https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kiki-smith-dark-water

Weekend Reads #297

Weekend Reads Here’s each state’s ‘walk-up song’ for the DNC’s ceremonial roll call. (NBC Chicago) Speaking of which, here is the DNC 2024 Roll Call playlist on Spotify. (Spotify) To save the world, my mother abandoned me. (The Atlantic – gift link) You’re doomscrolling because you’re bored, but you’re bored because your scrolling through so…

Alma Thomas, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, 1969, acrylic on canvas

Weekend Reads #294

Weekend Reads The 77-year-old artist making sculptural costumes out of her Tribeca apartment. (Shop Rat) When the private equity firm Carlyle bought Beautycounter, the skin care brand that people sold at kitchen tables, everything changed. (New York Times – gift link) Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it. (NiemanLab)…

jane fisher, sun bather, 2012

Weekend Reads #293

Weekend Reads Thank you, L, for sending this my way… Born in DC, I lived most of my life in Maryland, and spending my summers at Delaware beaches, I know the Orange Crush. In fact, it was the signature drink at our wedding in 2004! Maryland invented the orange crush. Now Delaware is claiming it….

Rene Wiley, Rain Reflected, 2015

Weekend Reads #292

Weekend Reads Eyes wide opened. (Swamp) Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. (MSNBC) How Taraji P. Henson spotlighted Black designers at the BET Awards. (Vogue) FEUDS JUNE 11, 2024 Martha-Ann Alito is beefing. (The Cut) And the original 2006 article by Robin Givhan. (Washington Post – gift link) How I…

Sofia Bonati, Anniki, 2021

Weekend Reads #289

Weekend Reads Can Google give A.I. answers without breaking the web? (New York Times – gift article) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI. (The Verge) The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, and the biggest blue-chip brands and their ad agencies are the ones funding it—by stuffing money into a Rube…