- Dan Graham and Music by Bob Nickas

- Harmony Holiday Interviewed by Sophie Abramowitz

- Yvonne Jacquette at Karma by Albert Mobilio

- Arjan Martins: Portfolio and interview

- Album picks by 14 New York artists

- Alix Cléo Roubaud at Galerie Buchholz by Asha Schechter

- Poetry by Aaron Fagan

- Anna Gregor at D.D.D.D. by Justin Kamp 

- Tim & Barry at Harlesden High Street by Mabel Woodley

“Most music should be live and spontaneous from now on, to deter artificial intelligence and other, less salient grifts.” So writes Harmony Holiday in a recent post on her Substack, Black Music and Black Muses, describing a possible antidote to the numbing effect of the scroll, the stream, and the feed. In this issue, Holiday speaks to music writer and researcher Sophie Abramowitz about parallels between writing, dance, and live performance, while making a case for a writer’s life independent from academia and the attention economy.

For our feature titled “Listening In,” we’ve invited artists to share their thoughts about albums with special importance to them. When it comes to music, everyone now has an opinion, or at least a playlist to share. One artist who always had both, and before Spotify reshuffled our listening lives, was the late Dan Graham. In his contribution to this issue, Graham’s friend Bob Nickas reflects on the importance of mixtapes, playlists, and CDRs to that philosopher of both conceptual art and popular music. We also review recent exhibitions by Yvonne Jacquette, Anna Gregor, Alix Cléo Roubaud, and Tim & Barry. 

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