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The art form that black Americans have relied upon for generations is no longer theirs.

Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race

I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.

Bret Easton Ellis • The Rules of Attraction

A half-minute later, Bell got his first donation. A woman threw in a buck and scooted off. It was not until six minutes into the performance that someone actually stood against a wall, and listened.

Things never got much better. In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and tak... See more

Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.

the case of Bill Watterson, the creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, who had made a pact to produce daily strips that resonated deeply with readers. He enjoyed the work and had no plans of stopping. However, as the popularity of his work grew, he faced mounting pressure to capitalize on its success by expanding into other forms of

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

You have to make a lot of work, she said, because 85 percent of what artists make is junk.

Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Here Warhol and his Factory are the model. Like Warhol, Hirst has developed production strategies to ensure that there is always enough material to keep up with collector demand; for instance, he’s made at least six hundred “unique” spot paintings.* He has also maintained a media profile that has expanded the audience and the market for his work be

Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World

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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

The lecture’s audience consists of bald solid thick-wristed men over 50 who all look like the kind of guy who rises to CEO a company out of that company’s engineering dept. instead of some fancy MBA program.

David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

The woman taking their money is fiftyish and a compelling advertisement for sunscreen.