I talked to Laurie Anderson about some interesting stuff ... including Arthur Russell and ticks.

I went back to Iceland, one of my favorite places in the world, for a festival that left me spellbound. Scents by Fischersund, video art by Björk, a dance/music/theater piece about tennis, a new 19th-century vagabond to revere, and a visit to the most remote art museum I've ever visited by far...

I interviewed someone I've long wanted to talk to—and got to commune over the Daft Punk show in Coney Island!

I went to the first night of Radiohead's new multimedia extravaganza in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

I talked to an artist whose photos really stop me in my tracks.

I talked to Lucy Raven about rushing water, whirring drones, and Mad Max: Fury Road. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Did as I was told, and… well, these past few weeks have been really, really tough in so many ways, and this just busted me wide open.

I talked to Devon Turnbull, aka OJAS, about his new listening room at the Cooper Hewitt www.artnews.com/artnews/news...

Anyone waiting to buy one of these for me can do so now...

I want one of these! www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

This is worth hearing/seeing if you can, more performances into next week www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Artists/bands with most albums in my collection: John Coltrane Miles Davis Duke Ellington Brian Eno Ella Fitzgerald Grateful Dead Theo Parrish R.E.M. Frank Sinatra Stereolab Sun Ra

Just got a press release for an event “shaping up to be the most Instagrammable evening of the summer.”

I talked to the one and only Justin Vivian Bond about art, music, and strategies for maintaining something like sanity in an age of derangement. www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

Wrote about a new artwork by Kevin Beasley inspired in part by World War I-era defense walls that did in fact have ears.

Unbelievable lack of perspective | “Markets have best day in 16 years" ... "are still below where they were before the president announced his massive tariff strategy"

This is quite a list—so much to savor. (And I wrote blurbs for works by Christian Marclay, Matthew Barney, Delcy Morelos, Ragnar Kjartansson, Paul Chan, Pierre Huyghe, and Santiago Yahuarcani.)

Interviewing David Lynch for The A.V. Club was a top-five career highlight for sure. Having just seen one for the first time earlier that day, I brought him the surreal citrus fruit known as the Buddha's Hand ... he liked it and put it in a bowl between us for a centerpiece while we talked

I sat next to David Lynch's brother and sister at a gallery dinner once and they were awesome. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

I wrote about "The Bitch," a really wild show of art by Matthew Barney and Alex Katz at the ever-enigmatic O'Flaherty's gallery on the Lower East Side. Two legends make more sense together than might be expected... www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

I talked to Jonathan Lethem about his new book of writings about art. Topics include Vulcan mind-melds, bookshelves as installations, Gregory Crewsdon, a weird Egyptian lips thing, Donald Barthelme, and more. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Gets incrementally better and better…

Is there any worse self-own than hitting snooze, then proceeding to have an absolutely face-melting nightmare during the ten extra minutes

I wrote about the opening of a big Jeffrey Gibson exhibition very worth seeing at MASS MoCA, a spirited two-spirit affair (that'll be there over 19,000 square feet for a year...) www.artnews.com/art-news/art...