Required Reading

This week, blonde hair supremacy, Salman Rushdie’s new novel, and why do boutique shops all look the same?

Mildred Howard’s Art of Giving

She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic.

What Makes a Good Arts District?

Along Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row, development has pushed out several art spaces during the last decade, resulting in a “manufactured” arts district.

Required Reading

This week, new chatbots will write your essays, psychedelics and climate activism, architectural media’s obsession with “house porn,” and much more.

Unmasking the Power of Lucha Libre

Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas shows that the performative wrestling genre is about more than the wrestlers or their costumes.