FYI #16
Opening weekend of the 24th Biennale of Sydney - Ten Thousand Suns - looking forward to exploring the White Bay Power Station. Open until 10 June. I’m going to an interesting sounding panel discussion this afternoon at UNSW Galleries on Decolonial Cartographies.
TDF Collect Presents: ‘Patterns Of Country’ By Maggie Green, via The Design Files.
Tickets go on sale today for the 2024 Sydney Writers’ Festival. Take Me Away is the theme. Writers on my list include Lauren Groff and Katy Hessel.
Your Literary Guide to the 2024 Oscars, via Lit Hub. A look at the Academy Award Nominees for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay.
An edited extract from Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues, by Ross Perlin, via the Guardian.
The Protest Banner Lending Library: Democracy in the making, via Garland Magazine. Read more about Aram Han Sifuentes’ projects.
The Britannias by Alice Albinia caught my eye in my local bookshop. Her project, Suelo, sounds interesting. I love the idea of combining fictional and non-fictional forms to investigate a subject.
A conversation with Eric Klinenberg about his new book, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, via Public Books. I enjoyed his last book, Palaces for the People.
Why We Love an Office Drama, via the New Yorker’s Critics at Large podcast.
‘The limits of the medium are precisely what call forth the creative effort. They are what create the conditions that make art possible.’, L.M. Sacasas on the art of living, via The Convivial Society.
Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI, via Pretty Heady Stuff. Not a recent episode but the podcast, hosted by Scott Stoneman, is new to me.
Essay by Ted Gioia, The State of the Culture, 2024, via The Honest Broker. Gioia criticises what he describes as the ‘dopamine cartel’.
Design Doyenne Iris Apfel Has Died at 102 (1921 - 2024), via Vogue.
The Money and Power Behind the Oscars’ Red Carpet, featuring fashion journalist Lauren Sherman, via The Town with Matthew Belloni. Includes mention of a New York Times profile of stylist, Danielle Goldberg, Quietly Dressing Hollywood’s Cool Girls, including Greta Lee, who starred in one of my favourite recent movies, Past Lives (written and directed by Celine Song).