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All the versions of ourselves (opens the original)
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It’s a Lance Oppenheim fall (and I’m here for it) (opens the original)
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Do you ever see something and believe it was purposefully made with you in mind? That moment where you stumble across something and find that somehow, someone you’ve never met has managed to encapsulate multiple different elements of the things you love and are interested in, and compiled it into something that you hadn’t even thought of yourself.If you have never experienced this phenomenon before you might consider the above to be a dramatic opening, but it feels as though it is the only way I
Turning twenty-three in front of a Rothko (opens the original)
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‘[Michelangelo] achieved just the kind of feeling I’m after – he makes the viewers feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up, so that all they can do is butt their heads forever against the wall’ - Mark RothkoWhat were you doing at 23? The above is a question I picture my future children asking me one day, as I did to my parents last week before I set off to Florence to celebrate my birthday. My mum worked for a Japanese export company and my dad had a m
How a single cello in The Invite sent my nervous system into overdrive (opens the original)
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This newsletter contains mild spoilers for The InviteLast Friday I finally had a chance to go and see Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, a film I have been excited to watch since buzzy reviews quickly emerged following its debut at Sundance. It also helped that Brighton’s Duke of York’s cinema has functioning air conditioning, which provided much needed relief on that sweltering evening.The film met my high expectations effortlessly, although admittedly I had little doubts that a cast which included Edw
Everything that inspired me last week #4 (opens the original)
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