FYI #22

• This documentary about Noel Coward looks excellent, ‘Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward story’, narrated by Alan Cumming. \Rupert Everett is the voice of Noel Coward.

• I’ve enjoyed the first two episodes of ABC TV’s new arts program, Creative Types. Hosted by Virginia Trioli. Featuring Trent Dalton (Ep. 1) and Rafael Bonachela (Ep. 2)

• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name, by Maria Popova, via The Marginalian

• Australia’s entry at the Venice Biennale, kith and kin, by archie moore… ‘a holographic map of relations which connects life and death, people and places, circular and linear time, everywhere and everywhen to a site for quiet reflection and remembrance.’

• Archie Moore’s ‘kith and kin’ wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale, via Creative Australia

• Aboriginal language names for Art Gallery of New South Wales buildings, via the AGNSW

• Debbie Millman in conversation with New Yorker editor David Remnick on Design Matters

• Scientists Find Pristine Ecosystems on High-Seas Seamounts, via the Schmidt Ocean Institute (h/t Colossal)

• A Walk Through the East Village With Ada Calhoun, by Isaac Fitzgerald