W. David Marx

Huge congrats also to Stanley Kubrick for his 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" finally getting some 2023 recognition

For my newsletter this week, I wrote about Natasha Degen's excellent new book "Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol" — about how the fashion industry took over the artworld institution in the last fifty years and how that's changed art

Interesting piece by @connorshepherd about how this new wave of AI is so instantly competitive that it's more likely to reduce margins than to create trillionaires

Truly excellent, well-researched piece by @graziemana that uses plastic surgery to lay out in detail how status dynamics create new facial aesthetics, which then diffuse like any fashion trend from distinctive to ubiquitous to "vulgar."