FYI #129

Luke Edward Hall, Garden God III, 2026, watercolor on paper, 59.5 x 42 cm.

• Presentation of Pope Leo’s Encyclical Letter “Magnifica humanitas”, on May 25

• Sydney Film Festival runs from June 3 - 14. Some interesting sounds documentaries in the program including Silenced

• Maybe the World Will Muddle Through Somehow, M. Sriram reviews The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, by Sebastian Mallaby, via LARB

• New season of Keep The Meter Running with Kareem Rahma

• Meet Patrick Rosal, the resident poet at Guggenheim New York who wants to bring the community together, via Wallpaper

• Art and Architecture Janet Holmes à Court AC, on Big Design Adventure

• Looking forward to a new book by Sara Baume, Opening Night

• Rights require money, by Attiya Waris, via Aeon… The next generation of policymakers faces a choice. They can continue to reach for the complex, incidental, micro-level interventions that fit neatly into a donor report and produce measurable outputs in a three-year programme cycle. Or they can do the large, structural, unglamorous work: a sovereign debt workout mechanism that is fast, rights-based and predictable; global tax rules that reflect where value is genuinely created; transparency as a legal requirement rather than a diplomatic courtesy.

• origo, by Delcy Morelos, via the Barbican. Interviewed on the latest episode of Konfekt Korner.

• How My Garden Grows: Behind the scenes at Great Dixter, one of Britain’s best-loved gardens, via the Modern House