As two of the most famous pop songwriters in the world, Swift and McCartney have admired each another’s work from afar over the years.
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Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
3 June 2026
The mural stood for nearly three decades before workers began painting over it last month, causing an uproar among residents who admired the mural’s grand scale and message of ocean conservation.
The lens widened further to embrace categories of practice not conventionally regarded as art, most prominently, craft; here, too, the art establishment focused on textiles and ceramics engaged with an existing modernism, as opposed to the 1970s focus on regional and communal networks.
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Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
The 2001-02 squad set a franchise record with 61 wins and advanced to the Western Conference Finals, where Sacramento pushed the Los Angeles Lakers to seven games in a series widely regarded as one of the most memorable in NBA playoff history.
Rarely translated into English, but revered in Japan for the purity of her classical language and her status as the country’s first professional woman writer, Ichiyo Higuchi drew on her own short life in a poor Tokyo neighbourhood to inspire her work.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
From his early days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational skill.
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