Melina’s Closet

from COVETEUR WE ONCE RAIDED MELINA MATSOUKAS’ CLOSET  And it was just as cool as we imagined. Los Angeles. In Partnership with BET. by Laurel Pantin Think of pretty much any music video you’ve loved in the past few years, and odds are director Melina Matsoukas...

8,000-year-old Lox

from Nautilus The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years BY SEVINDJ NURKIYAZOVA The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived. Photograph by Helen Cook /...

Cast Inflatable Haters

from The New York Times Stop Hating Jeff Koons  Why “Rabbit,” the perfect art for the roaring mid-80s, continues to speak to us. By Roberta Smith Jeff Koons poses with “Rabbit” at the Tate Modern in 2009.CreditCreditDaniel Deme/EPA, via Shutterstock Jeff Koons is...

I.M. Pei Gone (at 102!)

from Curbed I.M. Pei, modernist architect, dies at 102 The pioneering Chinese-American architect won a Pritzker Prize in 1983 By Patrick Sisson Sygma via Getty Images I.M. Pei, the Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-American architect famous for his soaring, lyrical...