february 2026 edition.
Sounds
- César Bolaños, “Flexum,” Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
- Kenichiro Yasuda, Trois Chorals
- Toshiro Mayuzumi, “Mandara,” from Various Artists, *Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa
- Mekons, Live at Hideout, 13 July 2000, Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive
- Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy & Mark Feldman, Begin, Again
- Chris Brown & Tim Daisy, Spells Are Cast
- Kyle Bruckmann, Tim Daisy, Phillip Greenlief & Lisa Mezzacappa, Semaphore
- Vicki Ray and Eclipse Quartet, Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
- California EAR Unit, Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
- Kronos Quartet with Aki Takahashi, Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
Words
- Douglas McLennan, “The Middleware Manifesto: A Proposal for Rebuilding American Culture,” Diacritical, 16 February 2026
- Janice Ross, The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design
- Ernst Bloch, Essays on the Philosophy of Music
- Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
- Henry A. Giroux, “Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics,” Socialist Project, February 2026
- Sam Adler-Bell, “Good Enough,” The Baffler, April 2024
- Walt Hunter, “Stop Meeting Students Where They Are,” The Atlantic, 2 February 2026
- Chris A. Rasmussen, “‘How Many Black Hippies Do You See?’ The Counterculture in Black and White,” Journal of American Studies 58, 2 (2024): 275–300
- Benjamin Kunkel, “The Riotous Worlds of Thomas Pynchon,” The Nation, 10 February 10, 2026
- Greg Grandin, “Bad Bunny’s Stunning Redefinition of ‘America’,” The Nation, 10 February 2026
- Joe Z. Johnson, “This Ain’t Texas No More! Beyoncé and the Black Banjo Renaissance,” Southern Cultures 31, 4 (2025): 54–75
- Cameron Knowler, “A Fading Caricature: Riley Puckett and Country Music’s Silencing Power,” Southern Cultures 31, 4 (2025): 76–93
- Helen Shaw, “The Actress Who Disappeared Twice,” New York Times, 4 February 2026
- Rowynn Dumont, “Ghosts of the Underground: Nocturnal Life on the Marilyn Houlberg Trail,” New City, 30 January 2026
Walls
- William Eggleston, The Last Dyes @ David Zwirmer
- Marcia Marcus, Mirror Image @ Olney Gleason
- Peer Bode: Signal into Memory @ Visual Studies Workshop
- Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages @ The Cloisters
- African Art, Ancient American Art, and Oceanic Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Change, I Ching (64 Paintings) @ Renaissance Society
- SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, Chicago Architecture Biennial @ Chicago Cultural Center
- The Uncivil Canvas: Art in the Age of Discord @ Woman Made Gallery
Stages
- Merve Emre, The Function of Criticism @ The Point Magazine/University of Chicago, 4 February 2026
- Trisha Brown Company, Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown and Cunningham Onstage: Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset and Merce Cunningham’s Travelogue @ Brooklyn Academy of Music, 28 February 2025
- Dangerous Acts: Blue Blood @ Lortel Theater
- On Meyer Schapiro: Phong H. Bui and Alexander Nagel @ Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 7 February 2026
- Apocalypse: A Love Story @ The Alcove at the Lortel Theatre, 15 Feburary 2026
- In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union @ New York Historical, 16 February 2026
- Autumn Knight, NOTHING: more @ Chocolate Factory Theater, 15 January 2026
- Ruth Childs, Blast! @ Chocolate Factory Theater, 12 November 2025
- Netta Yerushalmy, Tuçe Yasak, Mieke Ulfig, Katherine Profeta, Paula Matthusen, Alla Kovgan, nothing personal, just everything @ Chocolate Theater Factory, 30 October 2025
- Electronic Echoes: Video Art from the 1970s and 80s @ Visual Studies Workshop, 26 February 2026
- Michael Foster with Strings, Zosha Warpeha @ Roulette, 11 February 2026
Screens
- Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
- Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Season 01
- Tehran, Season 03
- The Night Manager, Season 02
- Marighella
- The Secret Agent