Archive
From 2019 to 2023, working with dozens of writers around the world, we produced a weekly newsletter featuring stories on topics ranging from neuroaesthetics, to scented bowling balls, to Japanese Noh theater, to the overview affect. We also interviewed various cultural luminaries, including Roxane Gay, Daniel Humm, Christopher John Rogers, Frances Moore Lappé, and John Pawson. Explore our archive below.
![This Art World Digital Strategist Embraces Clubhouse, Memes, and Catalogues Raisonnés](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/c7651831e8c2eb576eed8cdb8f14025da4bfffbd-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Ford’s New Mach-Eau Cologne Delivers the Scent of Gasoline to E.V. Drivers](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/410afa4f1ede84b12455bf08f49556e54e3212c4-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Stüssy and Tekla’s New Capsule Collection Offers Pared-Down Pieces for Surf and Sleep](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/0463e427a4d0b2effe3823a12e1fd1f60e8f601d-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Meet Keiko Kuroshima, Japan’s First Female Soy Sauce Sommelier](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/6c031ba9e45dc03306aa3e4c6d0bfbbc8e47af2f-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Discreet Speaker Combines Mood-Enhancing Lighting With Superior Sound](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d01126fa9631bfabb89ef70059b7eb32afc32f05-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![New York City’s Newest Taco Spots Offer Enticing, Imaginative Fare](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/cb0f0b5bec3b123d0cea356230e151f1b65fa935-440x330.jpg?rect=0,11,440,308&w=710&h=497)
![How Folie à Plusieurs Uses Scent to Amplify Emotional Encounters with Art](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/b84d5b3e682839e32284c37b46430a50f5ed2070-440x330.jpg?rect=0,11,440,308&w=710&h=497)
![In Brooklyn, a Creative Campus Designed to Slow Artists and Visitors Down](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/b8a311f73eba9001e9c91cf91a8e02b91e755d86-440x330.jpg?rect=0,11,440,308&w=710&h=497)
![Vintage Loudspeakers, Restored and Transformed Into Aural Works of Art](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/781ad0edbb3adcf7a7a5395f858e4cdd2f2b49d4-440x330.jpg?rect=0,11,440,308&w=710&h=497)
![How to Break the Cycle of a Throwaway Society](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/6df7a9a4a553c19a412ea06ddf03c1048b9bd34f-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![A Multi-Venue Exhibition in Ghana Seeks to Shift Perspectives Through the Lens of Time](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/fb8c46941705b6e8e39e7e7abea9a4dfeaa987d6-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![These Lightweight Cast-Iron Pots and Pans Bring an Age-Old Craft Into the Modern Age](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/217061ded0edeca9ec3764f1e6747cc798d0e647-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![A New Children’s Book Combines Colors and Smells to Profound Effect](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/f6a5de0049259024499a011b54ae4533008dec07-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Australian Company Aims to Make Packaging Easy—and Actually Sustainable](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/8dca8b76f094649638ee9a4658ebe41c58dc2d79-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Open-Source Library Captures the Magic of the Forest Through Sound](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/c96f96a326e0f39513f15405ecfffd8b1a92c8b5-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Two Millennial Jewelers Practicing the Ancient Art of Goldsmithing](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/c4958f2a948ee178dacd6e0c4c96895156f006c9-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Pairing Champagne and Ice Cream, Stephanie Goto Masterminds an Extraordinary Omakase](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/49d21f39b604e7d153cc2c9a3412f1f626fb619a-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![The Punk Music That Put Eddie Stern on a Spiritual Path](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/8b013e57d1bf08849efe079a54848b5f183dc66b-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Exquisite Leaf-Shaped Incense, Made from Japanese Washi Paper](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/e872b1024ceabaaa7557880f89da7c93a6e748cc-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![How Serendipity Helps Omer Arbel Materialize the Unseen](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/04c23b866215ec9d2e105569f8911435fb22911f-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![In Boucheron’s Latest Collection, Holographic Effects Meet High Jewelry](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/6d61cb058fcdabcd511373c6b5b7d0da5f41f586-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Real-Time Radio and Street Sounds Bring These Virtual Driving Tours to Life](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/937954524d5f61eda55396fdca0f74bd12bf95ef-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Damien Hirst Presents an Evocative Forest of Cherry Blossoms at Paris’s Fondation Cartier](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/d621e51aefa179f83f85f94a684e3cc0cbcf4882-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This ’80s Summer–Inspired Fragrance Line Evokes the Era’s Popsicles, Pool Toys, and Speedos](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/8d96f18df75fd493275ee21155a6f16a9fe0c89b-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![At Knights Valley Wagyu, Respecting Cows and the Environment Go Hand in Hand](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/f050c3ecba68058b2b3322fbd962caa0a339bb08-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![How to Make an Exceptional Summer Pie, According to Four & Twenty Blackbirds’s Emily Elsen](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/902dca44469283816fc22813fd79861275101a65-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![How Louis Vuitton Bottles the Scent of California’s Shoreline](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/441bd4329a69edc150f5e851cc22dcfb80ec66d9-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Elegant Glass Speaker Magnifies Sounds From Your Smartphone](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/05e34ab307be61264dc2f3e794a72c26c61d0265-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Google’s First Retail Space Is Simultaneously Tranquil and Teched-Out](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/df603df13cad63901bce46d5f6f166c8f14f301e-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Doree Shafrir’s Favorite Media Outlets—Slow, Singular, and Unconventional—Mirror Her Life](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/4b973be3ae9dcf789e74aa28654ad9f330c5a249-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![In “Social Works,” Antwaun Sargent Explores the Connections Between Space and Black Social Practice](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/118493104b0c48cb8ddb9602519380152b64a817-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![An Expressive Jewelry Line That Celebrates the Devices Worn by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/1d8ba8f51aa32a0dbd0b86a30bde1f9633a1dae0-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Dr. Katelynn Robinson Unpacks the Role of Odors in the Middle Ages](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/aeefb6fd6035793b5c0ec4175287ac47a1cc6e95-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Fix Frozen Treats at Home With These No-Nonsense Ice-Cream Makers](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/86b3c944c3f8b7846aa3e853109c5b5195151042-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![In Wisconsin, an Exhibition of Analog Art Shaped by Digital Themes](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/e6a6b4e7be3f9c350132702d52cd76923feadb05-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Perfume Bottles the Free-Spirited Scent of Spain’s Balearic Islands](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/0918e778107ec9708b0101c1f72efe6c6341aa0e-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![Dave Chappelle’s New Podcast](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/b531a8d22de3ab5d4be143ab65727637d388cb50-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![The Intrinsic Value of Cloudspotting](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/bc7f436380d01f08a8011b7702fccbabaa61e87d-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![This Incubator Is Helping Black- and Latinx-Owned Brands Break Into the Beauty Industry](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/0adb1a4a9d3773bf36e7670870a6c3d23833bf69-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)
![In Detroit, Botanical Extracts Inform These Tasty Small-Batch Sodas](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m8zvzebu/production/25c41c6dee2df7d9d88168fa7d1665ec006f330b-1760x1320.jpg?rect=0,44,1760,1232&w=710&h=497)