may 2026 edition.
Sounds
- Joel St. Julien, Masking
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy, We Are Together Again
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Purple Bird
- Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive
- John Blacking: How Musical Is Man? University of Washington Venda Music Collection
Words
- Peter Burke, Ignorance: A Global History
- Jackson Lears and John Guida, “This Is What’s Behind Trump’s Relentlessness,” New York Times, 1 May 2026.
- Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory
- Marilyn Nance, Last Day in Lagos
- Sol LeWitt, Photogrids
- Michelle White, ed., Robert Rauschenberg Fabric Works of the 1970s
- Hugh Ryan, My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond
- Elisabeth Schellekens and Guy Dammann. “The End of the Critic and the Rise of the New Gatekeepers.” IAI News, 7 May 2026
- Dwight Garner, “Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?”, New York Times, 27 April 2026
- Daniel Bessner, “Power without Ideology: Welcome to the Multipolar World,” The Ideas Letter, 30 April 2026
- https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/power-without-ideology/.
- Sophina Clark and Daniel Judt, “A Half-Century of Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital,” Jacobin, January 2025
- Samuel Moyn, “The Old Guard: Confronting America’s Gerontocratic Crisis.” Harper’s Magazine, May 2026
- Bruce Robbins, “More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI,” Critical AI 4, 1 (2026)
- Michael J. Brown, “Review: Public Humanities: Engaging Community, Empowering Civic Discourse, and Reshaping Academia, Edited by Molly Todd and Jason E Cohen,” The Public Historian 48, 2 (2026): 179–81
- Tom D. Crouch, Smithson’s Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906
- Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
- Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work
- Benjamin Moser, The Upside-down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters
- Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
- Greil Marcus, Ranters and Crowd Pleasers Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
- Mimi Haddon, What Is Post-Punk?: Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82
- Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-84
- David Wilkinson, Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain
- Stephen Winick, “The First Musical Evening Sponsored by the American Folklife Center (Part 1),” Folklife Today: The Library of Congress, 18 May 2026
- Stephen Winick,“The First Musical Evening Sponsored by the American Folklife Center (Part 2),” Folklife Today: The Library of Congress, 26 May 2026
- Mae Losasso, “Why James Schuyler Is the Poet for Right Now,” Yale Review, Spring 2026
Walls
- John Akomfrah, The Hour Of The Dog @ Menil Collection
- [Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11 @ Crocker Art Museum](https://www.crockerart.org/blog/post/black-artists-in-america-from-the-bicentennial-to-september-11)
- New Humans: Memories of the Future @ New Museum
- Raphael: Sublime Poetry @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Sixties Surreal @ Whitney Museum of American Art
- Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection @ Morgan Library
- [A Beautiful Experience: The Midwest Grotto Tradition @ John Michael Kohler Arts Center](https://research.jmkac.org/exhibition/a-beautiful-experience/)
- Brain Drawings: The Art of Harry Smith @ The Hansell Gallery at The Philosophical Research Society
- Claudia Doring Baez, Paris in My Head @ Bookstein Projects
- Vija Clemins, Prints 1983 to 1985 @ Matthew Marks Gallery
- Trina Michelle Robinson, Open Your Eyes to Water! @ Root Division and 500 Capp Street
- Scandalous: Women in Surrealism @ Richard Saltoun Gallery
- Heather Mekkelson, bass note @ 65 Grand Gallery
- Wayne Liu, Time Past & Time Present @ Visual Studies Workshop
- Manet & Morisot @ Cleveland Museum of Art
- Martin Puryear: Nexus @ Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rashid Johnson, The Hikers @ Memorial Art Gallery
- Palomar (Part 1) @ Renaissance Society
Stages
- Tariffs in Historicial Perspective @ OAH, 5 May 2026
- America in Flux: Politics at the Closing of the Cold War @ OAH, 5 May 2026
- Cold War, Prosperity, and Civil Rights @ OAH, 5 May 2026
- Whitney Johnson / Lia Kohl / Macie Stewart Record Release w/ Kari Watson @ Constellation Chicago, 7 May 2026
- Félicia Atkinson @ Logan Center for the Arts, 8 May 2026
- Quito J. Swan, “Black Internationalism, Oceania and the Caribbean,” Global Sixties Colloquium, 11 May 2026
- Sam Prekop & John McEntire w/ Jungle Boogie @ Constellation Chicago, 16 May 2026
- Elastro: HUMACHINE UNLEARN67NG @ Elastic ARts, 22 May 2026
- A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem @ Theater of War on the Radio, 27 May 2026
- Remembering Leslie Fiedler: A Conversation with Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian @ SUNY Press, 14 May 2026
- Marc Stein, “Queer Public History Today” @ RIT, 14 May 2026
- A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros @ Roulette, 22 May 2026
Screens
- Your Friends and Neighbors, Seasons 01 and 02
- Citadel, Season 02
- Parque Lezama
- Ways of Seeing with John Berger