FYI #11

Tacita Dean, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting, 2021, location photograph, 16mm colour film, optical sound, continuous loop, image courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris and Los Angeles © the artist, photograph: Mathew Hale

• Sydney people: the Tacita Dean exhibition is open at the MCA until March 3. The film works aren’t short so you need time if you want to dig into those. I enjoyed her 2021 film, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting, a dialogue between artists Luchita Hurtado (1920 - 2020) and Julie Mehretu (1970 - ).

• Paramore, the National, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, and More Announced for A24’s New Stop Making Sense Tribute Album, and Billy Joel Returns With “Turn the Lights Back On,” First New Song in 17 Years, both via Pitchfork

• Profile of Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music Group, ‘Inside the music industry’s high stakes A.I. experiments’, via the New Yorker

• The last episode of the Book Chat podcast, with Pandora Sykes and Bobby Palmer, discussing Stoner by John Williams and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Stoner was recommended to me by a lovely bookish guest at a wedding ten years ago. At the time I was surprised I hadn’t heard of it and then I started hearing about it everywhere.

• ‘The Internet might have an overflow of curation, but it also doesn’t have enough of it, in the sense of long-term stewardship, organisation, and contextualisation of content - all processes that have been outsourced to algorithms.’ (pg. 243) — Kyle Chayka’s thought on curation, in his new book, Filterworld: how algorithms flattened culture, are interesting.

• ‘Too Enjoyable to Be Literature’, Helen Garner on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, via the Paris Review

• Victoria's Squeaky Beach named Australia's best beach for 2024, via ABC News