Booms & Shakes: New hires, big wins, studio birthdays and more

Sep 10, 2025

The Midnight Club’s new hires Welcome to the very first edition of Booms & Shakes – your monthly roundup of who’s moving where, what agencies are winning, and the fresh ideas making noise across the creative industries. It’s a big moment for us –...

Family & Friends and Mornflake launch a free-spirited snack brand

Sep 10, 2025

Yup! – a new range of “Anytime Oat Crumbles” – reimagines the humble porridge pot as a sweet, stylish, and satisfying snack for any time of day. Mornflake has teamed up with branding studio Family & Friends to launch Yup!, a new snack range that aims...

Laura James Paints What America Wants to Forget

Sep 10, 2025

“Make work.” Laura James shared this concise yet powerful mantra with me during a visit to her Bronx studio in West Farms. A poster bearing the phrase hangs on her wall — a nod, she explained, to the influence of Marcus Garvey’s industrious philosophy. James doesn’t...

Newly Released Epstein Birthday Drawings Paint a Disturbing Picture

Sep 10, 2025

The bipartisan House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform this week released 238 pages from a book of drawings and notes gifted to convicted serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by his wife and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, for his 50th birthday. Bearing the...

10 New York City Art Shows to Wind Down Your Summer

Sep 10, 2025

Next weekend, museums and galleries across the city emerge from their summer slumber to premiere their fall offerings. That doesn’t mean you should wait to see art. We’ve compiled a list of 10 current exhibitions that continue into the fall and winter months. Some are...

A No Kings Movement for 19th-Century Art 

Sep 10, 2025

LONDON — How best to paint the scorned, the marginalized, the lost to view?  This was the challenge that faced the French artist Jean-François Millet in the middle years of the 19th century. His subject was the peasantry who worked on the land, owners of small...