FYI #78
Biennale of Sydney curator Hoor Al Qasimi shares title and first artists for 2026 event, via ABC News. The title of the biennale is Rememory
WHERE IT'S AT … with Daniel Humm (in conversation with Jefferson Hack)
Marina Hyde recommended Giuliano da Empoli’s 2023 novel The Wizard of the Kremlin on a recent episode of The Rest is Entertainment. Empoli’s new book, being released later this year, The Hour of the Predator, sounds interesting.
Lessons from “Sesame Street”, via the New Yorker’s Critics-at-Large
Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”, by Vinson Cunningham (one of the critics at large), via the New Yorker...’It’s an epic display of small ideas.’ Johnson’s exhibition is at the Guggenheim until January 2026. Closer to home, I’ll drop into the AGNSW to see one of Johnson’s works, The broken nine (2021).
The hidden European islands to head for this summer, via House & Garden
Mountainhead review – tech bros face off in Jesse Armstrong’s post-Succession uber-wealth satire, via the Guardian
On cultivating your creative instinct, writer Curtis Sittenfeld on the Creative Independent
The kickass power of spiritual friendships, by Dan Harris
Call to sea community around the world: Write a Letter to the Sea, via the Sea Library
Lorde on finding inspo, via Perfectly Imperfect
Sharing Screen ‘is an internet home tour series hosted by Matthew Prebeg and Kristoffer Tjalve’.
Tjalve mentioned this project in his Naive Weekly newsletter, Anežka Minaříková: Stream of Stream … Dear Listeners, “Stream of a stream” is an ongoing gathering of streams. Each stream sound is captured with an underwater microphone and uploaded to the cloud. There, the sounds of the streams — the natural flow of water — metamorphose into a steady, continuous flow of data transmitted over the internet.
Lois Dodd, on the Great Women Artists with Katy Hessel
Perfumer Maya Njie, Claridge’s archivist Kate Hudson and Khadija Aisha Ba of L’Artisane, via Konfekt Korner
Unlearning Productivity: The Radical Act of Doing Something Pointless with Christie George, on Follow the Rabbit (via You Tube).
How NPR’s Tiny Desk became the biggest stage in music, via Fast Company
Caught my eye at the libary…. Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures