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The Best AI Art in the World, Vol. 7

This new Retro series—curated by a longtime professional cultural critic and former Digital Arts professor at University of New Hampshire—highlights…

Jun 3 •

The Goodnight Playlist, Vol. 14

These Retro-exclusive ten-song YouTube playlists offer a former-DJ-curated mix of contemporary genres. I hope you enjoy the music—and as ever, “sleep…

Jun 2 •

The Best Sports Videos, Vol. 1

Each edition of this Retro series features five events in the world of sport the likes of which you haven’t seen before, curated by a journalist who’s…

May 30 •

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Ten Ways Major League Baseball Has Gotten Better—and Worse

America’s “national pastime”—to the extent it can still be called that—has undergone profound changes in the last few years. Some have been for the…

May 29 •

Here Are Ten More Sixties Dances that Should Go Viral on TikTok, Now That Dodie Stevens’ “Pink Shoelaces” Has Lit the World on Fire Thanks…

“Pink Shoelaces”—choreographed in a complex style that probably would have been out of place in the 1960s—is a huge hit on TikTok. But here are ten real…

May 28 •

Lost Classics of the 1960s, Vol. 23

A carefully curated selection of obscure musical wonders from an ex-disc jockey with a specialization in American and British psychedelia recorded from…

May 26 •

The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 5

In this new series, one man—a longtime art critic and former professor of digital culture—assesses TV shows, films, novels, graphic novels, console and…

May 25 •

The Best Animated Music Videos, Vol. 1

This new Retro series celebrates the best exemplars of the comic arts and music in juxtaposition. The videos in this series are considered some of the…

May 20 •

This Unpublished 2015 Column Predicted 2023 Fears About Chatbots and the Work Sponsored by Elon Musk at OpenAI

Retro readers get to see a major-media column on Earth’s near-term dystopian future that was written days before Musk’s OpenAI—later, the creator of…

May 19 •

The Best AI Art in the World, Vol. 6

This new Retro series—curated by a longtime professional cultural critic and former Digital Arts professor at University of New Hampshire—highlights…

May 13 •

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