as a farewell...

Serial Experiments Lain  (1998) is a groundbreaking short anime series that blends cyberpunk, philosophy, and psychological drama to...

Doug Liman’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith  (2005) became almost as famous for its behind-the-scenes drama  as for the film itself. Shot with Brad...

The iconic scene from "Spider-Man" where Peter Parker catches the slipping Mary Jane and her lunch tray was filmed without the use of...

“MP” – Jean-Michel Basquiat (1984) The portrait depicts the artist’s close friend Michael Patterson. In the mid-1980s, Andy Warhol, Keith...

Front cover of "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran Recently finished this book and can say that it will be apart of my spiritual journey for...

Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter and protégé of Gustav Klimt, known for his raw, emotionally charged style that helped define early...

The driver of a car worth about €300 thousand lost control and flew off a bridge into a river near the capital of Switzerland. The...