Arts

How I Made This: Feral Cat Den’s “Genesis Noir” (ArtNews)
How I Made This: Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo (ArtNews)
Ian Cheng’s Life After BOB (ArtNews)
How I Made This: Sergio Roger’s Soft Statuary (ArtNews)
Objet: Nik Bentel’s Botticelli-Inspired Dress for Summer (ArtNews)
Objet: Candles Inspired by Classical Sculptures (ArtNews)
The Soap Bubble Trope (JStor Daily)
How I Made This: Joshua David McKenney’s Fashionable Pidgin Art Dolls (ArtNews)
How I Made This: Capturing the Primal Appeal of Iridescence  (ArtNews)
Dante’s Divine Comedy and Its Influence on Art History (Art & Object)
Rose Symbolism Throughout Art History (Art & Object)
Morgante: Depictions of a Renaissance Jester Turned Duke (Art & Object)
Choreographing Beauty: Celebrations of Dance in Art History (Art & Object)
In Defense of Neoclassicism (Art & Object)
The Heroic Nude: Masculinity Laid Bare (Art & Object)
Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Portrait as a Young Provocateur (Hyperallergic)
A Dictionary Takes Us Through the Fascinating History of Symbols (Hyperallergic)
The Imperfect but Invaluable Experience of Virtual Figure-Drawing Classes (Artsy)
I’m Obsessed with This Depiction of Infant Jesus as a Middle-Aged Man (Artsy)
The Many Faces of the Venus in Art History (Art & Object)
Meet the Femme Fragile, the Femme Fatale's Counterpart (Art & Object)
The Problem with the Muse in Art History (Art & Object)
What Avant-Garde Artists Learned from Academic Art (Art & Object)
5 Facts to take you deeper into Botticelli's "Allegory of Spring" (Art & Object)
The Disturbing 3,000-Year History of the Male Bubble Butt (MEL Magazine)
The Ground-Breaking Innovations of Sculptor Antonio Canova (Art & Object)
David Bowie’s Life in Comics (Hyperallergic)
Madame de Drama (Air Mail)
A Minimalistic Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama (Hyperallergic)
How Pop Culture Distorted Pre-Raphaelites Idea of Womanhood (Garage)
The Secret History of the Bauhaus (Garage)
The Women of  Pre-Raphaelite Art (Art & Object)
Kirchner and His Women: Between Innovation and Tradition (Art & Object)
The Evolving Art of the Self-Portrait (Art & Object)
The Cautionary Tale of Verrocchio (Art & Object)
How Judith Beheading Holofernes Became Art History’s Favorite Icon of Female Rage (Artsy)
A Film Made to Be Watched on Instagram Exposes the Tricks of Influencer Culture (Hyperallergic)
Celebrating the Male Physique in Gay-Adjacent Magazines (Hyperallergic)
When Artists Recreate Lost Children for Mourning Mothers (Hyperallergic)
Reenacting the Wild Art Salons of Gay Camp Icon, Paul Swan (Hyperallergic)
A Graphic Novel Revives a Script by Salvador Dalí and the Marx Brothers (Hyperallergic)
A Newer, Queerer Rendition of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (Hyperallergic)
 A Peek Inside Milan Design Week, Where Sustainability Is Trending (Hyperallergic)
A Cartoonist’s Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide (Hyperallergic)
A Portrait of Tennessee Williams as a Playwright and a Person (Hyperallergic)
An Exuberant Exhibition Embodies the History of American Modernist Ballet (Hyperallergic) 
At Brooklyn’s House of Yes, Weird Is Wonderful (The Bridge)
Rediscovering the Fin-de-siècle Austrian Artist Who Anticipated Expressionism (Hyperallergic)
An Illustrated Portrait of Lolita Fashion (Hyperallergic)
A Revived 1920s Ballet Will Be a Surreal Confection of Candy and Kitsch (Hyperallergic)
A Studio Visit With Tara McPherson, ‘Queen of Cotton Candy Wet Dreams’ (NYMag's Bedford+Bowery)

Culture

Dirt: feat. Disco Bambino: Reclaiming Italy’s Eurotrash Roots (Dirt)
Thumbelina Is the Showgirls of ’90s Cartoon-Princess Movies (Vulture)
White Hardwood Floors: Sacrilege, or Serenity? (WSJ Magazine)
Eurovision winners Måneskin: ‘Cocaine? Damiano barely drinks beer!’ (The Guardian)
Cher taught me to stand my ground during love, loss and grief (The Guardian, for the series “The Fandom That Made Me)
Through The Bathroom’s Looking Glass (Jezebel)
Is She a Winter or a Summer? The Long Fashion Legacy of Color Me Beautiful (Jezebel)
Raffaella Carrà: the Italian pop star who taught Europe the joy of sex (The Guardian)
Cottagecore Debuted 2,300 Years Ago (JStor Daily)
The Haute Couture History of Sailor Moon (Jezebel)
Ja Ja Ding Dong! How schlager found its joyful place in the pop camp (The Guardian)
Astrologers and Healers Insist They Knew the Pandemic Was Coming (InStyle)
How Caroline Calloway followed the 'Disaster Artist' playbook to become Instagram's ultimate performance artist (Insider)
Art History Instagram Picks up Where Art History Tumblr Left Off (The Outline)
I Think About This a Lot: Greta Thunberg’s Mom, Europop Icon (The Cut)
Long Live The Literary Asshole (Humungus, a Medium Publication)
Meet the Mammoni (Topic)
How Kingdom Hearts Reframed Darkness (Fanbyte)
Psychoanalyzing The Legend of Zelda (Hyperallergic)
Banjo-Kazooie Is Now 20: Here Is How The Game Made History (Medium)
Tip of The Week: Video Game Music (New York Times Smarter Living)
How a Final Fantasy VII Character Became a Fashion Icon (Lenny Letter)
A Novel Set in the Berlin of the Future Pokes Fun at the Creative Class (Hyperallergic)
A New Film Charts the Spread of “Ferrante Fever” (Hyperallergic)
A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse (Hyperallergic)
How David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Has Influenced Contemporary Art (Hyperallergic)
From The Archives: The Freelantzovitz Files  (The Awl)
For a Brief Time in 1978, Italy Had a Televised Satanic Variety Show (Atlas Obscura)
A New Account of Robert Lowell’s Mania Risks Glorifying It (Hyperallergic)
This Line Inspired By Victorian Wax Corpses Really Made Our Fashion Week (NYMag's Bedford+Bowery)
Toshi Salvino Is a ‘Living Doll’– and Definitely Not the American Girl Kind (NYMag's Bedford+Bowery)
STUDIO GHIBLI REFUGEES ARE RELEASING THEIR FIRST FILM. HAYAO MIYAZAKI APPROVES (SYFY)
INSIDE THE CREEPY, SLEAZY, CAMPY WORLD OF '70S HORROR BOOKS (SYFY)

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