FYI #90
Looking forward to The Roses, with Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, directed by Jay Roach, screenplay by Tony McNamara
Afghanistan: Ten facts about the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis, via UN Women
Media Freedom Coalition Statement on Foreign Media Access to Gaza
The President of Guyana: The Fastest Growing Economy in the World, Irfaan Ali, on Leading
The Girl with the Blue Dog: My Fairytale Memoir Begins on Substack, by Anna Iltnere, via the Sea Library
This program sounded interesting… Summer Symposium, via Bathers Library (Oakland, CA)
Pekka Kuusisto: Legends & Luminaries, a highlight from the 2026 ACO season
Nduduzo Makhathini: Tiny Desk Concert, via NPR.
Australian World Heritage Residency, via Creative Australia, Minister for the Arts media release. Jonathan Jones’ project sounds wonderful..
Artist Jonathan Jones - will live on Wiradyuri Country within the Gardens of Stone National Park in the Greater Blue Mountains for 21 days alongside elders and environmentalists to learn about the site and the issues faced by the changing climate from both a Wiradyuri and Western science perspective. Reflecting on familial cultural connections to the region and its uniqueness, Jonathan’s residency will include the creative production of nature tracks and a series of free public talks.
Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading, via the Guardian
How to Watch a Movie, Vinson Cunningham & Richard Brody via The New Yorker’s Critics at Large.
Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1), interesting series of the Empire podcast, based on historian & film maker Sam Dalrymple’s book, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Mise en place: the bold re-imagining of a Victorian house in east London by a pair of seasoned restaurateurs, via Modern House
A Paris Pied-à-Terre Inspired by the South of France, via Never Too Small
Trailer for Black Rabbit, starring Jude Law & Jason Bateman, via Netflix
New work by Camille Laddawan
Jeff Tweedy invites people to contribute lyrics to a new song, Feel Free
anish kapoor and greenpeace flood liquid on shell’s platform, via designboom