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 Teruyoshi Hayashida for Take Ivy, 1965. 

Take Ivy

How prep and Ivy style were molded by Japan.

is the host of Articles of Interest, a podcast about what we wear. Its third season is dedicated entirely to the origins of preppy fashion. Here she writes on The Preppy Handbook and the Japanese birth of Ivy style. 

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Osamu Dazai, BookTok's problematic fave.

on Osamu Dazai’s modernist novel No Longer Human, and his newfound English-language fame as a TikTok author.

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CryptoPunk 305 on display at ICA Miami, next to Warhol's American Lady.

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Bored Ape water, FWB x Hennessy, and a mansion party.

explores the many Web3-adjacent events at Miami Art Week.

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The view from Basel

Radical Friends by Penny Rafferty and Ruth Catlow, 2022.

Radical Friends

"Radical friends make the effort to build systems of mutual resilience together."

interviews the authors of Radical Friends, a new book about the art world and DAOs. Plus, the latest news in streaming and entertainment.

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Anna Weyant, Two Eileens, 2022.

On the work of artist Anna Weyant.

on media sensation Anna Weyant’s paintings, and her latest exhibition at Gagosian: Baby, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over.


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Lose Yourself

The “official” Goncharov poster by Tumblr user @beelzeebub. (Tumblr/@beelzeebub)

Goncharov

The greatest mafia movie ever imagined.

on the fake 1973 Martin Scorsese film that Tumblr users are manifesting into reality.

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