FYI #76
Ira Glass Returns: Ira Tries Stand-Up Comedy (For Real), on Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
for venice biennale 2026, US government now requires art to promote its 'american values', via Design Boom
‘Cultivating a readership who will move with you in the precarity of the current media economy seems to be a necessary chore.’.. There's a new media model, by Kyle Chayka, via One Thing.
Leading with Humility: Imagining a Different Kind of Government, via the Centre for Public Impact.. ‘As crises become more complex and trust in institutions declines, the ability to lead with humility, openness, and adaptability will be crucial for governments to navigate the increasingly volatile environments.’
Discover Australia’s smallest museums, and the strange treasures they hold, via It’s Nice That. Small Museum by Simone Rosenbauer
Wes Anderson: The Archives, exhibition opening later this year at the Design Museum (London)
This Naturalistic Garden Experiments With Plants From Around The World, via the Design Files… introduced me to the word ‘inflorescences’…. ‘a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches… the flowering structure of the plant’
The Translator’s Dilemma: Thinking Versus Doing?, by Lawrence Venuti, via Public Books … ‘to understand translation in a way that matters, we need to think of it as endless interpretation, endlessly variable, endlessly innovative’
Dua’s Monthly Read for May 2025, via Service95… Still Born, by Guadalupe Nettel. Pleased to have been introduced to this writer’s work.
Internet Phone Book… An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025. Made by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost.
Is a River Alive?, by Mark Dery, via 4Columns. A review of Robert MacFarlane’s new book