Shannon Stratton historicizes Party as Form through the hospitality work of arts administrators and draws studio practice out to play at the costume party.

Leo Felipe translates an excerpt from his book A Universal History of the Afterparty, calling up Brazil’s vibrant, ketamine-soaked heterotopias as immanent critique.

Kelly Lloyd presents a new scientific study on holi-delay, “a condition where people only get excited about holidays after they happen,” that evidences a cultural shift in how we set expectations for meaningful holiday celebrations.