Welcome Digest [1.14.26]
Eric Adams rugpull, Hermés stalks customers, 90s exhibition at Tate Modern, and more
Welcome To January 14th
Today’s Important Headlines
🖼️ Major 90s exhibition coming to Tate Modern
Tate Modern will stage The 90s from October 1, 2026 to February 14, 2027, a large-scale exhibition which examines the post recession explosion in fashion, photography, art, and music in Britain during the 90’s. Curated by Edward Enninful, the show brings together work by Juergen Teller, Nick Knight, David Sims, and Corinne Day alongside fashion by Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and Hussein Chalayan, plus art from Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, and Yinka Shonibare.
🏡 You can now tour Yves Saint Laurent’s Marrakech home
Villa Oasis, hidden inside Jardin Majorelle, is now open for visitors for the first time. The house where Yves Saint Laurent lived and designed in Morocco can now be toured, revealing colorful interiors filled with North African textiles, mosaics, plants, and objets d’art. Tours offer a direct look at how Marrakech shaped YSL’s revolutionary use of color in couture, but cost about $5,000.
💸 Eric Adams rugpulled a crypto token
Yesterday, former NYC Mayor Eric Adams promoted a crypto token he claimed would fight “antisemitism and anti-Americanism.” He allegedly withdrew all of his liquidity within a few hours. The coin has since crashed more than 81 percent from its peak, wiping out nearly $500 million in market cap, while Adams (or someone he owes money to) reportedly walked away with $2.5 million, just the latest instance in a concerning trend of public figure driving speculative crypto schemes with little accountability.
👜 Hermès stalks clients to see if they’re worthy of a Birkin
A Glitz investigation claims Hermès sales associates research clients’ home addresses and social media to decide who is “worthy” of a Birkin or Kelly. Employees continue monitoring buyers after purchase for resale activity, with flipping resulting in immediate blacklisting. One associate told Glitz that “every new client is automatically a suspect.” Signals of an acceptable client include ultra-high-end watches like Audemars Piguet or Richard Mille, while flashy Rolexes are viewed skeptically.
📺 An anonymous developer built an ad-free MTV archive
A programmer known as Flexasaurus Rex has created MTV Rewind, a free, ad-free site recreating the era when MTV actually played music. The archive includes nearly 30,000 videos across nine channels, from MTV’s debut through the 2020s, plus Yo! MTV Raps and Headbangers Ball, with a ‘Shuffle All’ option and occasional vintage commercials.
Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)
Moodboard 019
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From The Archive
An extra piece of content from the Welcome Archive for Magazine subscribers only.
Pornographie by Édouard Levé (2002)
The book presents staged sexual scenes photographed with neutral lighting and emotionally flattened compositions, making it feel clinical and deliberately distant rather than erotic.
These images strip away intimacy and narrative, focusing on repetition and framing to examine how meaning is produced through context alone.
