I’m buzzed on cheap white wine and the heady smell of wood smoke drifting in from a bonfire two or three houses down. This is essential. ...

Lydia Ainsworth..................................... White Shadows Woodkid.................................................. Conquest...

The research and discovery process for writing a dissertation in contemporary art history (and perhaps for other fields?) is akin to baili...

Bear’s Den…............................................. My Lair Jesca Hoop….................................... The Kingdom Bon Ive...

Everything and nothing happened this summer. I turned 25 and I taught a summer class at my university, but mostly I just struggled with my d...

August I have known summer least and loved it best, of all seasons—so swollen and drowsy in my toughest cradle—I nearly missed it. It was as...

Youth Lagoon............................. Afternoon Phantogram….…........................ When I’m Small Elliot Smith…..............

As I've said before ( here and here ), Ryan McGinley’s photographs were made for high summer, and I’m a little premature in posting s...

Air………………...…..… High School Lover Heartless Bastards…. The Arrow Killed the Beast CocoRosie………..….. R.I.P. Burn Face Chelsea Wol...

Mutts We were pacing, cross-eyed from the bars of our cage as we looked at the animals, telling them from a distance That we loved the...

My grandmother was a profoundly kindhearted person whose only demands from life were great-grand-children, and time to paint. The last tim...

I’m the kind of person who ignores aches and pains and sniffles and spasms and twinges and wobbles and chills. If there is any conceivable w...

Antony and the Johnsons........ Angel on Fire Arcade Fire........................... Normal Person Vampire Weekend................. Ha...

Mutual Benefit................... Advanced Falconry David Bowie……………...... Space Oddity Rhye…………………......…… Open Heartless Bastards…...

Writing, as I do, on Chiharu Shiota, I tend to have a bit of a soft spot for large-scale installations that use thread to transform space. S...

The humanoids of Pierre Julien Fieux’s Are You Human? (CAPTCHA) project are, by turns, stolid, startled, and contentious. They expect th...