GEN X-TASY
Generation X came of age in the margins, between analog childhoods and digital futures, cultural neglect and creative autonomy. Raised on MTV, indie records, and the freedom of invisibility, they...
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THE VISIBLE ERA
In the years leading up to World War II, spectacles ceased to be simply corrective instruments and began to shimmer with new possibilities. What began as innovation in plastics and...
ARTs
HOLLYWOOD’S LAST BOHEMIAN
In June of 1968, Dennis Hopper hit the road, setting a course for Taos, a small town nestled in the highlands of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New...
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ONE-OF-ONE
“People say I’m conceited but they must have pity on me. It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” – Muhammad Ali in a 1972 TV...
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HIGH COUNTRY CALLING
For more than a century, the Tetons have drawn climbers into a stark apprenticeship of stone, weather, and will. From disputed first ascents to the disciplined “clean climbing” ethos of...
The Glittering Frontier
The West is more than a region, it’s a spectacle—an idea made of rhinestones and stitched into the mythos of the open road. Before the denim-and-dust minimalism of modern cowboy...
Never Enough Horsepower
The USA changed the globe’s automotive landscape in the 1960s with a roguish, playful, and joyously irresponsible recipe of gasoline, noise, and adrenaline baked into the classic American muscle car....
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Racing’s Genius
There’s one way to tell when a sports star’s success and culture status elevates him or her beyond the competition and into the company of historic legends. In boxing, that’s...
The Terrible Joys Of Enzo Ferrari
A man who transformed racing into both an art and a ruthless obsession, Enzo Ferrari lived for speed and spectacle. He was a driver who preferred command to competition, a...
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The Art Of Deception
In the grand tradition of mythmaking, few twentieth-century partnerships were as brazen—or as culturally enduring—as that of Fernand Legros and Elmyr de Hory. One, a theatrical art dealer with a...
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Under the Spotlight in the Center of the World
HOW 1990S NEW YORK REWROTE THE RULES OF STYLE New York’s cultural pulse is never static. It accelerates, recedes, and then roars back with thrilling urgency. And while each...