“F**k the algorithm” – Art, curation and influence in late-stage Internet

RM at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in a post from May 30, 2022 (Screen capture)

A couple of days ago, RM (Kim Namjoon), the rapper, writer, and leader of BTS, unarchived the entirety of his Instagram history. His posts go back to December 2021, when all BTS members opened their Instagram accounts. In the last several months, RM had, seemingly randomly, “deleted” or archived posts a few or whole chunks at a time.

Bill Cunningham New York: “He Who Seeks Beauty, Will Find It”

Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New York is a small documentary, its subject deceptively small as well. Mr. Cunningham is a fashion photographer in New York. At the time the documentary was made he was 81 years old. For over three decades, he has biked around the city, photographing fashion and street life. He has two columns in the New York Times, one about street fashion and the other about social life in New York.