In Depth with Jessie Buckley, Celine Song and More
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
In Depth with Jessie Buckley, Celine Song and More
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
By HURS Team
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Jessie Buckley Goes Where Few Actresses Dare
T Magazine profiles Irish actor Jessie Buckley, whose fearless performances—from Wild Rose to Chloé Zhao’s upcoming Hamnet—push into the rawest corners of womanhood. With roles exploring grief, motherhood, desire, and moral conflict under her belt, Buckley seeks stories that unsettle. This feature captures the actor’s unvarnished charm and creative hunger as she reflects on impending motherhood and the complicated roles she portrays.
T MAGAZINE
Ming Smith is the first African-American woman to have her work acquired by MoMA and a singular force in American art. SSENSE delves into her portraits of Pharoah Sanders, James Baldwin, Grace Jones, and other icons of New York’s jazz and arts scene. From backstage moments at Studio 54 to intimate, unguarded gestures, Smith transforms fleeting encounters into visual elegies that honor cultural history.
SSENSE
Rachel Ruysch was a 17th-century Dutch artist whose botanical paintings once outshone Vermeer. The Atlantic spotlights her seventy-year career, elevating still-life into high drama. While other women were barred from guilds and commissions, Ruysch’s bouquets—vivid, intricate, and alive with insects and exotic blooms—claimed space, power, and recognition that rivaled her male contemporaries and redefined her genre.
THE ATLANTIC
Luke Georgiades sits down with Celine Song for an exclusive cover feature. The writer-director behind Materialists examines love, ambition, and desire in New York’s elite dating world. Drawing on her own experience as a matchmaker, Song reveals the transactional undercurrents beneath the city’s glamorous courtships, showing how wealth and status shape who gets close—and who stays distant.
A RABBIT’S FOOT
The New York Times dives into the world of Cecilia Bartoli: mezzo-soprano superstar, artistic director of Salzburg’s Whitsun Festival, and founder of her own orchestra. At 59, she compares her craft to a slow-simmering ragù—layered, precise, and full of flavor—proving that both her voice and her energy are as bold and unstoppable as ever.