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In London, the Most Famous “Great Woman Artist” Finally Gets Her Due

A groundbreaking new show on Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi at London’s National Gallery provides the most comprehensive overview of her life and career yet….

In July 2018, London’s National Gallery acquired a self-portrait by the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, featuring the painter in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Almost immediately, it drew an unprecedented level of media attention. First of all, there was its £3.6 million price tag. Then, there was the fact it was painted by one of the greatest artists of the 17th century who just so happens to be a woman, marking only the twentieth painting by a female artist within the gallery’s collection of over 2,300 works.

Third, and perhaps most intriguingly, was its concurrence with the height of the #MeToo movement—a timely detail that didn’t go unnoticed given Gentileschi’s identification with the Old Testament’s most vengeful women, from Judith to Susannah, and the parallels with Gentileschi’s own tumultuous life story that preceded them.

Yet according to Letizia Treves, the curator who oversaw the acquisition and has now built a groundbreaking exhibition around the painting that charts Artemisia’s career with unprecedented depth and sensitivity, this was entirely coincidental. “I’ve been extremely reluctant to mention the #MeToo movement because ironically, it had nothing to do with that,” says Treves. “It was a natural question that came to mind, but we had had her on our wishlist for a very long time. We waited for the right picture to come along, and it just so happened it was right then and there.”

So goes the eternal dilemma of staging an exhibition on Gentileschi: specifically, how to balance her technical virtuosity and piercing psychological intuition as a painter with her undeniably fascinating biography. With just 15 months to put a show together, however, Treves set about building the National Gallery’s first major solo exhibition dedicated to a female painter with a different agenda in mind. “I made a very conscious decision early on that it would be extremely selective,” Treves adds. “There wasn’t a B-list. Every object plays a really important role and if I wasn’t able to get that object, there wasn’t something that could replace it. It was this list, or that’s it. It meant the whole process of requesting works was much more straightforward. I really went for it.”

The end result is an exhibition that impresses with its carefully considered narrative, providing the most comprehensive overview of Gentileschi’s career ever staged. “With Baroque pictures, which are usually very forceful, I’m a brave believer in less is more,” Treves adds. “The pictures are incredibly powerful and you need to let people absorb each painting. If you cram the gallery with too much it actually ends up being counterproductive.” Appropriately, when entering the first room, one of Gentileschi’s most visceral pictures hangs front and center: her unique interpretation of the biblical tale of Susanna and the Elders.

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.

The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.

There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.

The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.

Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.

The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.

None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.

Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.

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