How contemporary fashion designers mine archival uniforms without erasing labor histories

Dec 02, 2025 | by Julien Moreau

When designers reach into archives for inspiration, they are touching more than fabric and silhouette: they are engaging with lived histories, forms of labor and systems of power. I’ve long been...

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How do diasporic filmmakers use vernacular sound to map home and belonging?

Dec 02, 2025 | by Julien Moreau

I’ve been thinking about sound a lot lately — the small, stubborn noises that stick to you: a vendor’s call at dawn, the rattle of a tram, a lullaby hummed in a kitchen you no longer own. For...

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Why the market for outsider art hides more than it reveals about artistic value

Dec 02, 2025 | by Julien Moreau

There’s a peculiar dissonance I keep returning to whenever I encounter so-called "outsider art" in auction catalogues, glossy market reports or gallery press releases: the work that once sat beyond...

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