Donald Trump

All photos by Natasha Stagg

OUT OF STATE

NATASHA STAGG’S third column focuses on speech acts, and the elected officials who seem incapable of delivering them with any eloquence. As the US just celebrated the 4th of July, maybe the fireworks will do a better job of speaking for New Yorkers than the old dudes behind a podium.

People

Photo: Deborah Turbeille for Vogue (May 1975)

Photo: Deborah Turbeille for Vogue (May 1975)

Out of State

A Summer Chronicle, part 4: Natasha Stagg on castings, consultancies and Cody Critcheloe

Discourse

Chiho Aoshima
City Glow, 2005

The Downward Spiral

In this month’s column, Dean Kissick looks at Superflat America, the rise of hikikomori and their connections to alt-right meme culture.

Discourse

Fiddling While Rome Burns

Toke Lykkeberg on the suspension of art in a state of emergency

Discourse

The Downward Spiral

In his monthly column, Dean Kissick examines the culture of a collapsing society.

Discourse

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7 reasons Vetements is the bastard attire of a broken generation, or am I just depressed?

A nihilist’s guide to the unbelievable success of the young European fashion label

Discourse

Still from Rihanna’s intentionally controversial video “BBHMM”

Still from Rihanna’s intentionally controversial video “BBHMM”

Summer Camp

From Donald Trump to Rihanna, True Detective, and 50 Cent: this summer a new theatricality has become evident in American culture. The congruence of camp and violence has given us Young Thug, a rapper who calls his guns “dicks” for reasons nobody knows.