| 1. Who We Are Now “The questions of how we have changed will be with us in the months, and years, ahead. The process of reflection is just beginning. Where it takes us remains to be seen.” 2. A New ‘Denim Cycle’? After a Decade, Jeans Move From Skinny to Loose “On a recent earnings call, executives for Levi Strauss & Co. said sales trends showed that loose, even baggy, jeans for women and men were booming and poised to become a hallmark of our post-pandemic world.” 3. The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said “In an era of professional specialists and self-declared experts, Said doggedly praised the amateur, the humanist who endeavored not to make audiences feel good but to be a nonconformist, embarrassing and roguish when it mattered. He stood for the relevance of the humanities in directly addressing the ethical and political concerns of our time and taught us to pay heed to what was omitted from narratives, to the strain ‘between what is represented and what isn’t represented, between the articulate and the silent.’” 4. Talk: Adam McKay “There are a lot of things that most of us think are boring that are actually exciting.” 5. How to Hang Your Laundry “[He] has repeatedly timed himself and estimates that hanging a load of laundry takes about eight minutes longer than putting it in the dryer.” 6. The Woman Who Made van Gogh “The brothers’ dying so young, Vincent at 37 and Theo at 33, and without the artist having achieved renown — Theo had managed to sell only a few of his paintings — would seem to have ensured that Vincent van Gogh’s work would subsist eternally in a netherworld of obscurity. Instead, his name, art and story merged to form the basis of an industry that stormed the globe, arguably surpassing the fame of any other artist in history. That happened in large part thanks to Jo van Gogh-Bonger. She was small in stature and riddled with self-doubt, had no background in art or business and faced an art world that was a thoroughly male preserve. Her full story has only recently been uncovered. It is only now that we know how van Gogh became van Gogh.” 7. How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves “The myth of the solitary creative genius dies hard, and yet the story of Western art and letters is largely told in schools, groups and movements. From the Impressionists to the Harlem Renaissance, Fluxus to the Hairy Who, the L.A. Rebellion to Act Up, our aesthetic history is founded on shared sensibilities and inside jokes, on heated debates over dinner parties, on the common desire to burn down the house of our elders.”
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