This year's Super Bowl will be a re-match of 2015's big game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, but, we noted, that's not all from the era that is being replayed. The BBC recently reported that Gen Z is swamping social media with nostalgia for the mid-teens, with searches for "2016" surging by 452% on TikTok in the first week of this year and more than 56 million videos created using the app's 2016 filter. Pink-hued Instagram filters are also back as young people pine for a simpler, less algorithm-driven internet. "Looking at Instagram, around 2016, there was no carousel posts," said one Gen Z users.. "People were posting a picture of their avocado, and it wasn't so performative."

  Frank Webster paints landscapes, from delicate, page-size watercolors to works on canvas that span close to ten feet in width. Above: Monacobreen IV, acrylic on canvas, 2024. He seems equally at home painting on a Zodiac in the frozen North—and in the even more frozen South, as he is working the finishing touches In his studio. Based on what he brings in to Studio 12 at the Art Students League, where he teaches watercolor techniques, I asked him about his library. This is...