FYI #73
Laura Olin’s latest newsletter introduced me to this work by one of my favourite artists, Cy Twombly, (1928 - 2011), Some Trees of Italy, 1974
Shortlists for the 2025 Stella Prize and the International Booker Prize 2025
This lovely company, Like Butter, made the bookshelves in my apartment. They’re super committed to closing the loop in their manufacturing process, this new report is an example, Plywood Sawdust Composting Report
Dua Lipa In Conversation With Max Porter, Author Of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, via Service95. I love the warmth & energy of this conversation.
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, soon to be published, written by Francesca Wade. Wade’s book Square Haunting (2021) was excellent.
My talented friend Nina Walton has a work in this show at NAS (Sydney), Gesture and Trace. Open until 2 May.
How To Be Sanely Productive | Oliver Burkeman, 10% Happier with Dan Harris
The new season of Creative Types with Virginia Trioli includes a conversation with the ACO’s Richard Tognetti, via ABC iView.
Why an Australian journalist is teaching meditation in America's toughest jails, via ABC Compass
Lauren O.’s Manhattan Apartment Is a Love Letter to Rituals, via Cup of Jo
Dolly Alderton to Write Pride and Prejudice Starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden, via Netflix
Looking forward to reading Katie Kitamura’s new novel, Audition. Reviewed in the LA Review of Books, by Grace Linden. Also on the New Yorker Radio Hour
Colum McCann on the Arts in Question, on the First Draft podcast. McCann is speaking in Sydney next month at UNSW.
Fighting the Broligarchy, interesting line-up of guest lecturers for this course by Dark Times Acacdemy (NZ)