Shiverstruck, Ian Sweet’s fifth album, delivers honesty and personal reflection
Jilian Medford, also known as IAN SWEET, just dropped her fifth album, Shiverstruck. SWEET is following the beat of her own drum, charting her own course through the brightest and darkest moments life has to offer. Now 33, she reflects on moving to New York, singing for babies, and locking herself up in Atlanta to birth her latest album.
Slawn: Basquiat or King Bach?
British-Nigerian painter Olaolu Slawn has become one of contemporary art’s fastest-rising names. Michael A. Fadugbagbe argues that beneath the hype lies a practice that repackages American minstrelsy for the age of the algorithm.
The Next Designers: Dialective Class of 2026
Each year, Dialective, a nonprofit fashion collective, platforms the next generation of fashion designers with runway shows produced by students, for students. Bias Cut’s fashion editor Karalyn Hosier sits down with three stand-out graduates, Blue Achenbach, Devlin Ebisu, and Lia Skoien, to discuss impeccable craftsmanship, relentless determination, and what’s next in fashion.
August Horoscopes
August is marked by eclipse season, bookended by a grand hello and a dreamy goodbye. Eclipses can be experienced as heightened times that catalyze abrupt beginnings and endings. This August is home to two of these major events, the first of which takes place on the 12th.
The Book of Immortality
Taking inspiration from Los Angeles’ storied past, The Book of Immortality captures the city’s legacy in babydoll dresses, flowing skirts, and vintage-inspired blouses.
Softly Splintered
Shocks of sudden color traversing dusty corners, climbing, lounging, and lingering in spaces unfamiliar.
Why New York?
Photographer Noah Berghammer has taken up shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Inside Macy Todd’s Modern Americana
Macy Todd is a girl with soul. Her voice, with its captivating, raw tone is infused with a spirit that reminds you she is alive, and you are too. On her new EP pretty ruthless, the Georgia-born singer-songwriter explores the past decade of her life, cutting through misty nostalgia with her lucid lyrics and impassioned vocals.
Fragmented Touch
Photographer Mathilde Favel captures the intimate gestures, objects, and moments that commemorate what it means to interact with our world and each other when we’re young.
July Horoscopes
Summer is in full force, and it’s getting hot in here. If July 2026 were a song, it would sound like Charli XCX featuring Lana Del Rey: loud, glitchy, and energizing, but if you listen to the lyrics, you’ll find melancholic reflection.
Infinite Rendition
Sculptor César E. López delves into the nuance of his seemingly harsh and industrial sculptures, revealing their biometric qualities and relation to his experience as a Guatemalan immigrant in the United States.
Tennis Skirt
A poem by Juliette Jeffers.
Breast Milk
Still waiting patiently for puberty.
Storied Memories
These moments don’t have to disappear just because we grow up.
The Physical Plane
Los Angeles artist Clyde Corley has forged a new path. After a successful career in commercial art direction, he’s departing from what he’s known for and developing a new, subversive signature with sculpture.
Familial Intimacies
Greta Alexandra-Parker is an Oklahoma City based artist working in photography. Focused on family narratives in the American West and South, her work explores settler colonialism in the wake of the 21st century, environmental collapse due to land expropriation, and intergenerational family legacies.
Assigning Godhood
How a generation of artists make meaning in the digital abyss.
Class Clown
June Horoscopes
This summer starts on a high note for everyone. The first week of June is supercharged with momentum that is here to help, ultimately peaking on June 9th when Venus and Jupiter make a conjunction in Cancer.
A Conversation Between Mind and Body
In Georgica Pettus’ 2025 play, Seconds Minutes Hours, four actors portray the minds and bodies of a man and a woman lying in bed together for 10 minutes as they inwardly contemplate lust, love, and life. Stretched into a 90 minute play, the performance features Georgica acting as the mind of Molly, while Stella Jiler plays Molly’s body. Now that the play has wrapped, the two women reflect on cognitive connections and matching haircuts.