Ambition

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

• By Ashley Hackett
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Though we wake in fear of mediocrity, let us cease to be crippled by it.

• By Christopher Cokinos

What will happen when young talent starts refusing to subsidize the creative industries that aren't really profitable in America's most expensive cities?

• By Jim Russell