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March 24, 2026·Edition 17

Sora dies. Dalí lives. The dynasties talk.

Internet Microdoses

OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generator, putting an end to Disney’s $1 billion deal. Could this be the end of the slop era? Those endlessly viral erotic soap operas about pregnant fruit characters suggest maybe not.

Estée Lauder and Puig consider $40 billion merger, which if passed would put Le Labo, Tom Ford, and Kilian under the same roof as Byredo, Charlotte Tilbury, and Jean Paul Gaultier. Both companies are family-controlled, which makes this less corporate takeover and more arranged marriage between dynasties.

Jordan Wolfson directed Prada’s new campaign, casting Hunter Schafer alongside CGI birds that loom over her like sleep paralysis demons. Prada called it “multiplicities of identity,” while the internet was divided: Were the creatures AI? Does it matter? Is it good? Is it bad? With questions like these, it was certainly a success.

Meta and YouTube found guilty of addicting children in a landmark trial with a $6 million verdict. Look for many more suits to follow. If social media is the new nicotine, they could be facing a Big Tobacco-sized problem in court.

Off-White launches 10x10, handing the brand to 10 collaborators — Kid Cudi on sneakers, ASAP Nast on objects, Renell Medrano on eyewear, Stéphane Ashpool on varsity — each releasing their own capsule through April 2027. Three years after Virgil Abloh’s death, the brand is finally answering the question: do you preserve the voice or open the door? Off-White chose the door.

Dave Eggers transformed an SF warehouse into a free art school. The 100,000 square-foot building is now called Art + Water and will open this fall with 30 artists, a first show devoted to Boots Riley, and, most notably, no tuition. A happy arrival as the California College of the Arts shutters next year.

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Aesthetic Study

New Medieval

The medieval period was defined by tension between precarity and transcendence — plagues, collapsing empires, and extreme wealth gaps answered with stained glass, gilded reliquaries, and obsessive craft. That same impulse is running through design right now, and it’s been one of the top search terms on Cosmos. Mondo Mondo’s garnet-and-gold jewelry looks like it was pulled from an Anglo-Saxon burial site. Rooms Studio’s talisman mirrors lift their silhouettes from Georgian Orthodox icons. Panorammma rebuilt a 1952 Katavolos chair in hand-linked chainmail. Interiors follow suit: forged metalwork over clean lines, Flemish-style tapestries over gallery white, dark wood and jewel tones over Scandinavian restraint. The throughline runs from Byzantine basilicas through Romanesque carved capitals and Flemish altarpieces — eventually landing in a Brooklyn brownstone with a pilgrim badge pinned to a lapel.

But the version taking hold now collapses the whole timeline — Gothic plus folk plus early Renaissance, flattened into a single room. It’s not nostalgia for the Dark Ages. It’s hope that the things built to outlast empires might outlast algorithms too.

  • Teenage Engineering built a synth that plays dragon roars
  • Vogue says the “monastic aesthetic” is a major 2026 interiors trend
  • Architectural Digest profiles “Middle Ages Modern.”
  • Elle explores the “Weird Medieval” fashion trend
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March 24, 2026·Interview

Andy Dixon

The former punk musician whose pastel canvases probe the tension between fine art and luxury, from Versace to museum walls worldwide.

Andy Dixon
Andy Dixon

A moment with

Andy Dixon

The former punk musician whose pastel canvases probe the tension between fine art and luxury, from Versace to museum walls worldwide.

Andy Dixon is a Los Angeles–based painter whose pastel-hued canvases explore the ironic tension between fine art and luxury. A former punk musician from Vancouver, Dixon pivoted to painting and has since shown solo with The Hole in New York and L.A. and Over The Influence across Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Paris. His collaboration with Versace at Milan’s Salone del Mobile turned his oversized painted shirts into wallpaper across the Versace palazzo, and a large-scale painting now hangs in the Jacques Marie Mage gallery in London. His Silver Lake home was profiled by Architectural Digest, and his work sits in the collections of Crystal Bridges Museum and Beijing’s X Museum. Next up: pieces in the group show Dreaming in Colour at Opera Gallery London and a new collab with Jacques Marie Mage at Harrods.

What do you do when you hit a creative block?

I find the best inspiration comes from life lived. If I’m feeling uninspired, I’ll turn that part of my brain off and go out to the bar with friends, find a party, go the beach. It’s like trying to come up with a band name… instead of sitting there trying to think of cool sounding words, you’re better off trying not to think about it and letting it come to you.

What’s the worst recommendation someone’s given you?

I once had a studio visitor tell me that while paintings might function as luxury commodities, it’s not something an artist should say out loud. Which, of course, is exactly why I do.

What book have you gifted most?

Maybe Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, or The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

What’s something you bought under $100 that changed your life?

A bougainvillea that I planted in my front yard and am currently obsessed with tending to.

Where do you go to find peace?

The ocean, splashing around the waves.

Who is your forever inspo?

John Waters

What’s the last article you sent to a friend?

“Sure, I’ll check out Primus” Says Person on Worst Date of Their Life from The Hard Times

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Object Love

Cut-Steel Chatelaine

Cut-Steel Chatelaine

This cut-steel chatelaine, made in France around 1800 and now at the V&A, hangs on a decorative clasp — a cluster of chains and tools swaying at the hip, each steel rivet hand-faceted to catch light like a diamond. The word châtelaine translates roughly to “lady of the castle,” and the name stuck because the original version was a key ring: whoever held it controlled every lock in the house. By the 19th century, the keys had been swapped for personal tools, but the implication remained. This is for the woman who runs things.

From its chains hang scissors, a scent flask, a magnifying glass, a thimble, a notebook, and a needle case — every small task of domestic life given its own chain. We can almost think of these items like apps, and the chatelaine a primitive smart phone: keep everything you need within reach at all times. The difference is the chatelaine didn’t hide these things in a pocket. Instead, utility lived on full display.

Quick Hits

  • Givenchy’s Matthew M. Williams steps up at Oakley.
  • Cuddle up in United Airlines’ new “Relax Row.”
  • NASA is building a permanent moon base.
  • Sharks in the Bahamas test positive for cocaine.
  • Uniqlo just bought the naming rights to Dodger Stadium.

See you on the moon,

Tania