Feature writing in art, fashion, beauty, design and visual culture.

‘Wheatfield’: Agnes Denes has reimagined her landmark artwork (CNN)

What does the first year of motherhood look like? For this photographer — and many other women — it was dark and complex (CNN)

Shock Miss USA resignations are just the tip of the iceberg, insiders say (CNN)

Social media is rife with skin-whitening products. But little is being done to regulate the market (CNN)

The mourning dress codes of ‘Succession’ (CNN)

Helmut Lang returns to the runway, with ascendant designer Peter Do at the helm (CNN)

Inside ‘fake heiress’ Anna Delvey’s rooftop fashion show — hosted under house arrest (CNN)

Sex positivity after 70: Marilyn Minter’s sensual photographs of couples in their golden years (CNN)

How artist Amy Sherald reimagined history’s most famous kiss (CNN)

Mayan Toledano’s vibrant photographs of queer life in Mexico City (CNN)

Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate (CNN)

World’s largest ‘wood city’ to be built in Stockholm (CNN)

‘A real stroke of genius.’ How Apple’s iMac G3 became an object of desire (CNN)

Inside the Waldorf Astoria’s $1 billion makeover (CNN)

Photographer Tommy Kha has been awkwardly kissing people for a decade (Dazed)

Caravaggios’s ‘The Lute Player’ helped me face my anxiety over death (Artsy)

How Renaissance artists brought pornography to the masses (Artsy)

The photographer taking regal portraits of Nigerian brides (Artsy)

Six women artists furthering Cindy Sherman’s pioneering vision (Artsy)
