Hear the Sound He Saw

DeCarava spent forty years failing to publish a book that paired his photographs with jazz. Tonight a gallery finally builds him the room it always needed.

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The gated east entrance to the Cyrus Avery Route 66 Memorial Bridge in Tulsa, locked to the public since 2008

Viajes y Ciudades (Travel & Cities)

Too Historic to Demolish

Cyrus Avery talked Route 66 into existence using this exact bridge. On the road's 100th birthday, the bridge is still padlocked shut.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at dusk, its cloud-like white form overlooking the Los Angeles skyline

Arquitectura y Diseño Gráfico

Free of Context

A museum built to give pop art the reverence of fine art skips the one wall label its most loaded painting actually needs.

Carhartt WIP's OG Detroit Jacket in a factory-applied "destroy wash" finish — faded, frayed, and stained to look decades old before it's ever been worn

Fashion & Streetwear

Honest Value for an Honest Dollar

A factory process now manufactures, in an afternoon, the exact wear a Carhartt used to take years of real work to earn.

A Jan Vormann Dispatchwork installation in Paris — a broken wall patched with colorful LEGO bricks

Internet & Bizarro

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For nineteen years Jan Vormann has patched broken walls with LEGO bricks — and never taken a cent from the one company that would happily pay for the association.

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