Requiem for a “Drunk Dad”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new pictures by Jeff Bark beg to be psychoanalyzed. The sixty-one-year-old photographer spent decades shuffling between making commercial images and more gallery-specific fare, honing a style of louche, opulent staged…

Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. For many years, the term Afrobeats,…

Émilie Bouge joins Takasago as Senior Perfumer in Paris

Ex-Robertet Émilie Bouge has joined perfumers house Takasago this April as Senior Perfumer in Paris. Born into a Grasse family with a rich perfumery heritage dating back two centuries, Émilie Bouge was trained at the ISIPCA in Versailles, France, and…

Mistaking Mary Magdalene

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics…