In Osaka right now, you can put on a headset and walk around Ryuichi Sakamoto as he plays — three years after he died. It is the most unsettling, most beautiful question anyone has asked about what an artist leaves behind.
The city is disgusting in July. That's when it's best. A field guide to doing a New York summer the right way — which is to say, the late way.
The city reinvents its nightlife every few years and buries the last version without ceremony. Here's where it's actually happening now — not the longest list, the right one.
Adrian Chiarella — 'Leviticus' — film
Curry Barker — 'Obsession' — film
Ryuichi Sakamoto spent his life dissolving the borders everyone else was busy defending. A 1989 reissue is a good excuse to admit he was right about all of it.
Nan Goldin's life's work — the intimate, dangerous, tender pictures she created — invented the way we see ourselves. Everything this magazine cares about, she photographed first.
Connor Storrie, Saint Laurent's newest disciple, wore the thigh-high leather boots the internet has been losing its mind over. We understand completely.
While every other house chases the next viral three seconds, Anthony Vaccarello has spent a decade at Saint Laurent proving the oldest, dirtiest secret in fashion: the most erotic thing you can do is not show it.
Tom Ford hasn't directed a film in ten years. He's ending the silence with castrati, betrayal, and Adele — an 18th-century Italian opera drama that might be the most Kovert film ever greenlit.
Twenty years after the first Confessions, the Queen of Pop is holding the door open again. Confessions II isn't nostalgia — it's an argument about the last place we're still free.
Madonna — 'Confessions II – The Film' — film
Madonna and Charli XCX made the two most talked-about visuals of 2026. They hired the same directors. And both are really about the same thing: who you put in the room.
Cole Escola's Oh, Mary! turned Mary Todd Lincoln into the most radical role on Broadway — a queer-camp relay now worn by Meg Stalter.
Charli XCX — 'Music, Fashion, Film' — album
Every editor tries on the Anna Wintour hat. Mine slipped — and something sharper, darker, and far more dangerous was waiting underneath.
The only person who was ever in charge of Kim Petras is Kim Petras. It took the machine seven years and one Grammy to teach her that twice.
Nightclubs are closing at a rate that ends them by decade's end. So why does the dance floor feel more alive than it has in years? Because the part that's dying and the part that's winning were never the same thing.
The Q is gone, and the way it ended should stay with us. Two men left Hell's Kitchen gay bars and never made it home. This is about what we owe each other in the dark.