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From pop royalty to raw Americana: ‘Michael’, ‘The New West’ and ‘Die, My Love’ – arts24

From pop royalty to raw Americana: ‘Michael’, ‘The New West’ and ‘Die, My Love’ – arts24

Published by Sam Flores

This week’s film show on arts24 spotlights a trio of strikingly different releases, led by Antoine Fuqua’s highly anticipated biopic “Michael”, which features a breakout performance from nephew Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, alongside Colman Domingo’s chilling turn as patriarch Joseph Jackson. The conversation then shifts to Kate Beecroft’s Sundance-winning debut “The New West”, a moving docu-fiction starring real-life rancher Tabatha Zimiga with Scoot McNairy and Jennifer Ehle, which captures the quiet struggles of rural America. Rounding out the highlights is Lynne Ramsay’s intense Cannes contender “Die, My Love”, where Jennifer Lawrence delivers a powerhouse performance opposite Robert Pattinson in a raw and unsettling portrait of love, isolation and mental health. Together, these films bring star power, controversy and deeply human storytelling to the big screen. Source link

Putin Will Miss Pax Americana

Putin Will Miss Pax Americana

Published by José Betancourt

For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the world that the United States built after the Cold War. In his account, an international order run by a single power would hinder Russia and produce needless conflict, especially when that power was as self-serving and duplicitous as America. Now Donald Trump is dismantling the order that Putin had so long abhorred, and a new multipolar world is emerging in its place. Putin had thought he could rise to the top of such a system, in which raw economic and military might outweigh diplomacy and alliances. But he was mistaken: The norms and institutions of the postwar order actually masked Russia’s vulnerabilities. Putin has gotten the world he wished for—and it’s threatening to crush him. Moscow had assumed that its immense nuclear arsenal, unparalleled natural resources, and extensive territory in the heart of Eurasia would keep Russia competitive with China and the United States. But these assets have been unable to slow its rapid decline. Russia’s economy is at best one-quarter the size of China’s and …

A God-Tier Americana Collector Shares His Trove of Vintage Field Watches

A God-Tier Americana Collector Shares His Trove of Vintage Field Watches

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. It’s currently being manned by Jeremy Freed, watch writer extraordinaire, while Cam is on parental leave. Sign up here. If there is such a thing as a collector’s gene, Evan Morrison definitely has it. His office in Greensboro, NC, contains a museum’s worth of accumulated treasure ranging from antique industrial sewing equipment to WWII flight jackets to vintage bourbon. A former vintage clothing picker with a passion for classic Americana, Morrison is the proprietor of Hudson’s Hill, a Greensboro-based retailer of American-made clothing, and the co-founder of the White Oak Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the legacy of Greensboro’s legendary Cone White Oak denim mill. He’s also one of the country’s foremost experts on Draper shuttle looms, which he uses to weave selvedge denim for Greensboro’s Proximity Manufacturing Company. Given Morrison’s proclivity for vintage clothes and machinery, as well as his tendency to go full Pokémon on his areas of interest, it shouldn’t …

5 Best Ralph Lauren Colognes of 2026 Are as Americana as It Gets

5 Best Ralph Lauren Colognes of 2026 Are as Americana as It Gets

Published by Jenni Sidey

Few brands are able to get a menswear bro’s blood pumping like Ralph Lauren. The quintessential American brand is beloved for its take on collegiate staples and vintage US workwear, all the while being approachable for those with a tight budget. Outside of its enviable (and highly sought after) garms, the brand knows how to concoct a men’s fragrance. The best Ralph Lauren colognes are sort of like the cherry on top of a signature RL outfit. Going for date night? There’s a Ralph scent for that? A quick trip to town? Of course Ralph knows what you’d want to smell like for that. Here’s how all of Ralph’s top fragrances stack up, and which ones you’ll want to add to your current scent lineup. (Hint: It’s all of them.) The Best Ralph Lauren Colognes The Woodsy Pick Polo Ralph Lauren Polo Eau de Toilette Read More The Spicy Pick Polo Ralph Lauren Polo Red Parfum Read More The Date Night Pick Polo Ralph Lauren Ralph’s Club New York Eau de Parfum Read More The …

There Are Such Raw Fears in a New Relationship

There Are Such Raw Fears in a New Relationship

Published by Jenni Sidey

Photo by author, October 2025, Ashtabula, Ohio This article was formed from “Democracy as Relationship” published on the now defunct site e-flux conversations in 2017 as a response to a series of critical essays. See part I from last month. There is no “public opinion” Relationships are characterized by an interior infinity which opens the life one shares to agency and creativity of a homely sort. They are the opposite of what one nineteenth-century writer called “the despair of finitude,” in which we cannot see each other beyond the grid of roles, advantages, and subjections that try to keep everything in their place, all lockstep. The despair of finitude characterizes much writing on politics now, under the guise of one of many cynicisms or in stratagems of “us against them.” But being in touch with each other appears within ordinary life to provide a dignity to what we know is ordinary between us and so is other than, a break from, the world of objects and subjections, which is, in any case, not a democratic …