April 18, 2024 : Wondercab Mini (65A)
This, that, and the others
We’ll be picking up on the second half of our Kindergarten diptych next week. In the meantime, there’s
This:
Art Spiegelman and Dan Nadal discuss Si Lewen
at the James Cohan Gallery
For those of you who missed the terrific jam-packed conversation between Art Spiegelman and Dan Nadel about the late nonagenarian marvel Si Lewin a few weeks back at the James Cohan Gallery in Tribeca,
not to worry, here’s a link to the audio (well worth a listen), and you can explore several of the images here and here. And best of all, the show itself is still up through Saturday April 27, and seriously, don’t miss it! And a quick newsflash as we go to press, the New York Times just dropped its review of the Lewen show, and it’s a smart rave.
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That:
Ren Weschler in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid about her roots, work, and years at the New Yorker,
at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2014
Apropos of nothing in particular except that I just happened to come upon it once again the other day and Jamaica, as ever, is just so fetchingly vivid and endlessly pertinent, here’s a link to our conversation at the Chicago Humanities Festival almost ten years ago, in October 14, 2014. What a voice.
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& the (upcoming) Others:
ONE:
This coming Saturday evening, April 20, at 5:00 p.m.,
Ren in conversation with David Lebrun
following screenings of a medley of films from his current Transfigurations series, at MoMI, in Queens
Remember this over-the-top fantastic short video from early on in our Wondercabinet series?
No? Well, not to worry, you can reprise it here. At which point, all I will need to tell you is that there are a whole lot more like that from David Lebrun’s epic ongoing Transfigurations project, several of which will be being screened on the last evening of the Museum of the Moving Image’s three-program Lebrun retrospective in Queens, at the end of which Lebrun will converse with Ren about what the hell he is up to with all of them. 5 pm. (For that matter, for the full schedule of the entire two-day/three-program LeBrun retrospective, featuring all manner of sly and canny marvels, April 19-20, see here.) Be there and be glad!
& then,
TWO:
2) Wednesday, May 1:
Ren in conversation with Blaise Agüera y Arcas
in Manhattan around the Google Tech maven’s new book
Who Are We Now?
McNally Jackson’s Prince Street store 6:30 p.m.
Sample pages from the book here and find out more about the event here. And for more on Blaise Agüera y Arcas generally, see our back issues 17, 18, and 19.
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See you there in the days ahead, and here next week!