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#16 'An emergency exit to another realm'
On being art, making work into your 90s, having desk talismans and productively thinking of nothing
end-of-week treats #8
It’s still only January 24th, but, to paraphrase Toby Ziegler, in the three weeks this year has had me on its radar, I have aged 48 years
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#15 'When the eyes are shut, they are extraordinarily open'
On quicksands and saplings, snowflakes and sycamores, mackerel skies and mulberry fields — and Park Jiha's new album, All Living Things
Back-to-school treats: 'The unknown before us'
Painted hills, a girl singing in the sky, boys staring out to sea, a man shrinking a tree
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December 2024

#14 How to make a Christmas tree—an experiment in light and tenderness
For my last letter before the holidays, I wanted to give you a poem, a list, some tunes, three book recommendations and my recipe for an arbre de Noël…
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End-of-week treats #7: 'You yet holding on?'
Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Robert Glasper, the Roots, Mahalia Jackson, Derrick Hodge, Meshell Ndegeocello–and why I love Chicago
INTERVIEW An Art Institute of Chicago curator on Pan-Africanism as a fruitful idea—and an aesthetic
The new Project a Black Planet exhibition looks at how a constellation of artists from all over the world have engaged with ideas of Black liberation
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#13 'My heart is beating so fast'
Ponyo's Lisa, Shaun Tan's Sphinx, and other moments of parenting—fictional and non—that get me through days of fear or overwhelm
INTERVIEW The tattoed maverick whose job it's been to bring Notre-Dame back
The quasi-ecclesiastical fervour that has gripped the world's media at the sight of the cathedral remade will fade, though not for Philippe…
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November 2024

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