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2025
November: Revising / Rendering
  • Essay on Zelda Fitzgerald: Always Reaching: Anne Truit
  • Happiness & Love: Zoe Dubno (not enjoying this but going to keep going)
  • Listening to Jessica Pratt again, Big Science Laurie Anderson
  • Thinking about public sculpture: "Hideousness, as much as worry or poverty, is part of the price we pay for our slavery to the motive of private profit."
  • The poetics of everyday language, Agnes Martin (Again), 
October: Sensing, Feeling, Moving
  • Internet Archive: Destination Dallas, A History of Railroads in Dallas, History of Flower Mound, & The development of Dallas
  • SFMOMA 75 Reasons to Live
  • Lots of Broadcast, HaHa Sound, Moin, CAN, Joanne Robertson
  • Agnes Varda Shorts, Paris Review: The Mind in Solitude: An Interview with Claire-Louise Bennett, Beckett: First Love Collection of Short Stories
  • 1997-09-02 Coast To Coast - Merle Haggard - Internet Archive, Kaleb Horton: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield, Ken Burns: Doc on Country Music
  • Maybe Mary becomes Subprime Mortgage
September: Language games
  • Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valley Curtain & Running Fence Docs, The Box Tree Skuli  Sverrison, Burden of  Dreams
  • Jane Hammond &  John Ashbery, Oulipo, 
August: Cities in Space
  • Potemkin Village
  • Perfection: Vincenzo Latronico, Agota kristof: The notebook,The Beauty of Light: An Interview, Book by Etel Adnan and Laure Adler
  •  Incendiary: La Review of Books, Sam Kriss: American Idols, Antony Gormley with Amanda Gluibizzi: The Brooklyn Rail 
  • American Visions Robert Hughes (never got to this) 
July: Not Knowing
  • Alien Hearts: Guy Maupassant (quit), Not Knowing: Donald Bartheleme, City of Quartz (ongoing) 
  • Light & architecture: Dan Flavin & Donald Judd (ongoing), Pictures of Cars, Crumb (film)
June:  Against Summer
  • Dave Hickey: Air Guitar, Women in Art, Jarrett Earnest on Dave Hickey in LA review of Book’s
  • Media Burn: Ant Farm and the making of an image
  • Ed Jones: Nine Years Behind the Wheel 
May: ChainMail
  • John Held Junior: Mail Art, V. Vale Research books: Pranks, Industrial Culture, Goals of Life, How to Read Burroughs, Ray Johnson: How to Draw A bunny
  • Modern Nature Derek Jarman: Narcissus and daffodils, Powell Gardens 
  • Exhibitions: Luanda–Kinshasa, Frances Woodman
  • New Yorker: Victorians & spiritualism, Simone Weil (Again) 
April: Friends & Space
  • Ruth Asawa, Agnes Pelton, Florine Stettheimer
  • Maybe Mary on Seeshas Radio Show Murmurations
  • New Bedside Lamp: Green Bankers Lamp, Red Dresser, Skipping Rocks at Russian River, Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America
  • Rauschenberg: BBC Doc, Gold Leaf Paintings, Cyanotypes
March: How They Move, Not How  They Are
  • American Movie (!!!), Paris Texas, Wings of Desire
  • Weird & The Eerie, Audre Lorde: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Frank O’hara: Personism: A Manifesto, Agnes Martin Diaries, Infinite Jest (30 pages because i couldn’t sleep)
  • The Architecture of Trees, Derek Jarman: Modern Nature
February: Much to Consider,  Just can’t remember what I considered
  • James Turrel & the Roden Crater, Turrel and the sublime, Tamara De Limpika, Smithson & Entropy
  • Annie ernaux: Exteriors
  • Maybe Mary goes to LA 
January:  Endless Return
  • Sunset Corridor at Forth Worth Modern, Peter Halley, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, Robert Smithson
  • The Shining, Happiness, American Boy: A profile of Richard Prince, Belle de Jour, The discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Poor Things
  • Re-reading a moveable feast, Re-Reading Hour of The star, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, Tropic of cancer, Stop / Speak, A breathe of Life
  • Maybe Mary Horsies & House show