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Smile! Your Friends Are Here

Adult Swim’s ‘Smiling Friends’ Finds Success Amongst Animation Animosity

Art, Artifice, and Anime Girls: K/DA and Gorillaz Redefine the Role of the Artist

How much does the death of the artist matter in pop?

BTS Brings Out the Best In Us

How the world's biggest boy band encourages kindness to ourselves and others.

The Twilight Renaissance: Revisiting the Hated Phenomenon

How does its cultural legacy reveal our acceptance of teenage girlhood?

It’s Taylor Swift’s Party

One of the difficulties of art is that the public eye makes little effort to separate artists from the brands they cultivate. Taylor Swift is the latest artist to be subjected to "sell-out" scrutiny for her shift into pop music, and the criticisms for her work are nothing new.

Sesame Streetwise

A look at Sesame Street far exceeding the quota for kid's show hipness.

Madame Ovaries – Girls Episode 3 Recap

Hannah buys some coke from her junkie neighbor Laird and things get weird.