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2 weeks ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
Giulia Cenci creates sculptural beings struggling into and out of life. Like feral beasts, they can be thin and sinewy. Like livestock, they can be plump, dismembered and displayed like taxidermy. More and more, Cenci places her creatures in silvery environments, in relationship to other pseudo-lifeforms, suspended in grids of cold metal.
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1 month ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
My new album, Themes Vol, 1 is out on Bandcamp, Apple music or Spotify. In the golden era of rock and roll, originality was the only true goal for an honorable musician. But now, when the Beatles have lost their dominance over pop, the few bands that still thrive seem compelled to retell the story of music, to keep the tradition alive. For them, the illusion of reinvention is just a frivolous obsession, and the true aim is simply to produce great music.
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1 month ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
Tala Madani’s paintings depict a universe of splendid transgressions. A brood of babies feasts on a mother made of crap. A toddler wields a penis the size of a go-kart. A man is levitated by the power of his own glowing ejaculate. It’s a funny, horrifying and often hypermasculine place, animated by the mythic logic of the subconscious. To suit her subject, Madani depicts many of these activities in the dark, lit dramatically by flashlights and projectors, as if they were scenes in some sordid farce.
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2 months ago | 
rosssimonini.substack.com | Ross Simonini
The only objects I’ve ever collected are books about the German artist, Joseph Beuys. Monographs, interviews, biographies, criticism. Usually, I look at art books for the pictures but I’ve read all my Beuys books, cover to cover, and somehow I still remain mystified by both the art and artist. This is what keeps me engaged in a lifelong study of his work.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Natasha Stagg |Meka Boyle |Ann Binlot |Ross Simonini
On a Sex and the City tour, part of a friend’s New York-themed birthday week itinerary, I am now the same age as Carrie Bradshaw in the show’s final season (2004), but it is 20 years later.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Natasha Stagg |Ann Binlot |Ross Simonini
Andrew J. Greene is holding a “Yes or No” coin in his hand as he leans forward on a leather chair in his bungalow-turned-studio in central Los Angeles. Vintage scales line his mantle, old fortunes are clipped to a note-card tree, and two early ‘90s novelty talking characters—the Yes Man and Whipping Boy—stand by ready to be turned on and either belt out affirmations or take the blame. Choices are abundant, but the artist doesn’t offer answers.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini |Chloe Grace-Press
Winter 2024 Art CommissionsFebruary 14, 2025 8:00 AMThere is a private, far away world that artists return to time and time again. Its parameters, molded in childhood and chiseled away in practice. Like the natural landscape, it is always shifting, eroding, and regenerating anew. We can see it, too, eyes closed: a snow capped mountain, an ancient organism, our body, cosmic. Eyes open, gaze fixed, it is a coil on a vine, a statue, light streaming from a window.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini
The best spring rolls are handmade, according to Kemio. Whenever the Japanese Internet sensation returns to Japan to visit his family, he looks forward to his grandmother’s signature variety, packed with ground pork, bean sprouts, and garlic chives, and wrapped in rice paper. “She waits for me to arrive with the spring rolls ready,” he tells Family Style.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini |Natasha Stagg |Ann Binlot
When I studied music composition at the University of California in the 2000s, a new wave of contemporary classical music was on the rise. Max Richter and Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson were at the crest of this wave, and I could sense the students around me wrestling with the influence of their sweeping, minimalist atmospheres. For us, this music created a fresh, liminal space between the atonal music of the academy and the ambient experiments of post-rock.
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2 months ago | 
family.style | Ross Simonini
Risotto is more than just rice—it's a dish loaded with flavor, and memory too. For Jelka von Langen, nothing beats her father’s version with mushrooms and parsley, topped with Parmesan cheese, garlic, and white vermouth. It has personal history, too: “My father grew up in Ticino, Switzerland,” the photographer tells Family Style.
