he Wii Tennis Theme Edition: On Kazumi Totaka, Nintendo, and a global cultural moment

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2025December 14, 2025 Arts

Click Here to Read: The Wii Tennis Theme Edition: On Kazumi Totaka, Nintendo, and a global cultural moment by Colin Nagy on the WhyIs this Interesting Substack on December 9, 2025.

Image: Nintendo Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Selling Out: How Money Became The Art World’s Latest Muse

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2025December 14, 2025 Arts

Click Here to Read: Selling Out: How Money Became The Art World’s Latest Muse: on Art Basel Miami, art making, and corporate investment by Brendon Holder on the Loosey website on December 7, 2025

Art Basel Miami Beach at Miami Beach Convention Center 2021. Image: Jennifer 8. Lee. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Fashion’s Deep Surface: Valerie Steele on Freud, fetishism, and the emotional life of clothing

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 12, 2025December 12, 2025 Arts, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Fashion’s Deep Surface: Valerie Steele on Freud, fetishism, and the emotional life of clothing By Austin Ratner in The American Psychoanalyst Substack on December 11, 2025.

Image: beyrouth Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

The Dangers of Netflix: Coming soon to a monopoly near you

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 7, 2025 Arts, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Dangers of Netflix: Coming soon to a monopoly near you by Elliot Kirschner on his Throught the Fog Substack on December 7, 2025.

Image: TM/®Netflix Inc. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering Tom Stoppard

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Arts

Click Here to Read: INTERVIEW The Art of Theater No. 7 Tom Stoppard Interviewed by Shusha Guppy Issue 109, Winter 1988 in the Paris Review.

Tom Stoppard. Image: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Frank Gehry, world renowned architect, dies at 96

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 6, 2025December 6, 2025 Arts

Click Here to Read: Frank Gehry, world renowned architect, dies at 96 By Nick Glass and Fiona Sinclair Scott on the CNN website on December 7, 2025.

Frank O. Gehry – Parc des Ateliers on Flickr Image: 準建築人手札網站 Forgemind ArchiMedia at Flickr Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 17, 2025November 17, 2025 Arts, General, Literature, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025.
Click Here to Read: The current issue of Room, 10.25.
Click Here to Read: All past issues of Room.

And join Room’s Roundtable. Join ROOM 10.25 contributors as they explore their layered personal and professional realities and how they are responding to our current world.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
12 PM EDT
Live via Zoom
Read the featured contributors’ work here:
Dana Amir – “Looking into the Face of the Gorgon”
Patrick Cole – “We’ve Had a Problem”
Eiman Hussein – “The Unseen Scars: Navigating the Psychological Landscape of Sudan’s World”