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The Complete Kubrick box set, from the Criterion Collection, available in October: “collected here for the first time are Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered; over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials; and deluxe packaging illustrated with rare photographs, artwork, and documents annotated by Kubrick himself, all housed in a singular box inspired by the director’s legendary archive.”
For all the flâneurs out there: the new Kruunuvuorensilta bridge opens to pedestrians today at 14:00. Built for the sole use of public transport, pedestrian traffic and cycling, the 1.2-kilometer-long bridge is one of the longest of its kind in the world. More here. Let’s build more bridges, literal and metaphorical!
For all the “ironic points of light” out there: W. H. Auden’s September 1, 1939.
For a wintry weekend ahead: When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — But One Is Werner Herzog, or comparing two documentaries about volcanologist-filmmaker team Maurice and Katia Krafft.
Case Study House #22, or the Stahl House, is now on sale, for the first time in the home’s history. Original construction cost in May 1960: $37,500. Asking price in November 2025: $25 million. Los Angeles!
Ill-advised by Bill Nighy, “a podcast for people who don’t get out much and can’t handle it when they do.”
Mike Mandel’s Baseball Photographer Trading Cards (1975), featuring photographers instead of athletes, including Imogen Cunningham, Ed Ruscha, William Eggleston, and Ansel Adams. Mandel talks about the project in this 2015 video for SFMOMA; and, you can still find sets for sale on the internet.
What Stands Behind the Flowers, watercolour drawings by Hilma af Klint, now on public display for the first time, through 27 September at MoMA. “I will try,” she wrote, “to grasp the flowers of the earth.”
Erin Morton, a junior at the University of Cincinnati College—Conservatory of Music, covers Radiohead’s Creep.