Rebecca Mead

London

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Staff writer @NewYorker; author of HOME/LAND and MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH

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Jenny Saville, the Body Artist

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

In March, an exhibition of works by Jenny Saville, the British artist known for her large-scale figurative paintings, went on display at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna. The day before the opening, Saville visited the galleries to inspect the completed hang. The show, titled “Gaze,” included several works in which Saville had sought to explore the fractured experience of life in the digital era.
Jenny Saville, the Body Artist

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Rebecca Mead

1 hour agoVisiting a corporate museum might not sound like Tokyo’s most compelling tourist activity. But in this instance, I would be inclined to disagree. For any beauty lover – or those with an interest in photography, graphic design, architecture, art direction or fashion, for that matter – Shiseido’s …
Jonathan Anderson’s Confidence and Ambition

Mar 18, 2025 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

In today’s newsletter, Rebecca Mead with a deeply reported portrait of Jonathan Anderson, the creative director who just announced his departure from the luxury brand Loewe. And then, E. Tammy Kim looks at the DOGE cuts that could harm military servicemembers, in her latest installment of the Deep State Diaries.
What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next?

Mar 17, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Rebecca Mead

Meeting him at the Prado made good sense, though. Anderson is a serious collector of ceramics and paintings, and he is also a patron of the arts: he inaugurated the now annual Loewe Craft Prize and is on the board of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.
What Will Jonathan Anderson Transform Next?

Mar 17, 2025 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

In one of the grandest galleries of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, two large canvases are displayed alongside each other—an “Adam and Eve” painted by Titian, around 1550, and another rendering of the subject by Peter Paul Rubens, made eight decades later. In both, a shaggy-haired Adam, seated on the left, extends an arm in a futile attempt to prevent an intoxicated-looking Eve from plucking a shiny apple from the Tree of Knowledge, in which a serpentlike creature lurks.
Amelia Dimoldenberg Flirts with Celebrity on “Chicken Shop Date”

Feb 24, 2025 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

“Come on, we can own that it’s been vibey,” Garfield said. “It’s been vibey to the point where you’ve been avoiding me for two years, because the vibes were too much for you to handle,” Dimoldenberg shot back, in undermining-girl-boss mode. The ensuing ten-minute battle of wits had a screwball energy that Preston Sturges would have appreciated. “I’m not going to be who you want me to be in this moment,” Dimoldenberg offered.
How the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade

Dec 8, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

On Christmas Day in 1872, the atmosphere was restive among the forty female residents of a medical institution on the outskirts of St. Louis. The women were patients, not prisoners, so they wondered why they were obliged to spend the holiday as they would any other day: confined to their wards, knitting or chatting, without music or revelry of any kind.
The Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with Anime

Nov 10, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

After sitting for a while in contemplation, Fadojutimi gathered herself to paint. “Marty, would you pick me a color?” she asked. He leaped up and threw a nitrile glove at a shelf of paints to make a random choice. It hit a shade of blue, and he started preparing a dish of the color.
The Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with Anime

Nov 10, 2024 | flipboard.com | Rebecca Mead

2 hours ago"Drug-fuelled parties are constantly taking place next door - we're miserable"Fed up locals say their lives are being made miserable by a holiday let - which is constantly being used to host 'drug-fuelled' parties into the early hours. Neighbours say that the situation in Bromley, southeast London, has become “catastrophic” since number 27 was listed online.
A Queen Elizabeth II Bookshelf

Oct 2, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Mead

In today’s newsletter, the V.P. debate. Plus, Rebecca Mead shares her favorite monarchy media. And then:But the matchup came down to Tim Walz’s record in Minnesota versus his opponent’s unfailing defense of Donald Trump. The pressure was on last night to finish first—and J. D. Vance kept a stride ahead of Tim Walz, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes, in his analysis of the V.P. debate.

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Rebecca Mead @Rebeccamead_NYC

15 Jul 22

"A lyrical, often elegiac inquiry into the nature of place and identity"—thank you @jamesbpcook for this wonderful review of HOME/LAND

James Cook @jamesbpcook

My review of @Rebeccamead_NYC 's excellent 'Home/Land' in this week's TLS @TheTLS https://t.co/OM45BSmNMe

Rebecca Mead @Rebeccamead_NYC

4 May 22

Such a pleasure to take part in this conversation about home and wandering @AAKnopf @GrovePressUK

Michelle Jana Chan @michellejchan

THE WANDERING BOOK COLLECTOR podcast welcomes @NewYorker writer @Rebeccamead_NYC on HOME/LAND: A Memoir of Departure and Return — shifting between #NewYork and #London https://t.co/Di7JnLnprD @AKTravel_UK @tumitravel @ultimatelibrary https://t.co/Gr0yQbspY9

Rebecca Mead @Rebeccamead_NYC

30 Mar 22

Delighted it reached you, thank you so much for the kind words (here and on the dust jacket)

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