FYI #30
K-h!, 2024. Glass beads, cotton. (170cm x 1,000cm) by Camille Laddawan
I loved seeing Frederick Wiseman’s documentary, MENUS-PLAISIRS - Les Troisgros, at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
This program of films screening (for free) at the Art Gallery of NSW (June - August) looks excellent - Desire lines: the films of Edward Yang.
Chaka Khan: Tiny Desk Concert, via NPR.
’Ouroboros: NGA’s polarising new four-year $14m artwork to close roads on its journey to Canberra’, by Susan Chenery, via The Guardian. Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros is on its way to its new home. A day in the life of artist Lindy Lee's dedicated team, via the National Gallery.
Guy Warren, Archibald Prize-winning Australian artist, dies aged 103, via ABC News. Warren was one of the artists in Amber Creswell Bell’s lovely survey, A Painted Landscape.
New work by artist Camille Laddawan.
Reading the room: why artists are turning their attention to interiors, by Serena Fokschaner, via House & Garden.
Why Herman Miller brought back its company magazine, via Fast Company. As someone who loves magazines and other printed things, I’m always curious to see what people are making.
‘Artistic Antidote: Improving health and wellbeing through art’, Landline (ABC TV) story on the Pinnaroo Project
Dancing On The Surface Of A Volcano, preface of Steven Johnson’s new book, The Infernal Machine: a true story of dynamite, terror, and the rise of the modern detective.
A Reviewer’s Life: The material constraints of writing criticism today, by Christine Smallwood, via The Yale Review.
New literary podcasts to add to your queue, via LitHub.
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Does Criticism Still Matter?, via the LARB Radio Hour, a conversation between hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman
Maggie Doherty on Sharing Art and Ideas: in Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics, via LitHub.
This episode of The Rest is Entertainment, with Marina Hyde and Richard Osman, includes an interesting conversation about book festival funding and boycotts. ‘I wouldn’t call it a victory’: Fossil Free Books organisers on Baillie Gifford’s exit from literary festival funding, interview, via The Guardian.
Two part conversation with Jon Stewart on The Town with Matthew Belloni. The second half includes a discussion about AI.
Is Being a Politician the Worst Job in the World?, Rory Stewart with David Remnick on the New Yorker Radio Hour