An All Women’s Music Festival of the ‘90s and Other Reads This Week
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
An All Women’s Music Festival of the ‘90s and Other Reads This Week
HUR Reads is our definitive shortlist of the most prominent articles from around the web.
By HURS Team
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Kirsten Dunst in Conversation with Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m Not Shy!’
At Versailles, Kirsten Dunst and Sofia Coppola meet again, two decades after The Virgin Suicides cemented their bond. The actor-director duo recall the quiet trust that has defined their work—whether reimagining a queen’s gilded isolation in Marie Antoinette or the charged silences of The Beguiled. Their conversation moves between memory and momentum: the strangeness of coming of age in public, the discipline of doing less, and the rare ease of finding a collaborator who feels like family.
HOW TO SPEND IT
Nan Goldin reflects on her lifelong friendship with photographer David Armstrong, tracing their bond from a radical free school in Massachusetts to New York, Berlin, and beyond. Armstrong not only named her “Nan,” but also helped shape her voice, humor, and early photography. Together they created A Double Life (1994), intertwining their visions of intimacy and portraiture. For Goldin, Armstrong’s wit and focus transformed those around him—and through her archive, their shared world remains luminous, alive, and enduring.
FRIEZE
Brooklyn boutique Outline has traded e-commerce for a bold, old-school alternative: the print catalog. Co-founders Margaret Austin and Hannah Rieke curate designers like The Row and Dries Van Noten with cult favorites, each piece chosen to feel rare and intentional. Styled like editorials, the catalogs extend Outline’s intimate, relationship-driven ethos beyond its 1,200-square-foot space—orders placed by phone, text, or DM. It’s shopping stripped of anonymity, where every purchase feels personal, deliberate, and decidedly refined.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
In the late ’90s, Lilith Fair upended music’s boys’ club, bringing Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Erykah Badu, and more together on one bill. It wasn’t just a festival. It proved women could headline, sell out stadiums, and build a touring community on their own terms. Beyond the music, it was a space of solidarity, safety, and possibility—something rare in the industry then and now. A new documentary revisits those summers, showing how a generation of artists rewrote the rules and why their lessons still resonate.
THE ATLANTIC
Durga Chew-Bose’s short film “Behind Bonjour” offers a gentle look at the making of her directorial debut, Bonjour Tristesse. Shot over 30 sun-soaked days in Cassis, France, the film captures the quiet rhythms of production—the click of heels on terrace steps, props being tested, impromptu dips in the sea, and shared apéros. It’s a celebration of collaboration and play, revealing how a cast and crew found joy, improvisation, and inspiration in every moment of creating something from scratch.