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Staff Writer, @newyorker. Author of “Do Not Sell At Any Price,” a book about collectors of rare 78rpm records. Writer-in-Residence, @nyugallatin.
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Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs

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By Amanda Petrusich Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
In the summer of 2022, Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit,” a buoyant but doleful song about a missed shot—“I bite my tongue, it’s a bad habit,” he sings ruefully—started going crazy on TikTok. Lacy, who was twenty-four at the time, was previously best known as a guitarist in the Internet, a psych-R. & B. band that emerged out of the sprawling Los Angeles hip-hop group Odd Future. “Bad Habit” was an unexpected but delightful hit.
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Madonna and the Muppets Made the Case for Love

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By Amanda Petrusich Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
This year, for the first time ever, the FIFA World Cup final featured an eleven-minute halftime hullabaloo, co-headlined by four megastar acts: Madonna, Shakira, Justin Bieber, and BTS. The lineup—theoretically a diverse parade of talent, with two of the three host nations represented—was curated by Chris Martin, of Coldplay, a self-appointed apostle of good vibes, whose anti-poverty platform Global Citizen helped produce the event.
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Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art

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By Hilton Als Verified, Rhoda Feng Verified, Sheldon Pearce Verified, Richard Brody Verified, Amanda Petrusich Verified
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The art world loves a tie-in—a book or a movie that provides an occasion to “reframe” certain artists. In recent months, Andrew Durbin’s very fine biography “The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek” has helped to promote two artists whom younger viewers in particular may have been only tangentially aware of. Paul Thek (1933-88) is the subject of two shows up now, at the (through July 25), and at Pace (through Aug. 14).
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