Why Are We So Nostalgic for Music We Loved as Teenagers? As I plod through my 20s, I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon: The music I loved as a teenager means more to me than ever—but with each passing year, the...

“Musical nostalgia, in other words, isn’t just a cultural phenomenon: It’s a neuronic command. And no matter how sophisticated our tastes might otherwise grow to be, our brains may stay jammed on those songs we obsessed over during the high drama of adolescence.“

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american photographer caleb cole (b. 1981) from his series “Odd One Out,” 2010-ongoing.

american photographer larry sultan (1946-2009) from his series “Pictures from Home,” 1999.

boardwalk convention hall, asbury park, new jersey, 1978

boardwalk convention hall, asbury park, new jersey, 1978

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Why do I grieve my childhood home so much now we’ve sold it? And what can I do about it? Many are surprised by the depth of sad yearning they feel after selling the childhood home. The grief can be especially profound if it coincides with a parent dying.

a lesser talked about grief—losing your childhood home.

german-vietnamese painter nam chau. from her body of work “My Mother’s Camp” (2010-2016)

portuguese artist helena almeida (1934-2018) from her series “Pintura habitada,” 1976-1977.

japanese artist on kawara (1932-2014) from his series “I Got Up”

Grief and joy go hand in hand. How one woman learned to embrace both After her father's death, Laurel Braitman chased success as a way to suppress her grief. But she eventually learned that running from pain prevented her from experiencing joy.

the human existence—learning to find joy in times of grief. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

dominican-american multi-disciplinary artist, joiri minaya (b. 1990) from the series "#dominicanwomengooglesearch"

Blockbuster is returning to the UK over a decade later - but not for long The nostalgic video rental store will return for just four days, so you’ll have to be quick

our fav nostalgic video store is coming back for four days in the uk 📼 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2000, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Camille Monet (1847–1879) in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1876

Presented by the artist 1991

Terry Winters, Colophon, 1988
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120956

David Lynch 1946-2025 RIP

A woman painting a view of the Shenandoah Valley from the Skyline Drive, near an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, Virginia

Painting in the mountains

Jack Delano
1940
Library of Congress

If you’re memory and archive pilled then you need to follow @archive-in-culture.bsky.social

Find Awe and Inspiration in Thousands of Public Domain Artworks The Public Domain Review’s new online archive compiles beloved and little-known illustrations, photographs, and many more images to remix and reuse.

The Public Domain Review has launched a new archive of over 10,000 copyright-free images, from stunning illustrations to rare photographs, ready for remixing and reuse.

If You're Nostalgic for Nokia, See the Devices That Defined ’90s Cellphone Design in a New Online Archive The iconic brand's mobile phones were pop culture mainstays. Soon, a new online archive will bring together thousands of documents, early models and design concepts

nostalgic for old tech? this past december, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social reported that nokia has donated thousands of documents, videos, process models and design concepts to Finland’s Aalto University, which will open the Nokia Design Archive on Jan 15 🤳🏼

one of my all time favorite photographers ❤️ frazier works in a way which she combines elements of her family home as both an archive and an alter to her ancestors. her practice also helps to rewrite the way Black folks and their stories are depicted in the media.

Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel : Evidence. The book was the culmination of a two-year search through the archives of 77 government agencies, educational institutions and corporations. loeildelaphotographie.com/en/d-a-p-lar... #photography

On Constructing a Food Archive - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food The artist Rajyashri Goody maintains a deeply poetic and subversive catalog of both Dalit resistance and caste-based violence through her artistic practice, playing with non-existent archives, cookboo...

in a text for mold magazine, artist rajyashri goody discusses her relationship with food + how it influenced her art practice, driving her to create an ongoing archive that displays the Dalit experience.

How Do Portraits Keep Families of Incarcerated Individuals Together? Drawing from her family's experience, Nicole R. Fleetwood considers prison photographs as objects of love and belonging.

nicole r. fleetwood explores memory and grief through photo studios in prison in her essay "marking time" for aperture