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August 6, 2026·Edition 41

Who sank the Great Pyramid?

Internet Microdoses

A new clothing line makes you invisible to AI. Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage reads as an abstract print to you and pure static to a person-detection algorithm. Dress for the surveillance you’re having.

Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has a date: December 11, twenty years after it was announced. It will open on Saadiyat Island, where they’ve also opened a new branch of the Louvre. Abu Dhabi is collecting famous museums the way the rest of us hoard tote bags.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day already made $932M, the second-biggest opening weekend ever. Everyone’s saying superhero movies are over and it’s all about auteur horror… which begs the question: is Marvel now an underdog?

The Met is giving John Galliano a retrospective, only its third for a living designer after Saint Laurent and Comme Des Garçon. “Horizons” promises the warts and all, including the 2011 disgrace that got him fired from Dior. Genius and downfall, all on full display.

Game of Thrones is getting a Royal Shakespeare Company play. The Mad King is a Westeros prequel staged in Stratford, the most prestigious address in theater — though it scrapped its first previews with hours’ notice and no explanation. A show about backroom scheming has its own behind-the-scenes drama.

Google pulled its new Google Earth AI tool in 48 hours. It let anyone paste text-prompt fictions onto real satellite maps — so naturally, someone collapsed the Eiffel Tower and sank the Great Pyramid. Google’s building stronger guardrails, but they should still keep the chaos map online.

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Aesthetic Study

Cloud Cover

This year, the fog is outlasting every season. Saint Laurent sent its Summer 2027 menswear through a wall of white mist in June, models surfacing and vanishing for sixteen minutes, the shoes fogging up as they walked. The cloud was rented from Fujiko Nakaya, who at 93 is still making weather — this year she also flooded Tadao Ando’s concrete cylinder at the Bourse de Commerce until you couldn’t see the person three feet ahead of you. She’s been at it since 1970, when she wrapped the Pepsi Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair in the first walkable fog. She called it a negative sculpture, shaped by the wind.

Now the fog won’t lift. Berndnaut Smilde’s indoor clouds last about ten seconds before they fall apart. A.A.Murakami grew mist-filled bubbles out of a monolith for BMW, the disappearing being the point. Iris van Herpen keeps an algae gown alive under glass by misting it. Even Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest tone-poem Her Private Hellsees a mist roll over the city and bring death within. Why the fog now? Is it weather panic, a push back against crystal-clear HD, or something else? Whatever the case, we can’t see a thing.

  • Fujiko Nakaya fills Tadao Ando’s rotunda with fog
  • Saint Laurent’s Summer 2027 menswear emerges from the fog
  • Berndnaut Smilde conjures fleeting nimbus clouds indoors
  • Mist-filled bubbles grow at Art Basel
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August 4, 2026·Interview

Richie Talboy

The photographer behind fashion’s most surreal shoots on inventing an alter ego, and chasing teen stardom before he ever picked up a camera.

Richie Talboy
Richie Talboy

A moment with

Richie Talboy

The photographer behind fashion’s most surreal shoots on inventing an alter ego, and chasing teen stardom before he ever picked up a camera.

Richie Talboy shoots the kind of images that don’t obey reality — surreal, cinematic, a little chaotic. Just look at his recent shoots: Amanda Seyfried for British GQ, Role Model for VMan, Emily Ratajkowski for NY Mag. Two years ago he moved to LA, which dredged up a buried memory: at fifteen he’d come there for a talent competition, chasing teen TV stardom, before he dropped it for a camera. Lately he’s been living in the version where he’s turning automatic sketches into photographs and automatic writing into a novella and inventing a character along the way: himself. Here he gets into his alter ego and the life that brought it back.

Three places you’ve felt inspired by.

Idaho of course, Los Angeles, and Burbank. There's this strip club in Chicago with a lit dancefloor that feels like such a movie set.

What can't you stop thinking about?

A lot of my latest work has been dealing with fame, specifically how much shame and embarrassment one has to go through to achieve it. I think there’s a lot of tension between public humiliation and public admiration, and a clear pipeline between the two. The road to fame is littered with embarrassment at every turn. Public humiliation is kind of the only path into it – degrading oneself for the entertainment of others until ultimately they remember and recognize you and give you a chance to create something that lasts. You have to be annoying. Cringe.

Who is your forever inspo?

Miles Aldridge

What’s an item you can’t live without?

My sketchbook.

Write us a fortune cookie message.

Be cringe. Be free.

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Object Love

Riban Vase

Riban Vase

The Riban has the round, sugar-glazed heft of a hard candy — cream glass, a thick rolled lip, four dark stripes pulled down the belly by hand and widening as it swells. Ferm Living blew it after exactly that: the striped sweets confectioners used to pull while the batch ran hot. The Copenhagen house has been at this since 2006, when Trine Andersen went looking for the right wallpaper, couldn’t find it, and started a company instead.

There’s something knowing in casting a sweet in glass — fixing the most perishable thing there is in the one material built to outlast the room. The stripes read as pure decoration until you clock what they are: a record of the hand that pulled them, faster than thought, before the glass set. Fill it and they disappear behind the stems. Leave it empty and you’ve got a candy the size of a lamp, sugar frozen mid-pull. A sweet treat at only $49.

Quick Hits

  • Christie’s is auctioning a Durand-Ruel Monet.
  • Nike made a slide that heats and vibrates your feet.
  • A24 mapped 179 NYC movie locations into a book.
  • One of Zaha Hadid’s last designs is finally done, a decade on.
  • Zendaya is the new face of Prada Paradoxe.

Fogging up,

Tania