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There was a time when walking into a shopping mall meant encountering a very specific kind of rebellion. Black walls. Band shirts. Alternative accessories. Punk and goth-inspired fashion. Music that felt different from what was playing in mainstream department stores. Hot Topic understood that environment better than almost anyone. Founded in 1989, the retailer built its identity around music and alternative culture, eventually expanding into cult films, comics, cartoons and other forms of youth culture. The company itself describes …

Walk into a Hot Topic today and the experience can feel very different from the store that defined alternative mall culture in the 1990s. Band T-shirts and dark fashion are …

Subheadline: In Father Country I Do Love You, Taryn Simon transforms the Guggenheim’s iconic Rotunda into an immense narrative system—one that follows a single life across four decades and exposes …

Subheadline: More than 600 original drawings, beloved manga series, and centuries of Japanese visual storytelling transform the Brooklyn Museum into New York’s newest destination for manga culture. Manga has already …

Subheadline: From living ecosystems and biological research to machine intelligence and simulated worlds, a new generation of artists is challenging the idea that the human should remain at the center …

What holds a society together when the structures around it are under pressure? The 2026 Whitney Biennial does not offer a single answer. Instead, it asks viewers to look at …

Some artists chase one big moment. Techin Khurukitwanit, however, has spent the last decade building something slower and sturdier. He paints, illustrates, designs, curates, and teaches. He does it all …

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Ophelia’s Secret: 500-Million-View Triumph

Ophelia’s Secret: How Taylor Swift Turned a Drowned Heroine Into a 500-Million-View Triumph Eight months. One song. Roughly half a billion views. “The Fate of Ophelia” did not just open

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