Facts Versus Feelings
The DailyYou’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your in-box.In today’s newsletter, Nathan Heller on why details didn’t matter in this election. But, first, moonlight on canvas, and then:Donald Trump’s controversial pick for Defense SecretaryHow Elon Musk rebranded TrumpIs the twentieth-century novel a genre?Typically, Fadojutimi starts work in the evening and often paints through the night, to the accompaniment of punchy dance songs and sweeping orchestral soundtracks from anime movies. These rhythms leave their marks on her work, with a burst of color bearing the imprint of a beat drop.Photograph by Alice Mann for The New YorkerThe Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with AnimeIn a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.An untitled new work. Art work © Jadé Fadojutimi / Courtesy the artist and Gagosian / Photograph by Mark BlowerThe thirty-one-year-old, “ultra-contemporary” British artist Jadé Fadojutimi makes vibrant, large-scale paintings, “intricate works that shimmer on the boundary between abstract and figurative,” Rebecca Mead writes, in a piece from this week’s issue. Iridescent arcs and urgent lines mix in among the contours of earthly elements. “Fadojutimi’s swirling images seem to capture a state of mind as much as they do a state of nature—they are always energetic, and sometimes ecstatic, blooming into color and motion and light,” Mead observes. “Her paintings invite entry. They are an alternative place to dwell.”Fadojutimi had her first solo show at the age of twenty-four and, since then, her success has skyrocketed. She is fashionable, inspired by textiles and patterns, and proficient in Japanese, spending a couple months in the country each winter. Mead visits her light-filled, plant-filled studio in South East London, to see the paintings currently on view at the Gagosian gallery in New York, and watches the artist at work. When Fadojutimi steps back from the canvas, Mead asks her how she feels. “I feel like I want a cigarette,” she says. “I feel refreshed. I feel like I just had a shower.” Read or listen to the story »The LedePhotograph by Natalie Behring / GettyRepublican Victory and the Ambience of InformationIt probably wasn’t Kamala Harris’s personal shortcomings, or a lack of detailed policy goals and fact-filled speeches, that cost her the Presidency. Nathan Heller argues that it was Donald Trump’s ability to use ambient information. Perceptions, even those immediately disprovable, became fixed in the voting public’s mind. “Detail, even when it’s available, doesn’t travel widely after all,” Heller explains. “Big, sloppy notions do.” Read the story »More Top StoriesIs the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?Pete Hegseth’s Path from Campus Provocateur to Fox to the PentagonHow Elon Musk Rebranded TrumpThe Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo ConventionDaily CartoonCartoon by Christopher WeyantCopy link to cartoonCopy link to cartoonLink copiedShopShopMore Fun & GamesPlay today’s beginner-friendly puzzle. A clue: Michelangelo, Monet, and Morisot. Seven letters.P.S. You might remember Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota who has been nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration, as the woman who killed her family dog, Cricket. But did you also know that she wants to duel the Aflac duck? Emily Zauzmer imagines this and other humorous, hypothetical revelations from Noem’s biography.
In today’s newsletter, Nathan Heller on why details didn’t matter in this election. But, first, moonlight on canvas, and then:
- Donald Trump’s controversial pick for Defense Secretary
- How Elon Musk rebranded Trump
- Is the twentieth-century novel a genre?
The Intensely Colorful Work of a Painter Obsessed with Anime
In a London warehouse pumping with dance music and movie soundtracks, Jadé Fadojutimi paints exuberant canvases all night long.
The thirty-one-year-old, “ultra-contemporary” British artist Jadé Fadojutimi makes vibrant, large-scale paintings, “intricate works that shimmer on the boundary between abstract and figurative,” Rebecca Mead writes, in a piece from this week’s issue. Iridescent arcs and urgent lines mix in among the contours of earthly elements. “Fadojutimi’s swirling images seem to capture a state of mind as much as they do a state of nature—they are always energetic, and sometimes ecstatic, blooming into color and motion and light,” Mead observes. “Her paintings invite entry. They are an alternative place to dwell.”
Fadojutimi had her first solo show at the age of twenty-four and, since then, her success has skyrocketed. She is fashionable, inspired by textiles and patterns, and proficient in Japanese, spending a couple months in the country each winter. Mead visits her light-filled, plant-filled studio in South East London, to see the paintings currently on view at the Gagosian gallery in New York, and watches the artist at work. When Fadojutimi steps back from the canvas, Mead asks her how she feels. “I feel like I want a cigarette,” she says. “I feel refreshed. I feel like I just had a shower.” Read or listen to the story »
The Lede
Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information
It probably wasn’t Kamala Harris’s personal shortcomings, or a lack of detailed policy goals and fact-filled speeches, that cost her the Presidency. Nathan Heller argues that it was Donald Trump’s ability to use ambient information. Perceptions, even those immediately disprovable, became fixed in the voting public’s mind. “Detail, even when it’s available, doesn’t travel widely after all,” Heller explains. “Big, sloppy notions do.” Read the story »
- Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
- Pete Hegseth’s Path from Campus Provocateur to Fox to the Pentagon
- How Elon Musk Rebranded Trump
- The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
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P.S. You might remember Kristi Noem, the Governor of South Dakota who has been nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump Administration, as the woman who killed her family dog, Cricket. But did you also know that she wants to duel the Aflac duck? Emily Zauzmer imagines this and other humorous, hypothetical revelations from Noem’s biography.
