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Signal, September 16, 2026

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Thirty-Three Frames Shot on 12 September 2001, Held for Twenty-Five Years
By Ian Michna · Jenkem Magazine

Mike O'Meally went out with a camera the morning after the towers fell and skated through a downtown Manhattan with almost nobody in it. He shot thirty-three frames, then put the film away and left it there for twenty-five years. He has now collected them as a book called 9/12, and what he remembers of that day is not the version anyone else circulates: people on the sidewalk waving the skaters on, an atmosphere he describes to Ian Michna as weird optimistic.

Signal, September 15, 2026

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

How Shiv-Hari Hid a Stalker Inside a Love Song
By Zane Merritt · Sounding Out!

Zane Merritt takes apart the score Shiv-Hari wrote for Yash Chopra's Darr in 1993 and finds the menace built into the orchestration rather than laid over it. Jaadu Teri Nazar opens as flirtation and turns proprietary in the arrangement. The instrumental Obsession escalates through percussion and wordless choir as Rahul's fantasy runs away from him, and by Tu Mere Saamne the track is breathing. Merritt traces a perfect fifth recurring across all three and argues the harmonica does the real work, an instrument that has to inhale and exhale at once to sound at all.

Design

Italy Is Building the Overcrowding Into the Prisons — Failed Architecture
The Back Room Is Getting the Budget the Front Room Used To — The Spaces
Silicone Lamps You Press, Pull or Bop Instead of Switching On — Yanko Design
Robert Osborn Drew American Mediocrity in 1960 and It Still Lands — PRINT Magazine

Arts & Culture

Ten Years of Berlin Doorways and Staircases, in Seventy-Nine Pictures — Collector Daily
Twenty-Three Years of Allevol, Corrected by the Man Who Built It — Permanent Style
The Lockpickers Who Post Everything and the Ones Who Never Did — Huck
Gillian Cooper on What the First Stitch Commits You To — TextileArtist

Sound

Nine Shows, Seven Venues, Four Days in Chicago — I Care If You Listen
Friedrich Hollaender's 1930 Cabaret Score, Read Cue by Cue — Movie Music UK
Bach's Pedalling, Argued From Eighteenth Century Shoes — The Diapason
Sixteen Pairs of Vietnamese Kite Flutes, Spun on Rotating Arms — Sonic Field

Collecting

Fifteen Thousand Engine Drawings, Seven Thousand of Them Unrecorded — The Museum of English Rural Life
A French Doctor Traced 867 Tattoos Off Prisoners' Skin — Flashbak
Two Eleven-Pound Hubs, Rescued From a Dead Mint — CoinWeek
A Planter's Thirty-Four Books, and the Earliest Shakespeare in America — Folger Shakespeare Library

Document

The Sea Peoples May Have Been Refugees as Much as Raiders — The Ancient Near East Today
The Alamo's Second Battle Was Over What the First One Meant — Not Even Past
Anna Julia Cooper's Universalism, Against Victorian Womanhood — Black Perspectives
Mercy Brown Died in 1892 and the Folklore Ate Her — Contingent Magazine

Film

Hope Keeps Putting Incompetent People Past Their Capacity — Reverse Shot
Six Films From Toronto, None of Them the Ones Being Sold — In Review Online
Framing British Sign Language When the Hands Are the Performance — British Cinematographer
Two Argentine Directors on Making a Manifesto Out of a Cineclub — desistfilm

Signal, September 14, 2026

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A Poet With a Camera, Restored by Her Daughter
By Rachel Pronger · Sight and Sound

Sarah Maldoror made Sambizanga in 1972, three films on Aime Cesaire across as many decades, a carnival trilogy shot in Cape Verde, the Sahel and Bissau, and a portrait of Louis Aragon. Since her death her daughter Annouchka de Andrade has been putting the work back into circulation, securing Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation for the Sambizanga restoration that finished in 2021. She has now curated a season of it at BFI Southbank, running to the fourth of October.

Design

A Vintage Book Dealer on How Books Actually Get Shelved — The Modern House
Sao Paulo Bars Are Borrowing the Boteco's Old Signage — It's Nice That
The Infamous Upholstery Story, Corrected by the Man Who Started It — The Autopian
What MoMA's West Africa Models Leave Out of the Buildings — World-Architects

Arts & Culture

Walking the Corporate Utopia North Texas Built and Left Running — Glasstire
How a Bench Gets Laid Out, by Someone Standing at One — Paul Sellers
Two 1950s Braun Rangefinders, Shot and Assessed — 35mmc
Jane Wade on Turning a Tool Belt Into a Gathered Drawcord — Hypebeast

Sound

The Czech Philharmonic, Bychkov and Yunchan Lim in Prague — Bachtrack
Jeff Tweedy on Tone and the Importance of Imperfection — Acoustic Guitar
Talk Talk's Last Live Shows, Forty Years On — Aquarium Drunkard
What the Program Note Does to What You Hear — VAN Magazine

Collecting

Walking the Hong Kong Watch Fair Floor — Quill & Pad
Deciding What a Museum's European Collection Keeps — Antiques And The Arts Weekly
One-Sixth Scale Arcade Cabinets, and the Obsession Behind Them — SlashGear
Mari Hong on the Pieces That Were Never Meant to Be Hers — The Art Newspaper

Document

The Coalition That Fought Infant Mortality, From Its Own Papers — Nursing Clio
The Patriots Burned Norfolk in 1776, Not the British — The American Scholar
Wheat, Smoke and Three Decades of Advocacy on the Palouse — The Metropole
Bandung Internationalism, Traced Through Rare Pressings — History Workshop

Film

An Incomplete Calendar, Built From Petro-Archive Imagery — Ultra Dogme
Margaret at Fifteen, and Adolescence Under National Mourning — Little White Lies
Iranian Cinema, From Ellipsis as Poetics to Ellipsis as Testimony — The Brooklyn Rail
Elvis in Vegas, Against Venturi and Scott Brown — Screen Slate

Signal, September 13, 2026

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Catalogued as Another Paper for Two Hundred and Fifty Years
By Kele Johnson · Antique Trader

A volunteer working through eighteenth-century Admiralty records at Kew opened a file listed only as another paper and found one of eleven known Exeter broadsides of the Declaration of Independence, printed by Robert Luist Fowle between the sixteenth and nineteenth of July 1776. Michael Scurr made the identification in May. The sheet had been carried aboard the American privateer Dalton, seized off Portugal by HM Raisonable on Christmas Eve that year, and filed with the prize papers ever since. It is the only Exeter broadside known outside the United States.

Design

Chybik and Kristof on the Arena They Built in Jihlava — Disegno
A Derelict Bunker in Ubud, Remade by Fifteen Named Makers — Yellowtrace
A Clamp-Based Tape Dispenser, and the Flaw Nobody Fixed — Core77
Julia Kahl on What Should Never Be Printed — type.today

Arts & Culture

How to Mix, Burnish and Fire Terra Sigillata — Ceramic Arts Network
Em Davenport's Paintings, Read as Atavistic Feminism — Two Coats of Paint
Three Levels for Judging a Photograph — The Eye of Photography
What People Actually Wore at Rat Party — Dazed

Sound

Carlo Vistoli, From Baroque to Broadway in One Recital — Seen and Heard International
What Shaving the Bridge Does to an Acoustic Guitar's Top — Premier Guitar
Nine Ukrainian Musicians on Working Through the Air Raids — a closer listen
Two Composers Split the Cues for The Shards, Remotely — On The Score

Collecting

Pretty Changes, Totally Hair, Cut and Style: Barbie by the Hair — The Strong National Museum of Play
The FBI Agent Who Traces Stolen Art — Apollo Magazine
Yemen's State Press, Printing for Readers Who Expected Manuscripts — Leiden Special Collections Blog
The 2001 Air Force 1 Shape, and the Digging It Took to Learn It — Sneaker Freaker

Document

What Medieval Physicians Actually Prescribed for the Mind — Aeon
The Accuracy Complaints Film Inherited From History Painting — Perspectives on History
Four Manuscript Rolls Mapping a Medieval Water System — Historical Transactions
The Postwar Rush to Prospect the Colorado Plateau — Distillations

Film

Viktoria Schmid on Shooting in Three-Colour Separation — Another Gaze
Alan Jones on Curating a Box Set of Italian Disco Cinema — ScreenAnarchy
Turning a Trippy UFO Academy Archive Into a Documentary — Documentary Magazine
Shooting a Bluegrass Band as It Formed — POV Magazine

Signal, September 12, 2026

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

An Avatar of Yuja Wang, a Basement Bunker, and Eleven Out of a Hundred
By Eleanor Knight · Bachtrack

Pierre-Alain Giraud's installation puts the audience in headsets in a basement bunker under the Royal Festival Hall, free to walk around a pre-recorded avatar of Yuja Wang as she plays Ravel, Stravinsky, Bach and six other works. Warnings appear if you get too close to the piano. Eleanor Knight found the pianist herself curiously incidental to the whole apparatus, objected to the imagery and the heavy-handed setup, and scored it eleven out of a hundred. Her conclusion was that the pictures are better with your eyes closed.

Design

A 1944 Master Plan, and the Seventy Years of Demolition That Followed — Common Edge
A Vienna Apartment Reworked Around Secession Curves and Bespoke Joinery — Interior Design
Honda Built a Tailgate That Opened Two Ways and Called It Waku-Waku — The Autopian
Persian Lettering, Cast Into Manhole Covers Across Four Cities — Eye Magazine

Arts & Culture

Christopher Wool and Richard Shiff, Talking in the Studio — The Brooklyn Rail
Shipyard Photographs, Read Against a Century of Worker Pictures — c4 journal
How One Swiss Shop Became a Measure of Taste — Highsnobiety
Li Xianglong Works Between Fever Dreams and Internet Memes — sabukaru

Sound

Camille Norment Would Rather Not Explain Her Work — I Care If You Listen
Friedhofer's 1943 Score for a B-Picture, Read Cue by Cue — Movie Music UK
More Eaze Tracked It Live to Get Away From Dense and Digital — The Quietus
Inside the Last Magnetic Tape Factory in Europe — Sound On Sound

Collecting

Fifty Years and Forty Thousand Items on Women in the Wilderness — Rare Book Monthly
A Complete 1799 Set of Rowlandson's Cries of London, Spotted in a Window — Spitalfields Life
The Grocery-Checkout Pamphlets Nobody Else Is Cataloguing — Journal of Antiques & Collectibles
Four Thousand Pounds of Petoskey Stones, Hauled Home One at a Time — Beachcombing Magazine

Document

One Speech in Midsummer Night's Dream, Tracked Through Four Centuries — Folger Shakespeare Library
Sophistication as Anti-Sincerity, From Notes on Camp to Newport — Princeton University Press
Stapledon Wrote Two Billion Years of History After Driving Ambulances — The MIT Press Reader
His Biographer Checks the de Gaulle Film Against the Record — Engelsberg Ideas

Film

Crossroads, Film by Film, and an Argument About AI Imagery — In Review Online
Albert Serra on Destabilising a Shoot and Cutting 540 Hours — Metrograph Journal
Joe Dante's The Burbs, and What the Cul-de-Sac Was Hiding — Bright Wall/Dark Room
Working Through Barbara Hammer's Archive, and Her Own Face — Reverse Shot

Signal, September 11, 2026

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

One Light for Every Person Killed, Flown as the Towers at Full Scale
By Ryan Waddoups · Galerie Magazine

Creative director Addison Mehr built the piece with the Dutch studio Drift, architects Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz, producer Sky Elements and drone artist Yan Paul Dubbelman, taking direction from FDNY responders, families and survivors. The 2,977 drones launched from Governors Island on the evening of 9 September, forming a spiralling helix before resolving into the outlines of the towers at full architectural scale, over a score drawing on John Adams, Philip Glass and Max Richter.

Design

Tom Sachs Rebuilt Chanel's Paris Flagship From Plywood and Cardboard — W Magazine
The Ratchet Binder Had a Safety Flaw, So He Redesigned It — Core77
Four Hundred Square Feet, Built Around the Shutters That Were Already There — Apartment Therapy
Europe's Largest 3D-Printed Housing, Planned Around the Trees — Design Indaba

Arts & Culture

A Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Guild Puts an AI Installation in Its Fair — Cultured
The Counterpublic Triennial Argues With the Idea of Public Space — Hyperallergic
Hayun Surl on Working From the Inside of the Form Outward — Glasstire
Nine Thousand Hours Into Embroidering the Bayeux Tapestry by Hand — Artlyst

Sound

She Recorded Rose Garden Over Her Husband's Objections — American Songwriter
New Adventures in Hi-Fi at Thirty, and Where It Got Them — Rock and Roll Globe
Bonobo's New Record, Studiedly Moody and Urgently Intense — musicOMH
Haruomi Hosono Made Another Record at Seventy-Nine — The Quietus

Collecting

Shankly's This Is Anfield Sign Went for Seven Times Its Estimate — ITV News
Sixteen Hundred Photographs of E3 2009, Donated to an Archive — Video Game History Foundation
The Zelda Anniversary Hardware Sold Out and Went Straight to eBay — Nintendo Life
Fifty Books and Letters From Beatrix Potter's Great-Nephew — Antiques Trade Gazette

Document

What Hempstead Looked Like Before the Cars Came — JSTOR Daily
What the Chronicles Actually Say About the 1381 Revolt — Smithsonian Magazine
A Date That Does Not Add Up in Nabokov's Pnin — Futility Closet
Ctesibius Built a Water Clock That Held the Record for 1,800 Years — Open Culture

Film

The Day Photojournalism Went Digital, and the Photographer Who Died in It — ISPR
Mungiu on Parental Authority and the State, With Sebastian Stan — ScreenAnarchy
Venice Let the Politics In, Carefully — PopMatters
Five and a Half Hours on Borges, Built as a Detective Story — Micropsia

Signal, September 10, 2026

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The House Rogers Built for His Parents Now Belongs to the National Trust
By Camille Tenneson · Wallpaper*

Richard and Su Rogers built 22 Parkside between 1968 and 1970 for his parents, Nino and Dada, as two single-storey glass-and-steel pavilions set around a central courtyard and assembled from a prefabricated system. The family has given it to the National Trust through the Richard Rogers Charitable Settlement, and it opens on Saturday 12 September as part of Open House London.

Design

Milan Design Week, Read as Contamination Between Old and New — est living
A Studio Reorganises Itself Around Lighting and Waste — Indesign Live
A Cloister Added to the Back of a 1904 House — The Design Files
They Built the Gear Shed First, Then the House Around It — Dwell

Arts & Culture

The Needlewomen May Have Argued Back in the Borders — Ocula
Elizabeth Atterbury Stages Objects Until They Hold Memory — Sculpture Magazine
She Started Pinching Clay Vessels After an Earthquake — Creative Boom
Tarot and Pop Culture, Painted Edge to Edge — Colossal

Sound

Jem Finer and John Matthias on Building Almost Starlight — Bandcamp Daily
Sam Sodomsky on Take Leave and What Got Him There — Aquarium Drunkard
Little Simz Headlined Forwards, and the Rest Struggled — Far Out Magazine
Arca, Traced From the Margins to the Centre — Resident Advisor

Collecting

Rare's SNES Prototype That Became Banjo-Kazooie Is Now Online — Retro Dodo
The Jacket From Mercury's Last Live Vocal Sold for 111,000 Pounds — Antique Trader
A 1970s King Seiko Revived, on a Movement From Grand Seiko — Monochrome Watches
Six Overlooked Seikos, Including One Made for Tokyo 1964 — Worn & Wound

Document

Twenty-Five Tonnes of Stone, Hauled Eleven Miles — Ancient Origins
The Paris Review Starts an Oral History Series With Alexievich — The Paris Review Daily
A Paleolithic Child's Teeth, Read Again for Growth Patterns — Archaeology Magazine
The Summer of Love, Moved Back to the Nineteenth Century — Los Angeles Review of Books

Film

Photographing the Loss of a Childhood Home — Lenscratch
Seventy-Two Frank Horvat Photographs, Hung in the Baths of Caracalla — The Eye of Photography
Robert Greene Lets His Subjects Direct Their Own Scenes — Criterion
Twenty Years of River Footage, Recombined by Algorithm — Screen Slate

Signal, September 9, 2026

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A Lisbon Church Raised Off the Ground, With a Ten-Metre Void Through It
By Yatzer

Pedro Matos Gameiro and Joao Favila Menezes lifted the Church of Sao Jose da Boavista clear of its site and cut a ten-metre void down the middle of it. The raised structure and the contrast between materials put the building in a line running back through Le Corbusier and Aalto.

Design

A $240 Million Renovation That Copies the Original Board-Formed Concrete — Cool Hunting
Two Logos That Would Not Sit Together, Solved Inside a Typeface — Creative Boom
Seventy-One Square Metres Zoned by Angles Instead of Walls — ArchEyes
Supermarket Own-Brand Packaging That Refuses to Look Cheap — BP&O

Arts & Culture

Jonathan Baldock Works in Textiles, Ceramics and Things You Can Touch — Frieze
Sewn Paintings About What a Uniform Hides — Selvedge
The Lost Interiors of Siena's Palaces, Put Back Together — Apollo Magazine
Incise the Clay, Fill It With Slip, Then Soda-Fire for Depth — Ceramics Monthly

Sound

Jorja Smith's Introspection Set Against 130 BPM, in Under Three Minutes — Beats Per Minute
A Gothic Electronic Duo Turns Occult Philosophy Into Texture — Post-Punk.com
Chelsea Wolfe's Ninth Record, and the Ancestor Work Behind It — Clash Magazine

Collecting

Movado's First In-House Automatic Was 1956, and Twenty-Nine Millimetres — aBlogtoWatch
Ideal Turned The Fugitive Into a Spin-and-Move Board Game in 1964 — Toy Tales
The Human Ladder at the Second Step, and the Ladder That Followed — Time+Tide Watches
Sixty Years of Star Trek, Read Through Mego Figures and Happy Meals — Plaid Stallions

Document

Two Weimar Plays, Read as a Record of How Much Freedom Was Left — LitHub
How the British Elite Learned to Signal Status by Seeming Ordinary — JSTOR Daily
Doctors Have Always Read the Hand, Same as the Palmists Did — Aeon

Film

William Meyers Photographs Civic Life in the Outer Boroughs — Blind Magazine
The Falling Soldier May Have Been Taken by Gerda Taro, Not Capa — PetaPixel
Na Hong-jin and Hoyeon on Contradiction, and the Making of Hope — RogerEbert.com
Lee Chang-dong on a Friendship That Is Not Quite One — Slant Magazine

Signal, September 8, 2026

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

He Calculated the First Fast Portrait Lens in 1840 and Was Paid Once
By Fstoppers

Joseph Petzval, a mathematician in Vienna, designed the lens on paper rather than by trial and error. It gathered roughly twenty times more light than anything before it, which is what made portrait daguerreotypes possible at all. He never patented it, and Voigtlander manufactured it for decades.

Design

A Seventy-Thousand-Metre Library With a Roof Shaped Like Book Pages — Dezeen
A Timber Campus Outside Paris, With an Orangerie and a Cross-Shaped Incubator — ArchDaily
A Museum's Overstuffed Walrus Becomes Its Mascot — BP&O
Ledgestone Tracks and Seeded Pavers, in Place of a Concrete Driveway — Gardenista

Arts & Culture

Seven Hundred and Thirty-Seven Animals Hidden in the Bayeux Borders — Artlyst
Six Digital Avatars, Installed in Hospital Beds in a Closed Berlin Clinic — Whitewall
An Inverted Latex Umbrella That Doubles as a Birdbath — ArtAsiaPacific
A Calais Mural That Paints Named Residents Into a Fort — StreetArtNews

Sound

The No-Neck Blues Band Refused the Studio, Then Went Quiet for Seventeen Years — Bandcamp Daily
One Hundred and Twenty Songs in Six Years, From a Railroad Brakeman — American Songwriter
A 1974 Van Halen Recording, Made in David Lee Roth's Father's House — Louder
Andy Williams Played on Nine Albums and Wrestled as The Butcher — Consequence

Collecting

The Smallest Mechanical Planetarium, Now With Its Movement Exposed — Monochrome Watches
The Spanish Coin That Was Legal US Tender Until 1857 — Delcampe
Import Games Teach More Japanese Than You Would Expect — Time Extension
Temples Sold Their Buddhas Cheap in 1868, and the West Bought Them — TheCollector

Document

Phi Beta Kappa at Two Hundred and Fifty, and What It Was Founded For — The American Scholar
The Man Who Founded Amnesty, and Left It Six Years Later — British Library Blog
A Bristol Inn, an Entity Called Malchi, and Two Years of It — Strange Company
A Faceless Black Cone Was Aphrodite Before the Greeks Got Her — Atlas Obscura

Film

Nathan Fielder Made an Elizabeth Holmes Documentary That Will Not Sit Still — RogerEbert.com
Henry Wessel Shot California Through a Car Window for Decades — PetaPixel
Sunset on an Extinct Volcano, Shot on a 1998 Point-and-Shoot — 35mmc
Baldessari Put Text Over Photographs to Break Their Meaning — Blind Magazine

Signal, September 7, 2026

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Two Photographers Stripped a Former Bank Back to Its Concrete
By Remodelista

Laura Muthesius and Nora Eisermann spent two years taking a former bank building in Germany back to its original concrete floors and walls, keeping what was already there rather than covering it over. It is now let as a holiday apartment.

Design

Five Marble Fireplaces, Brazilian Modernism and a Peacock-Blue Library — 1stDibs Introspective
A Brazilian House Planned Around the Gaps Between Existing Trees — ArchEyes
Thirty Emerging Studios, Including One Building From Rice Waste — Wallpaper*
A Catalan House Extended by Adding Separate Pieces Instead of One Wing — HomeAdore

Arts & Culture

A Hundred and Twenty Works by Japanese Women Artists, Since 1945 — Aesthetica Magazine
Fuseli Painted Sleep Paralysis in 1781, After Being Turned Down — DailyArt Magazine
Eighty-Seven Works Made From Eggshell, Hair and Butterfly Wings — My Modern Met (Art)
Eight Artists in Bangkok on the Line Between Human and Ghost — Frieze

Sound

Tania Cassette's Debut Runs on Humiliation, Anger and Dependency — Post-Punk.com
Seventeen Vault Tracks From B'Day, One Carrying Selena's Vocals — SoulBounce
A 1980 Speech Synthesiser, Rebuilt as a Singing Instrument — Synthtopia
Interpol Became a Quintet and Made Their Most Accessible Record — Beats Per Minute

Collecting

Katsuya Terada's Castlevania Cover, Read Against the NES Originals — Nintendo Life
German Noah's Arks Still Sell, to Collectors Who Want Pre-Factory Toys — Antiques Trade Gazette
Why the Seiko 5 Keeps Getting Picked as the Travel Watch — Fratello Watches
A Tourbillon and a Micro-Rotor, Inside Ten Millimetres — Time+Tide Watches

Document

Florida Scott-Maxwell on the Life That Passed Through Her — The Marginalian
Pozzolan Concrete, Exact Gradients, and Aqueducts That Ran for Two Millennia — Live Science
The Bayeux Tapestry Crossed the Channel in a Suspension Crate — Christian Science Monitor
He Invented Forty-Five Connecticut Laws, and the Name Stuck — Futility Closet

Film

Kurosawa Remade His Own 1998 Film, and Little Changed — Slant Magazine
Kore-eda Adapts a Manga and Lands Among His Best — The Film Stage
Rebeca Huntt Turns the Camera Away From Herself for Rapinoe — POV Magazine
Rudy Ray Moore's 1977 Mashup of Blaxploitation, Horror and Kung Fu — Screen Slate

Signal, September 6, 2026

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Vitra Planted Eight Thousand Saplings Where the Orchards Used to Be
By Jessica Christin-Hametner · Icon Eye

Bas Smets built a Water Garden on the Weil am Rhein campus using a modified Miyawaki method, with three hectares of flower meadow and a rainwater-fed pond on ground cleared for industry in 1950. Hella Jongerius contributed three ceramic shark fountains, fired at 1,280 degrees.

Design

A Toronto Tower Designed by Women, With an Appliance Library and Stroller Parking — Monocle
Six Stone Volumes Set Like River Boulders, and Rooms You Can Shut Off — Dezeen
Thirty-Six Apartments Printed in Denmark, and a Bike Shed With No Cement — Yanko Design
The New York Public Library's Merch Is Generic, and That Is a Choice — Highsnobiety

Arts & Culture

She Builds Dolls From Mannequins, Then Paints Them as an Invented Family — Ocula
The Curator Who Gave Kusama Her First Major American Show, in 1998 — LACMA Unframed
Washes, Drips and Chalk Lines, Traced Back to Giotto and Piero — Apollo Magazine
Fifty-One Textile Artists in a Portuguese Mill Town, on Fragility and Repair — Selvedge

Sound

Ninety-Two Unreleased Tracks From the Album Townshend Calls His Most Personal — Rock and Roll Globe
Kevin Rowland Put Midnight Runners Back in the Name — Clash Magazine
Five Songs Tracing Nate Amos From Home Recording to a Matador Debut — The Line of Best Fit
Twenty Years On, Yellow House Reads as Grizzly Bear's Real Debut — Stereogum

Collecting

Jubensha Puts Roleplay Where Western Murder Games Put Deduction — The Strong Museum of Play
You Take Apart a 6498 Movement, Put It Back Together, and Keep the Watch — aBlogtoWatch
Nebraska's History, Read Through the Objects It Left Behind — Antique Trader
Sixty Dive Watch Cases Made in the 1950s and Never Used — Worn & Wound

Document

The Great Pyramid Radar Paper Has Been Retracted — Ancient Origins
Woolf's Uncollected Letters Hold Tea Invitations and Sharp Class Judgments — Los Angeles Review of Books
Four Million Roman Coins, Mapped Along the Army's Supply Routes — Nautilus
Sheep Pox DNA Pulled From the Parchment of Medieval Manuscripts — Archaeology Magazine

Film

Feiyi Wen Scans, Reprints and Rephotographs Until the Image Layers — IMA ONLINE
Five Directors Who Kept the Western From Dying — No Film School
He Photographed the Concert and Wishes He Had Just Listened — 35mmc

Signal, September 5, 2026

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Two Hundred Years of Photography, Counted From a Seventy-Two-Hour Exposure
By Fisheye Magazine

Fisheye and France's Ministry of Culture have put out a 224-page special edition opening a thirteen-month bicentennial programme. Historian Dominique de Font-Réaulx writes on Niépce's 1827 view from Le Gras, and thirty original AFP press prints from 1945 to 1995 go up on Paris Metro platforms until January.

Design

Sprawl Makes Walking Structurally Impossible, and That Is a Planning Choice — ArchDaily
One Front Door, Two Half-Flights, Three Households — Yanko Design
The Client Asked for a Pink Kitchen and a Yellow Sofa — Azure Magazine
Apartments Built at 1.9, 3.1 and 4.5 Square Metres, Sized to What a 25-Year-Old Can Afford — Design Indaba

Arts & Culture

The Bayeux Tapestry Will Hang Flat for the First Time in Nearly a Thousand Years — The Art Newspaper
She Paints on Rubble Salvaged From a Demolished London Estate — Hi-Fructose
Georgia O'Keeffe's Buildings, Shown Without the Flowers — Galerie Magazine
Sixteen Nordic Artists, Mostly Working From Discarded Garments — Hyperallergic

Sound

Jay-Z Played the Deep Cuts, Including One Unheard in Twenty Years — The Line of Best Fit
Rick Rubin Cut Forty-Four Songs Down to Fourteen for Toxicity — Metal Injection
The Cure Found Comfort in Camp on The Head on the Door — Paste Magazine
A Norfolk Rave With a Geodesic Dome and a Pub Built From Scratch — Crack Magazine

Collecting

Nintendo UK's Phone Line Went From 150 Calls a Day to Two Thousand — Time Extension
Plywood Darkens Unevenly, and It Cannot Be Patched — Dwell
Graphite From Japan, Lacquer in Ten Coats, Assembled in Stockton — Colossal
Eight Bronze Tiers and Eighty-Eight Oak Layers for a Whisky Distilled in 1931 — My Modern Met (Art)

Document

Victor Turner Named the People Who Live Between Categories — The Marginalian
The Brain Counts Events, Not Seconds — Noema Magazine
A Hundred Tons of Marble Staging Washington as a Ruin — Atlas Obscura
Renoir Painted Them as Children. Vichy Sent One to Auschwitz. — Christian Science Monitor

Film

Portraits of Yoko Ono and Amy Winehouse, All Shot by Women — Amateur Photographer
In 1904 a Photograph Travelled From Munich to Nuremberg by Wire — Fstoppers
Robert Pattinson Plays Chris Hansen, and the Show's Real Cost Surfaces — Little White Lies
Miami Vice at Twenty, Undercover as a Crime Film — Bright Wall/Dark Room

Signal, September 4, 2026

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Mona Built a Library With No Dewey Decimal and a Shakespeare First Folio
By Emma-Kate Wilson · Indesign Live

Phrontisterion sits underground beneath Anselm Kiefer's Elektra, designed by Nonda Katsalidis with Mona's librarian Mary Lijnzaad. Shelves light up according to what a reader is chasing, and the Wunderkammer holds a hand-signed Darwin manuscript, an Enigma machine and Bowie's handwritten lyrics to Starman.

Design

Resin Went From Eames Shells to a Material That Shows Its Mistakes — The Spaces
A Water Tower Painted as a Tomato Can, From Mid-Century Produce Labels — The Dieline
A Quebec Arts Venue in Red, Gold and Black Supergraphics — Azure Magazine
The Townhouse Larry Gagosian Once Owned, Recalibrated — est living

Arts & Culture

A Gallery Turned Into a Gym, With Classical Heads on the Weight Machines — Flash Art
Nairy Baghramian Works Without Sketches and Refuses the Plinth — Sculpture Magazine
Two Hundred and Fifty Works by Seventy-Three Saudi Artists, From the 1960s On — ArtAsiaPacific
A Durham Light Infantry Museum Reopens as a Gallery About Light — Aesthetica Magazine

Sound

Mastodon's First Record Without Brent Hinds — No Ripcord
Klara Lewis Builds Records Out of Processed Field Recordings — The Quietus
Yoni Wolf Split His Ninth Album in Two and Released the Optimistic Half Early — Paste Magazine
How to Tell Whether a Song Was Made by a Machine — Consequence

Collecting

Fifty Chairs, Pitched at Collectors Who Have Never Bid Before — Hypebeast
Bought in 1927, Seized in 1940, Restituted in 2023, Selling in October — Artnet News
Seventy-Five Years of Snoopy, Read as a Record of Designer Taste — Design Milk
Maritime Collecting, From Liner Postcards to Salvaged Instruments — Delcampe

Document

A Yale Student Built a Submarine to Attack the Royal Navy in 1776 — Smithsonian Magazine
Four Hundred Purebred Dogs, Judged Against a Standard Written in 1859 — The Paris Review Daily
Kaliningrad Holds Ninety Percent of the World's Amber and Little Else — Engelsberg Ideas
Jon Ronson on Doing His Best Thinking in the Field — Longreads

Film

The World Press Photo of the Year Was Shot at ISO 8000 in a Federal Building — Amateur Photographer
Shintaro Sato Photographs Tokyo Through Flatness, Compression and Light — IMA ONLINE
Danny Boyle Films the Murdoch Takeover of The Sun — Criterion
Monument Valley, Leone's Cutting, and the Shot Framed Below the Hip — No Film School

Signal, September 3, 2026

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Fifteen Richard Yates Letters, From a Boy of Thirteen to a Dying Man
By Nathan Dunne · The Paris Review Daily

The earliest was written in January 1939, when Yates was thirteen and telling a friend about the band they were forming. The last go to his youngest daughter, Gina, and in between are the separation, the alimony cheques, the drinking and the Hollywood work that never came off.

Design

A 1938 Sydney Apartment, Put Back Into One Piece — Yellowtrace
Rick Tegelaar Starts With the Material, Not the Sketch — Design Milk
A Bernal Heights House Built Around a Sunken Courtyard — Yatzer
Light Wells Cut Into a Victorian That Had Gone Dark — The Design Files

Arts & Culture

George Washington Carver Ground His Own Pigments From Alabama Clay — Hyperallergic
Seventy-Five Thousand Paper Kites, Hung in One Room — Colossal
Five Hundred Artisans on an Island in the Venetian Lagoon — Whitewall
Marigold Santos Turns the Aswang Into a Figure of Self-Determination — Hi-Fructose

Sound

Erykah Badu and The Alchemist, Sixteen Years After the Last Record — Crack Magazine
Cassandra Wilson, Who Rebuilt the Jazz Standard, Has Died at 70 — Stereogum
Brian Wilson Produced It in 1972, and It Is Still Hard to Hear — Aquarium Drunkard
Orcas, the Taos Hum, and a Month Without Power — Bandcamp Daily

Collecting

The Corgi Batmobile With Red Wheels Was a Factory Error — Toy Tales
A Corinthian Capital, Palestinian Tatreez, and a Chief's Chair — Dwell
VHILS Carves Into Doors and Billboards Pulled From Demolition — Hypebeast
Who Gets to Rewrite the History of a Games Studio — Insert Credit

Document

Greek Bards Could Hold Thirty Thousand Lines in Memory — Engelsberg Ideas
Henry VIII's Fortress Was Hiding in a Victorian Wall — Smithsonian Magazine
Bloomers, Wide-Mesh Stockings, and the Girdle Dior Required — JSTOR Daily
Falling for Lord Peter Wimsey at Seventy-Three — The American Scholar

Film

Sugimoto Has Been Shooting the Same Series for Fifty-One Years — Aperture
Sarah Maldoror Made Forty-Six Films, and Almost None Are Restored — Little White Lies
Nineteen Restorations at Venice, From Lubitsch to Cassavetes — Criterion
Anja Breien's Wives Trilogy Took Twenty-One Years — Metrograph

Signal, September 2, 2026

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A Nineteenth-Century Ceiling Is Still Sitting Underneath Chagall's at the Paris Opera
By Vittoria Benzine · Artnet News

Jules-Eugène Lenepveu painted the dome of the Palais Garnier between 1869 and 1871. André Malraux had Chagall cover it with twenty-four canvases in 1964, and Lenepveu's descendant has now written to Macron proposing the two ceilings alternate every ten years.

Design

Connectors That Turn Ordinary Wooden Dowels Into Furniture — Core77
Thirteen Rooms That Are Part Gallery, Part Shop, Part Studio — Remodelista
Eighteen Interiors, and an Argument for the Complete Room — Yatzer
What a City Built With Care Would Actually Look Like — Indesign Live

Arts & Culture

Stone Dials, From Renaissance Pietra Dura to a Mineral Found in 1962 — Quill & Pad
Rye Straw, Split by Hand and Held to a Tenth of a Millimetre — Monochrome Watches
Six Dials Made by Artisans Who Had Never Worked on a Watch — Canvas
Cooking Out of an Exhibition, for Los Angeles Elders — LACMA Unframed

Sound

Yes Wrote Roundabout on the Drive From Aberdeen to Glasgow — Louder
David Sylvian's Gone to Earth at Forty, and the Post-Rock It Predicted — The Quietus
Music From Big Pink, Cut From the Original Analog Tapes — Stereophile
Twenty-Seven Brazilian Covers of American Soul, Funk and Disco — Aquarium Drunkard

Collecting

A Buck Rogers Shelf, and the Hawk Figure Mego Never Made — Plaid Stallions
Sonic the Hedgehog, Rebuilt to Run on a Stock Amiga 1200 — Indie Retro News
McFarlane Closes Its Super Powers Revival With a Sixth Wave — ToyHabits
Playing Until You Get It Right, and What Perfectionism Costs — Nintendo Life

Document

Wendell Berry's Nine Rules for Judging a New Technology — The Honest Broker
Bashō's Fifteen-Hundred-Mile Walk Was Partly Invented — The Baffler
The Dresden Vonnegut Wrote, and the One in the Record — LitHub
Play Is Doing Its Work Even When Nobody Keeps Score — Aeon

Film

A Five-Dollar Antique-Store Print Turned Out to Be an Early Jack Mitchell — PetaPixel
Paintings Built From Life, Found Photographs and Machine Fragments — Booooooom
Stefania Zanetti Photographs Food as a Way of Photographing the Body — Icon Eye
Italian Voices of Today, in Six Episodes — MUBI Notebook

Signal, September 1, 2026

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

David Fair, Who Spent Fifty Years Proving Music Needed No Rules, Has Died at 74
By Chris Piner · American Songwriter

He and his brother Jad started Half Japanese in Maryland in 1974 and put out more than twenty albums of deliberately untutored art rock. Jad confirmed to Rolling Stone that he died on August 29 after an illness.

Design

Thirty-Six 3D-Printed Student Flats, With 84 Percent Less Carbon — Core77
A Public Housing Agency in the Balearics Takes the Obel Award — Dezeen
Forty Years In, a Designer on Smithsonian Posters and the AI Panic — Design Observer
A House Buried in Its Own Slope, Facing the Cathedral Ranges — The Design Files

Arts & Culture

The Met Drops the John Galliano Show It Had Planned for 2027 — Artsy News
Eighty-One Designers From Twenty-Seven Countries, in a Doha Heritage District — Canvas
Ryoji Ikeda Takes the Nam June Paik Prize for Work Built Out of Data — ArtAsiaPacific
Contrapposto Was Always a Choice, Never a Default — DailyArt Magazine

Sound

Orbital's 1994 Glastonbury Set Finally Gets an Official Release — musicOMH
Five Cassette Labels, From a Pittsburgh Percussionist to a French Nonprofit — Bandcamp Daily
A Buchla Modular Against a Seventy-Piece Orchestra, Recorded at Skywalker — Tape Op Magazine
He Builds His Own Drone Machines and Wants Risk Back in Live Electronics — Synthtopia

Collecting

Nobuo Uematsu, the Self-Taught Composer Who Scored Final Fantasy — Time Extension
Ideal's 1970 Drawing Robot Was Sold as the World's Most Unusual Artist — Toy Tales
A Cylindrical Hairspring From Marine Chronometers, Shrunk Over Three Years — Monochrome Watches
An Appraiser on Estates, Downsizing, and Why Brown Furniture Will Not Move — WorthPoint

Document

Hampshire College Has Closed After Fifty-Six Years — The Baffler
The Bund Was Founded the Same Year as the First Zionist Congress — JSTOR Daily
Freezing the Brain, or Uploading It — Eurozine
A Debut Collection Reimagines Joan of Arc Across Her Final Years — Cleveland Review of Books

Film

A Peruvian Photographer's Long Argument With Masculinity — Booooooom
Fifty-Three Hand-Coloured Felice Beato Photographs, Found in a Family Home — PetaPixel
The Last Time Anyone Photographed Cormac McCarthy — LitHub
Vincent Gouriou Wins the Roger Pic Prize for Rural Home-Care Workers — Fisheye Magazine

Signal, August 31, 2026

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

OMA Went From 59 People to Nearly 280. Two New Managing Partners Now Run It.
By Ellie Stathaki · Wallpaper*

Marianne Anthonissen and David Gianotten took joint charge in July, alongside two other new partners. Gianotten arrived in 2009 when the office had 59 staff; it now works out of Rotterdam, New York, Asia, the Middle East and Australia, and the plan is to hold the partnership at ten.

Design

A 1970s Trieste Megastructure Whose Courtyard Outsizes Every Square in the City — ArchDaily
A Milan Studio Argues That Narrative Beats Immersive — Cool Hunting
Tecate's Redesign Puts the Ingot Frame and the Eagle Back — The Dieline
Five Decades of the Designer Behind Dark Side of the Moon — PRINT Magazine

Arts & Culture

Robert Indiana Wanted His Maine House to Become a Museum. It Is Listed at $1.4 Million. — Artlyst
A Self-Taught Painter Gives PS1 Controllers the Old Master Treatment — Creative Boom
Mediterranean History, Read Through Geological and Mythological Time — Mousse Magazine
Forty-Six Artists From Twenty-Two Countries, Organized Around Listening — My Modern Met (Art)

Sound

Alarm Will Sound at Twenty-Five, With a Shaggs Song Reworked — Spin
An All-Women Festival Bill Raised Twenty Million Dollars — Consequence
A Brazilian Builder's Dual DX7-Style FM Sound Player — Synth Anatomy
Graceland at Forty, and the Boycott It Broke to Get Made — Rock and Roll Globe

Collecting

A Tool That Lets Analogue Pocket Owners Dump Their Own Cartridges — Retro Dodo
Star Fox 64 and How Rail Shooting Grew Up — Hardcore Gaming 101
Someone Is Rebuilding 1997's Grand Theft Auto for 68k Amiga Hardware — Indie Retro News
A Table Clock That Arrives as 222 Parts and Ten Hours of Work — Revolution

Document

Singapore Chased Food Security, and Traded Something Away for It — Aeon
Twenty Years of Social Media, and What It Did to Remembering — The Walrus
American Interventionism Was Already Set Before 2001 — Reason Magazine
Attention as the Thing That Builds Reality, and Can Unmake It — The Marginalian

Film

A Veteran Bookseller Starts an Imprint for Photography's Overlooked Chapters — The Art Newspaper
The First Human Figure in a Photograph Turned Up There by Accident — Fstoppers
Modern Film, 3D-Printed Spools, and a Kodak Box Camera From 1898 — 35mmc
A Thousand Works in One Hotel, Anchored by Anton Corbijn Portraits — Whitewall

Signal, August 30, 2026

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Seven Years of Caring for Both Her Parents, Photographed
By Aline Smithson · Lenscratch

Lynne Breitfeller started the work in 2018, when her father began cancer treatment and her mother went into heart failure the following year. Both entered memory care in 2023; her mother has since died, and her father remains in assisted living.

Design

Stepped Planted Roofs Hold an Indonesian Family House Together — Dezeen
A Visitor Centre in Arctic Norway Built as a Monument to Whales — Design Indaba
An 1800s Villa on Sikinos, Reworked Without Losing Its Shell — Remodelista
Ken Ohyama Cuts Ordinary Japanese Buildings Out of Their Streets — Spoon & Tamago

Arts & Culture

Three Hundred Works From the British Artists Who Organized Against Fascism — Artlyst
Aurèlia Muñoz Spent Five Decades Making Sculpture From Knots and Paper — Momus
An Ethiopian Painter Treats Colour as a Record of Shared Ancestry — Africanah.org
Joe Vaux on Patronage and What Galleries Owe the Artists They Show — Beautiful Bizarre

Sound

Interpol's Drummer, Interviewed in 2003 and Republished Now — No Ripcord
Sixty Years Since Hendrix First Plugged Into a Marshall — MusicTech
A Children's Sci-Fi Theme Put Brian May and Eddie Van Halen in a Room — Louder
Denver's Modular Synth Builders Finally Got Their Own Expo — Magnetic Magazine

Collecting

He Builds Miniature CRT-Style Televisions by Hand, for a Living — Retro Dodo
The Latest Toaplan Arcade Reissue Collection, Reviewed — Nintendo Life
The Garden Gnome Descends From Roman Household Spirits — Wallpaper*
Joker, Apache Chief and The Atom Join the Super Friends Retro Line — ToyHabits

Document

The Odyssey as a Manual for Recovering From Collapse — Palladium Magazine
Chiropractic Was Tested Scientifically Once, and Then Everyone Forgot — Skeptic Magazine
Gloria Steinem on Dolly Parton, From the Archive of January 1987 — Ms. Magazine
Cretaceous Chalk, Under a Garden — The Humanist

Film

A Documentary Inside a Puerto Rican Biker Club in Manhattan — Elephant Magazine
How Victorian Spirit Photographers Faked the Dead — DailyArt Magazine
A Man for All Seasons and the Thomas More Who Actually Lived — First Things
What the Day's Changing Light Does to Colour — 500px ISO Blog

Signal, August 29, 2026

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Nine in Ten of His Vintage Pieces Come Out of Florida Retirement Communities
By Jinnie Lee · Dwell

Chaim Romano runs Dolphin & Flamingo from Delray Beach, buying laminate, wicker, rattan and lacquered tables out of estates in Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Coral Springs. His largest market is New York, and Los Angeles is third.

Design

A 1920s Devon House Reopened Into a Single Line of Rooms — Leibal
Cuba Handed Housing Construction to People Who Had Never Built Anything — ArchDaily
A Brazilian Practice Folds Japanese Principles Into Tropical Building — Surface Magazine
A Vancouver Bar's Wordmark Was Hand-Painted by Guests, One Letter at a Time — PRINT Magazine

Arts & Culture

The Sculptor Behind Kryptos on Building Public Work Out of Science — Sculpture Magazine
A Printmaker in New Mexico, in the Stone Studio She Built Herself — Hyperallergic
Twenty-One Paintings Made With Soot From a Bombed Kharkiv Building — The Art Newspaper
Seoul's New Pompidou Opens With 112 Cubist Works and a Korean Counterpoint — My Modern Met (Art)

Sound

Bob Dylan Built Modern Times Out of Borrowed Folk and Blues — Paste Magazine
Dolly Parton, Who Gave Away 300 Million Books, Has Died at 80 — Rock and Roll Globe
Russian Circles Made Their Heaviest Record by Listening to Hardcore — Metal Injection
Janie Bradford Hobbs, Who Co-Wrote “Money (That's What I Want),” Has Died — SoulBounce

Collecting

A Publisher Rescues an Obsolete PC Remake of a Commodore 64 Shooter — Time Extension
Hanging Century-Old Banquet Menus as Lobby Art — The Menu Press
Gungage, Konami's Forgotten PlayStation Run-and-Gun — Hardcore Gaming 101
Six Watches, Six Crafts: Featherwork, Micro-Origami, Wood Marquetry — Revolution

Document

Seven Parchment Scraps Turn Out to Be a Lost Roman Law Book — Discover Magazine
How Free Time Became Something to Harvest — The Honest Broker
Inherited Photographs and the Queer Archives They Came Out Of — Electric Literature
She Kept a Diary for Seven Years to Find Out What She Actually Wanted — The Marginalian

Film

The 2000s British Vigilante Films That Rehearsed Today's Collapse Story — Little White Lies
Yves Saint Laurent Dressed Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid — Metrograph
Shooting the World Cup in His Own Hometown — 35mmc
Sophia Silver Made Her First Feature Through an Unexpected Pregnancy — Talkhouse Film

Signal, August 28, 2026

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

It Took 1,800 People to Pull a 400-Ton Castle Keep Back Toward Home
By Christian Thorsberg · Smithsonian Magazine

Hirosaki Castle's keep was rolled 256 feet aside in 2015 so the stone walls beneath it could be rebuilt. Volunteers have now hauled it 7.5 feet back over two days, and the work will not be finished until 2033.

Design

The 1929 Plan That the 15-Minute City Has Been Rediscovering — designboom
Two Hundred Years of Native American Graphic Design, Finally Collected — Fast Company Co.Design
Island Records and EMI's New London Office Is Built Like a Gallery — Azure Magazine
“Good Curation Is Not About Filling a Space With Statement Objects” — Icon Eye

Arts & Culture

Raul De Lara Fills the Hermès Windows With Furniture That Behaves Like People — Galerie Magazine
Antony Gormley on Treating the Body as Architecture — Sculpture Magazine
Why Artists Keep Turning to Tarot — Artnet News
Ben Sledsens Builds His Paintings From Pattern and Saturated Color — Colossal

Sound

“A Cross Between All Cultures”: Mikey Dread on Sixty Years of Notting Hill Carnival — Clash Magazine
A Guided Tour Through Krallice's Thorniest Records — The Quietus
TELLUS, the Cassette Magazine of 1980s Downtown New York, Gets a Vinyl Anthology — Stereogum
The Duo Channeling Black Poets, Jazz Drummers, and The Glass Menagerie — Passion of the Weiss

Collecting

The Nonprofit Building Traveling Exhibits Out of Adventure Game History — Video Game History Foundation
One Painting Started a Seoul Collection That Now Runs to Two Hundred Works — Artsy News
Utah Collecting, From Red Beryl to Utahraptor Fossils — WorthPoint
Rise 'N Fly, the 1980s Board Game Built to Fill a Gap in Black History — The Strong National Museum of Play

Document

King Juba II, Reconstructed From Fifteen Surviving Objects — Engelsberg Ideas
The Ancient Vietnamese Sea Wall That Surfaces Only at the Lowest Tides — Atlas Obscura
The 171 Gold-Tooling Tools That Outlived Three Bookbinders — V&A Blog
A 2,500-Year-Old Statue Turns Up Paving a Roman Road — Nautilus

Film

James Baldwin Returns to the South, on Film, in 1982 — Criterion
The First Aerial Photograph Was Taken From a Balloon in 1858 — Fstoppers
James Ashcroft on Rare Books, Fashion History, and Fatherhood — Talkhouse Film
One Photograph Was Not Enough, So She Added Poems and Testimony — Amateur Photographer

Signal, August 27, 2026

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Yayoi Kusama, Who Turned Her Hallucinations Into Infinity, Dies at 97
By Valentina Di Liscia · Hyperallergic

She began painting as a child to cope with what she saw, wrote to Georgia O'Keeffe before moving to New York in 1958, and lived by choice in a Tokyo mental health facility from the mid-1970s while her mirrored rooms travelled the world.

Design

A Community Center for Rural Senegal, Built From Rammed Earth and Bamboo — Yanko Design
A Reimagined Egyptian Dahabeah Brings Slow Travel Back to the Nile — Design Milk
Mouthwash Studio's Bonnie Clyde Identity Is Historically Wrong and Rather Lovely Anyway — BP&O
A Japanese House That Perches Above Its Slope on a Single Cantilever — Plain Magazine

Arts & Culture

Nosheen Iqbal Rebuilds Islamic Ornament in Wood, Bead, and Thread — Colossal
Hans Op de Beeck Drains the Color Out of Everyday Stillness — Whitewall
“Art Is Art. Fashion Is Fashion”: A Lagerfeld Show Tests the Line — Cultbytes
Soe Yu Nwe's Ceramic Hybrids Carry Buddhist Myth and Its Constraints — ArtAsiaPacific

Sound

Interpol Went Back to New York to Record, and the City Answered — Spin
John Foxx and Harold Budd, an Unlikely Ambient Partnership — Aquarium Drunkard
Hatebreed's Supremacy at Twenty, Still Groove-Heavy and Unmoved — Decibel Magazine
The Durutti Column Return, Late and Graceful, With Renascent — PopMatters

Collecting

How Microbrands Turned Into Serious Alternatives for Collectors — Fratello Watches
The Worldtimer, and the Romance of Distance Before Instant Contact — Quill & Pad
The School Year, Traced Through a Century of Postcards and Ephemera — Delcampe
Mattel Shrank the Whole of Oz Into a Polly Pocket Case — Toy Tales

Document

How Kudzu Was Supposed to Save the South — JSTOR Daily
Medieval Manuscripts Survived Because Someone Cut Them Up for Bookbinding — Smithsonian Magazine
In Early Modern Osaka, Even the Commoners Ate Well — Nautilus
Julian the Apostate and the Complicated History of Tolerance — Philosophy Now

Film

How Pakistani Cinema Learned to Film Desire Without the Kiss — MUBI Notebook
Almodóvar: “Everyone That Surrounds a Writer Feeds Their Creation” — Little White Lies
Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi's Five Documentaries That Refuse to Resolve — Criterion
Seven Photographers at Arles, Working Against the Dominant Story — Aperture

Signal, August 26, 2026

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

“It's Not About Technique, But Feeling”: Chiharu Shiota on Three Decades of Thread
By Emma Jacob · Aesthetica Magazine

The Japanese artist's largest solo show, The Soul Trembles, opens at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in September with thirty years of her thread installations.

Design

An Identity for an AI Transcription Tool That Sides With Human Mess — Communication Arts
A Town's Manufacturing Past, Turned Into Its New Identity — Creative Boom
Robert Smithson's Entropy Leads an Architecture Studio Into the Spaces Design Forgot — designboom
Arc'teryx Is Rebuilding Every Product It Makes to Be Recyclable — Fast Company Co.Design

Arts & Culture

Illustrator Spotlight: Ibrahim Rayintakath — Booooooom
Leo Orta on the Method Behind the Work — Apartamento Magazine
Khajistan Brings a Pakistani Pop Archive to Pioneer Works — Momus
The 1990s Chinese Cartoon That Sold a Generation on Globalization — LEAP

Sound

Le Ren Writes for Other People, and Her Songs Love Her Back — The Line of Best Fit
Generacion Suicida Pull Post-Punk Into the Desert on Hombre Nuevo — Ghost Cult Magazine
Dischord Has a New Shudder to Think EP — Dischord Records
T+A's Symphonia Puts an Entire System in One Box — TONEAudio Magazine

Collecting

Fifteen Days Photographing Kentucky's Putt-Putts and Giant Abacuses — Roadside Architecture
Matchbox's Fourth Walmart Truck Batch, Model by Model — Lamley Group
Six of the Strangest Controllers Anyone Ever Shipped — Bitmap Books
Sonic Eraser, the Puzzle Game Sega Only Sent Down a Phone Line — Sega-16

Document

Thrifting, From 1900s Brooklyn Rummage Sales to TikTok — Why Is This Interesting?
Sapiens? — Cabinet Magazine
The Last Days of David Hume — Engelsberg Ideas
Twelve Years of Guiding, and the Bequests Hiding in the Galleries — V&A Blog

Film

Roger Deakins Still Wants You Not to Notice the Camera — No Film School
Lei Davis Turns Childhood Wounds Into Imagined Landscapes — Fisheye Magazine
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, at the Getty — Feature Shoot
Ten Years Behind the Scenes at Notting Hill Carnival — Amateur Photographer

Signal, August 25, 2026

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Where Were You When Blonde Came Out?
By The FADER · The Fader

Ten years on, artists and writers retrace where Frank Ocean's second album found them, and what it rearranged once it did.

Design

An Italian Liqueur Named After Its Own ZIP Code — The Dieline
A Costume Designer's 1914 Bungalow, Remapped Around Its Light — est living
A Melbourne Rail Station Designed as a Civic Landmark, With Indigenous Co-Design — Indesign Live
The All-Titanium Porsche Design Chronograph 1, Now on Leather — Monochrome Watches

Arts & Culture

John Gerrard on Peak Oil, Detroit Techno, and Making SPIRITS With Richie Hawtin — LACMA Unframed
Mary Blair, the Artist Who Gave Disney Its Modern Look — DailyArt Magazine
Son Lux Made a 17-Minute Film Against the Fragmenting of Music — MASS MoCA
Christian Salablanca Díaz Takes Up Residence in a Guadalajara Ceramics Factory — Kadist

Sound

Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios Will Record Unsigned Artists for Free — Crack Magazine
The Two Bands Black Sabbath Chased on the Album Ozzy Called “Disgusting” — American Songwriter
After Decades Beside Tom Petty, Mike Campbell Steps Out Front — Stereophile
The Dead's Archivist Picks Ten Bob Weir Moments Worth Rehearing — Relix

Collecting

Nintendo's Forgotten 1989 Adaptive Controller, and the Mother Who Asked for It — The Strong National Museum of Play
“I Don't Think I'll Collect Another Thing Again”: 860 NES Games, Gone in One Burglary — Time Extension
Whiplash, the 1966 Marble Game Where the Target Was Exactly 100 — Toy Tales
What Vintage Chips and Antique Slot Machines Are Actually Worth — WorthPoint

Document

The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole on Earth, and Found the Unexpected — Longreads
Walking the Tightrope Through the Rise and Fall of Nazism — Cabinet Magazine
A New Biography Reopens Hannah Arendt's Life Through the Archive — The American Scholar
Hong Kong's Gin Drinkers Line, Named for London and Overrun in Days — Atlas Obscura

Film

Remembering Sam Neill, and the Carpenter Film That Let Him Unravel — Filmmaker Magazine
Lady in the Water, or the Death of the Critic in a Swimming Pool — Metrograph
How Nolan's Odyssey Closes Out a Career of Apocalypses — Bright Wall/Dark Room
Sara Cwynar Films the Machinery That Manufactures Desire — 1000 Words

Signal, August 24, 2026

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Kyiv Designer Making Tape Measures by Hand to Fund Ukraine's Air Defense
By Rain Noe · Core77

Vitaly Fedorchuk builds each one from aluminum and stainless steel, and every sale goes to the aerial defense unit his friend serves in.

Design

Gordon Murray's 680-Horsepower V12 Tourer, Capped at 64 Cars — Acquire
Designing a Poster Series When the Smithsonian Was Told to Flag “Inaccurate Information” — Design Observer
A Sydney Tailor's Shop That Puts the Cutting Table in the Window — Yellowtrace
Maarten Baas Has People Draw the Time by Hand at Schiphol Airport — Cool Hunting

Arts & Culture

“We've Reached a Tipping Point”: Inside the Labor Unrest Gripping U.K. Museums — Artnet News
Renwei Liu Builds an Architecture of Digital Perception — Flash Art
Vibeke Mascini Electroforms Live Plant Roots Onto Electrical Cable — Hammer Museum
Carolin Ruggaber Makes Sculpture Out of Flowers' Short Lives — Ignant

Sound

John Paul Jones Is Auctioning Off Another Round of His Studio Gear — Sound on Sound
“It's a Feeling More Than a Genre”: Ladrones on Flow Pesado — Revolver Magazine
A Chilean Techno-Industrial Producer Performs an Autopsy on Inherited Trauma — Post-Punk.com
AZ on Doe or Die III and the Seven Guest Verses He'd Take Anywhere — Ambrosia for Heads

Collecting

After More Than a Decade Away, Lucky Film Makes Colour Again — Film Photography Project
The Signs a Museum Founder Is Still Hunting For — American Sign Museum
A Set of 1973 Mego Pencil Toppers Surfaces After Fifty Years — Mego Museum
The 1987 Portable Color TV Built to Look Like It Came From Daytona — Obsolete Technology Telly

Document

Be Kind to Your Local NPCs — Kneeling Bus
Royal Remains and Executioners: The Historical Oddities of Notes and Queries, 1858 — Public Domain Review
How Donkey Kong Beat King Kong in Court — Gaming Alexandria
Decades of UFO Reports Over Canada's Nuclear Facilities, Finally Sorted Through — The Walrus

Film

Mel Brooks Programs Twenty Favorites for His Hundredth Birthday — No Film School
Lindsay Adler on Why a Photographer's Eye Gets More Valuable, Not Less — Creative Boom
Thirteen Mexican Photographers, from the Late 1920s to the 2010s — Aesthetica Magazine
Lev L. Spiro Photographs the Places Where the World Feels Thin — Feature Shoot

Signal, August 23, 2026

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Camera Lost on Everest in 1924, and the Photograph It Might Still Be Holding
By Alex Cooke · Fstoppers

Mallory and Irvine carried a Vest Pocket Kodak up the north face and never came back down. The film could still be developable, and the 2024 discovery of Irvine's boot has narrowed the search.

Design

A Hollywood Stylist Turns Decorator, Starting With a House in the Hills — 1stDibs Introspective
A Notting Hill Mews House Where Every Room Borrows the Same Shaft of Light — The Spaces
Korean Soy Sauce, Packaged Like a Reserve Vintage — Retail Design Blog
McLaren Digs Up a Half-Finished 1960s Concept to Design Its Next Car — Icon Eye

Arts & Culture

Monica Piloni's Self-Portrait Sculptures Are Disconcertingly Honest — Hi-Fructose
Mimosa Echard's Dolls' Theater Opens at Kunsthaus Biel — Mousse Magazine
Nengi Omuku Paints Her Utopias Onto Traditional Yoruba Cloth — Artsy News
Wallace Chan's Titanium Sculptures Test What Monumental Means — Something Curated

Sound

A Miles Davis Centenary That the Royal Albert Hall Was Too Big For — musicOMH
How Online Competitions Talk DJs Into Playing for Free — Dummy
The Haken Slim 21 and the Case for a Continuum You Can Carry — Synthtopia
Devon Turnbull's Speaker-Building Studio Starts a Record Label — Fact Magazine

Collecting

Inside the Paris Workshop Where Watch Dials Are Still Fired in Enamel — A Collected Man
Fifty Lucasfilm Veterans Are Coming to a Star Wars Collector Convention — Rebelscum
Thirty-Three Years of Mecha Toys, Shelved in a Florida House — Super7 Stories
Fourteen Days Photographing Kentucky's Mid-Century Statuary and Signs — Roadside Architecture

Document

An AI Story Won a Literary Prize. What Books Still Do That Nothing Else Does — Res Obscura
How the Pickup Truck Went From Modified Car to National Symbol — The American Scholar
Reservations, Queues, and the Slow Death of the Regular — Kneeling Bus
How Seiko's Quartz Watch Caught Switzerland Standing Still — Why Is This Interesting?

Film

Five Years Photographing Her Mother, and the Ethics of the Looking — 1000 Words
Karlovy Vary, From Soviet-Era Showcase to Serious Festival — Filmmaker Magazine
Nicola Lo Calzo Rewrites the Memory of a Sardinia in Revolt — Fisheye Magazine
David Slegers's Driven From the Garden — Booooooom

Signal, August 22, 2026

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The 2,000-Year-Old Cliff Paintings That Stayed Red Because They Were Made With Blood
By Hadani Ditmars · The Art Newspaper

New analysis of the Zuojiang Huashan murals in Guangxi finds animal blood, and possibly blood from childbirth, worked into the pigment as a binder alongside clay and lime.

Design

A Guangzhou Office Built Around Its Library Instead of Its Corner Offices — Leibal
A Milwaukee House Wrapped in an Illuminated Aluminum Screen — Plain Magazine
A Pink Lithium-Crystal Sauna Rises From a Toxic Wasteland — Design Indaba
Toronto's Waterfront Park Grows Around an Art Trail and a Circular-Design Pavilion — Azure Magazine

Arts & Culture

Sara Jean Ruiz Prints and Weaves Her Way Through the Archive — Burnaway
Mary Ellen Carroll Builds an Alternative System Inside the Museum — Momus
Hayv Kahraman's Weeping Figures Take Over a London Gallery — Elephant Magazine
An Istanbul Show on How Colonial Extraction Gets Written Into a Landscape — ArtAsiaPacific

Sound

A Welsh Black Metal Project Builds Its Darkness Out of Local Myth — Invisible Oranges
“I've Tried to Exert Power”: Judah Weston and IsoKeys at a Turning Point — Passion of the Weiss
The Afghan Whigs Reach for Soul on Soft Control — No Ripcord
Trevor Dunn on the Long Road From Mr. Bungle to ECM — Rock and Roll Globe

Collecting

Only 234 Roto-Sphere Signs Were Ever Made. One Museum Is Hunting the Survivors — American Sign Museum
Keeping a Dead Film Format Alive With a Rollei A26 and an Adapter — Film Photography Project
Tracking Down the Toys From One Christmas Morning in 1979 — Plaid Stallions
Zillion, the Master System Game Built From a Toy Line and an Anime — Sega-16

Document

What Watching Birds Teaches That Birding Doesn't — Public Books
Hermione Lee on the Awkward Pleasures of Literary Biography — The Paris Review Daily
From a 19th-Century Botulism Outbreak to the Modern Beauty Clinic — Eurozine
The Oldest Surviving Scrap of the Odyssey Goes on View at the Met — Artlyst

Film

Venice in the Early 2000s, Shot on Plus-X and a Mamiya 7II — 35mmc
Der Fan and the All-Consuming Side of Pop Fandom — Metrograph
In Defense of the Failed Blockbuster — Bright Wall/Dark Room
Abel Ferrara Turns 75, Still Working Outside the System — Senses of Cinema

Signal, August 21, 2026

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Fog of Hunger
By Sarah Berg · Aeon

From childhood, women are trained to restrict their appetite, and there's a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it.

Design

UUfie Reorganizes a Renovated Ontario Chalet Around a Steep, Wooded Site — Dezeen
Charlotte Rohde's New Typeface Has Heart-Dotted I's and a Plan to Overwrite Problematic Men — It's Nice That
A Former Pencil Factory in Brooklyn Becomes a Members-Only Hub for Content Creators — Surface Magazine
A Student Designs a Repairable Vehicle Built for Rural Scandinavia — Core77

Arts & Culture

Enrico David's Spectral Figures Are Hard to Forget — Frieze
Anton Alvarez Opens Whole Other Worlds of Shaping Clay — Sculpture Magazine
The Home of Donald Judd's Most Ambitious Work Is About to Be Restored — Wallpaper*
Astrid Kajsa Nylander on the Many Lives of Pink Ahead of Her Stockholm Show — Cultbytes

Sound

Westside Cowboy's Debut, It Goes On, Is One of the Finest Records of the Last 20 Years — Beats Per Minute
California Deathgrind Trio Deathgrave Debut Their Third Album, Hell Is Evil — Decibel Magazine
Kenny Beats, Now Kenneth Blume III, Opens Up About Building His Dream Studio — Tape Op
Weezer Don't Have to Fake It on The Gold Album — Consequence

Collecting

The Practical Elegance of the Louis Vuitton Escale Twin Zone — Monochrome Watches
How Moser's New Streamliner Pump Translates a Sneaker Icon Into Watchmaking Reality — Revolution
The Evercade Wireless Controller Is the Perfect Interface for Its Next Era — Time Extension
Hong Kong: Watch-World's Other Hub — Quill & Pad

Document

How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams — Nautilus
For Foreign Visitors to Mao's China, Hospitality Workers Were Unofficial Ambassadors — History Today
A Ukrainian Filmmaker Reconstructs the Grotesque Spectacle of Stalin's First Show Trial — Engelsberg Ideas
Khapped! — Jewish Review of Books

Film

The Things That Echo: What Four Films Taught Me About Becoming — Talkhouse Film
Photographer Captures Day-Old Goslings Leaping From Their Nest — PetaPixel
Discovering a Treasure Trove of Film Posters by David Lance Goines — MUBI Notebook
Shatara Michelle Ford's Sophomore Feature Is a Cathartic Work of Healing and Beauty — The Film Stage

Signal, August 20, 2026

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

A Bernini Painting Spent 37 Years Hidden in a Museum Storeroom
By Martin Bailey · The Art Newspaper

The Kunsthistorisches Museum's Portrait of an Old Man sat unattributed in storage since 1989. Curator Gudrun Swoboda now argues its sculptural brushwork and facial modeling point to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of fewer than twenty paintings ever authenticated to the Baroque master.

Design

A SoHo Skincare Flagship Is Built Like a Rippling Wooden Valley — Design Milk
A Stack of Concrete Cubes Extends a Historic Lisbon School — Dezeen
The Hidden Artistry of Storefront Awnings, Reimagined as Sculpture — PRINT Magazine
A Bent Plywood Desk Puts Your Monitor High and Your Hands Low — Yanko Design

Arts & Culture

Does the World's First AI Art Museum Make Its Case? — Frieze
A New Artist Book Turns LongHouse Reserve Into a Field of Daydreams — Whitewall
Restorers Bring Back the Soldier Erased From a 17th-Century Dutch Painting — My Modern Met
Vanessa German's Sculptures Reclaim the Story of a Reform School's 'Midnight Girls Club' — Sculpture Magazine

Sound

L'Rain's fata morgana Extends Black Music's Psychedelic Turn — Beats Per Minute
How One Woman's Maine Venue Built a Hardcore Scene From Scratch — Decibel Magazine
Cate Le Bon on Staying Porous as a Producer for Wilco and Devendra Banhart — Tape Op
Blood Brothers' Members Regroup as Evil Island, With Guy Picciotto in Tow — PopMatters

Collecting

If You Could Own Just Two Watches, Which Would You Choose? — Fratello Watches
Unlocking the Secrets of Mego's 1980 Pocket Superheroes Batcave — Mego Museum
A Look Inside Matchbox's Third Collectors Batch of 2026 — Lamley Group
A Collector's Cache of Vintage 1932 Eclipse Viewers — Present & Correct

Document

The Delicate Work of Conserving an 18th-Century French Snuffbox — V&A Blog
The Ninth-Century Forgery That Reshaped the Medieval Papacy — History Today
How Hannibal's 37 War Elephants Determined His Route Through the Alps — Nautilus
Knossos, the Bronze Age Palace That Was Mostly One Man's Guess — Atlas Obscura

Film

Ten Entry Points Into the Mind-Bending Films of Adam Curtis — The Quietus
How an Olympic Mascot Souvenir Order Inspired a Filipino Cult Classic — Criterion
Five Frames From the Solar Eclipse, Shot on a Zeiss Loxia Lens — 35mmc
'Noble, Upstanding, Nauseating Liquids': A Filmmaker on Alcoholism and The Lost Weekend — Talkhouse Film

Signal, August 19, 2026

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Nakagin Capsule Tower and the Dream of a Home That Could Change
By Thomai Tsimpou · Designboom

Kisho Kurokawa's 1972 Metabolist icon promised residents capsules they could swap out as their needs changed. Ownership disputes and failing infrastructure meant none ever were. The tower came down in 2022, its capsules scattered to museums around the world.

Design

3 Brothers Finally Solved the LEGO Mess for £1,850 — Yanko Design
Álvarez Arquitectos Lifts a Costa Rica House Into the Dry-Forest Canopy — ArchEyes
Studio Papaya Makes a Small Apartment Feel Surprisingly Spacious — Design Milk
Vancouver's New Timber Tower Wears Its Low-Carbon Structure on the Outside — Azure Magazine

Arts & Culture

How to Paint a Legend: Tomokazu Matsuyama on His Portrait of Ms. Lauryn Hill — Elephant Magazine
How a Texas Frame Shop Turned Itself Into a Career Springboard for Artists — Southwest Contemporary
Wood Carver Forrest Hudes Finds Strength in Beauty, One Pickleball Paddle at a Time — Sixty Inches From Center
'Hands Are the Protagonist': Stefhany Y Lozano Paints With Fingers and Gestures — Creative Boom

Sound

100 Songs Trace a Century of London's Musical History — Rough Trade
Five Performances That Defined Sicily's Ypsigrock Festival — Crack Magazine
How Mariah Carey Turned Seventeen Demo Tracks Into Stardom — Wax Poetics
Rush's 'Fifty-Something' Tour Is a Three-Hour Tribute to Neil Peart — PopMatters

Collecting

How Pokémon Stickers Carry On a Century of Collecting Culture — Museum of Play
A DIY Workshop for Building Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Fountain Pen — Present & Correct
The Rare 1897 Coin That Solved Martinique's Currency Shortage — Delcampe
The Watches That Won Over Fratello's Collectors, Eventually — Fratello Watches

Document

Five Centuries of Kite Flying, From Manuscripts to Early Photography — Public Domain Review
Gulliver Never Stopped Travelling, Three Centuries After Swift — Engelsberg Ideas
Wherever We Are Gathered: Inside Harlem's Short-Lived Black Arts School — Cabinet Magazine
The Bitter 1962 Feud Between C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis Over Science and Literature — Aeon

Film

Anne Hathaway Has Quietly Become the Definitive Actress of Millennials — Little White Lies
Fifty Cameras in the Dark: How the First Atomic Bomb Was Photographed — Fstoppers
Ana Casas Broda on Three Decades of Photographing Motherhood and Memory — Lenscratch
The Battle of Algiers at 60: How Pontecorvo Humanized Both Sides of a War — Senses of Cinema

Signal, August 18, 2026

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Georgia O'Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
By Maria Popova · The Marginalian

O'Keeffe explains why she painted her flowers so large: to force viewers to stop and truly look, rather than settle for the sexual reading critics kept projecting onto her work. As she put it, nobody really sees a flower.

Design

How Bedouin Tent Design Principles Are Reshaping Gulf Infrastructure — ArchDaily
A Tennessee Resort's New Branding Chooses Quiet Elegance Over Shouting — BP&O
César Pelli's Last Building Finally Gives Lola Mora's Sculptures a Home — Surface Magazine
Designer Luca Ricci Turns Optical Illusion Into Furniture — Yatzer

Arts & Culture

Artist Rain Chan Finds Material for Art in Bureaucracy Itself — Cultbytes
Julie Green Spent Years Painting the Last Meals of Death Row Inmates — Colossal
An Artist Recreated Hokusai's Great Wave Using 750,000 Dahlias — Spoon & Tamago
Mary Heilmann, Painter of Irreverent Abstractions, Dies at 86 — Hyperallergic

Sound

Nina Winder-Lind's Wild Love Is a Guitar-Led Search for Self — Aquarium Drunkard
Inside Colectivo Casa Amarela, the Label Building a New Music Scene in Portugal — Bandcamp Daily
Watch Yusuke Yukimatsu DJ a Technics Set Atop Tokyo Tower — Resident Advisor
Charli XCX's Lollapalooza Set Was a Career-Defining Triumph — Consequence

Collecting

A New Picture Book Cracks Open London Homes to Reveal What Collectors Hoard — It's Nice That
This Week in Watches: An Eclipse MoonSwatch and IWC's Mercedes Tribute — Revolution
This Week's Best Vintage Toy Finds on eBay — Plaid Stallions
How a Designer's Dream Became the Board Game Sequence — Toy Tales

Document

The Teenage Spy Who Succeeded Where Nathan Hale Failed — Smithsonian Magazine
Inside Ancient Rome's Neighborhood of Immigrants — JSTOR Daily
Cataloging a Century of British Photography History — V&A Blog
Why Wooden Stupas Vanished From History — Res Obscura

Film

Ten Films That Show How William Greaves Broke Documentary's Rules — Sight and Sound
Catherine Opie on Three Decades of Teaching Photography — Aperture
A Century of American Photography Goes on View in London — Wallpaper*
Filmmakers Spent Four Years Following a Lion's Journey to Become King — PetaPixel