I’m Robin, Editor of Misstropolis.
I hope this site brings you some joy and some knowledge (or at least a nice distraction) during this surreal, enlightening and historic time.
I like to write about art, style and purpose. If you have ideas for stories or would like to contribute, I’d love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading!
Misstropolis
Spirit & Style, Inside & Out
This year during Women’s History Month, I’ve thought a lot about women and anger. Throughout history and around the world, women have been socialized to doubt, fear and repress their anger, especially in periods of hyper masculinity or aggression. But in recent years women have shown incredible courage and creativity in honoring and channeling their anger and turning it into a catalyst for social justice.
Valentines Day is as good an excuse as any to binge on love-inspired art. This year for Valentines Day, give yourself the gift of enjoying some passionate, obsessive, transporting, heady, gorgeous and sexy works of art that make you feel something or learn something or do something that may come close to love.
With more and more companies announcing permanent work from home options for employees, what will this mean for American personal style? Will sweatpants bring the end of dignity or the beginning of acceptance and empathy?
The optimistic paintings of Madrid-based artist Eva Navarro portray a color packed landscape of common experience through resilience, solitude and sunlight.
If you go, you may never want to leave. Welcome to Campo, the innovative Creative Arts Institute in tucked away Garzón, Uruguay. Founder Heidi Lender has built a haven for connection, quiet and creativity, drawing artists and art enthusiasts from all over the world. Campo’s Artfest takes place December 28, 29. it just might be the answer to how to exit 2020 and start all over again.
She’s speaking. Simone Leigh will be the first black woman ever to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2022. In collaboration with the ICA Boston who commissioned and will organize the show Leigh will bring her powerful unapologetic voice to issues of authorship, agency and understanding America through a black female lens.
Jay Calderin, second in our new Visionary Series, founded Boston Fashion Week 26 years ago to champion the local community of diverse, creative talent. This year, BFW will be entirely virtual, and will celebrate the next generation of fashion visionaries.
More than one of the world’s best tennis players, more than the world’s highest paid female athlete, Naomi Osaka is a force for social justice and a quiet style icon on the rise.
The explosion in the port area of Beirut reduced much of photographer Rania Matar’s birthplace to rubble. True to her activist nature, she responded with a collaborative campaign, raising thousands for reconstruction and boosting awareness for crisis-fatigued Americans.
When it comes to buying books, stay true to your independent spirit.
Why you should always support local independent bookstores and never buy a book from Amazon again.
Sarah Dinnick’s mesmerizing photographs transport us from isolation to understanding, connection and empathy. With an intense respect for her remote subjects, she shows how intimately we are, through our experiences, connected.
Millennials have a native trust in technology, writes Grace Kenney, a recent college grad. Contemplating the meaning of her art history degree in light of new challenges to art institutions, hierarchies and traditions, she explores the role technology might play moving forward and the benefits that she believes will impact a wider, more diverse audience.
Writer and avid tennis player Jim Baldwin shares a short story about a Father’s Day game he will never forget.
The first in a new series on Visionaries, Bridgitt Evans of VIA Art Fund demonstrates what compassionate engagement and direct action look like in this fragile moment. “I know, right now, in every town in America, artists are putting their minds, hands, bodies and voices to work to communicate our fears, heartbreak and rage.”
The collective fury compelling people of all races to take to the streets across America and even beyond to London, must continue to fuel direct action after the protests end. Here are some ideas to keep you informed, engaged and and active in the Commonwealth and beyond.
Anne Buckley takes us on a sensory journey across the globe from South America to the South Pacific via an expert-led virtual chocolate tasting. The ultimate tour guide, we discover, comes from humble pods that grow in the jungle and inherit the flavor of the land.
As quarantine drags into month three, author and parenting expert Susan Callahan discusses her strategies for finding work-life balance and the philosophy of white space as a means toward finding clarity in chaos.
What does it mean to be a college graduate in 2020? How are students managing the disappointment of losing their senior spring with its long-awaited celebrations and recognition? And how is society treating the experience, listening or talking over them? From east coast to west, we check in with college seniors and come out feeling hopeful for the generation which will lead us as the virus recedes and a new reality comes into view.
A little style inspiration for Mother’s Day 2020 (possibly the weirdest Mother’s Day yet). Alisa Neely shows us how to dress for the day like the Queen you are.
