Brian
@sholis.com
Chicagoan in Toronto, art worker, autodidact, dad. This is mostly a read-and-reply account. More about me at sholis.com; I’m also building valise.works for artists.
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I don’t say this often enough: my friend Ross and I are building Valise, the best inventory software for artists. We want it to be easy to keep track of your work; the admin side of running a studio shouldn’t be difficult, and information is power. Please share with artists you know!
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valise.works
Today is publication day for my dear friend @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social’s new @versobooks.bsky.social book “The War of Art.” It is great! You should click this link and learn more and then buy it or order it from your library! www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...
The War of Art
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debat...
www.versobooks.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today is publication day for my dear friend @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social’s new @versobooks.bsky.social book “The War of Art.” It is great! You should click this link and learn more and then buy it or order it from your library! www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...
Every Friday morning, I set aside time to open @mactanaka.bsky.social’s wonderful app MusicHarbor, which is like an RSS reader for Apple Music, and sort through new releases from the 1,000+ artists I follow. This morning I feel especially blessed.
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Every Friday morning, I set aside time to open @mactanaka.bsky.social’s wonderful app MusicHarbor, which is like an RSS reader for Apple Music, and sort through new releases from the 1,000+ artists I follow. This morning I feel especially blessed.
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!!! Thursday, July 17, 2025, 6pm !!!
Lauren O'Neill-Butler with E.C. Feiss and Ciarán Finlayson: The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest in America
What do artists' protests reveal about the possibilities for protest in our democracy? Lauren O'Neill-Butler's "The War of Art" invites us to learn, imagine, and mobilize, which we'll do together at t...
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May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
!!! Thursday, July 17, 2025, 6pm !!!
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We are launching a new exhibition project for art, its discourses, and histories in Portland Oregon above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop. societysocietysociety.com
SOCIETY
SOCIETY is a space for art and its histories and discourses above Mother Foucault's Bookshop in Portland, Oregon
societysocietysociety.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We are launching a new exhibition project for art, its discourses, and histories in Portland Oregon above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop. societysocietysociety.com
So far as I can see in these roundups, there wasn’t a single photograph on view at Independent, NADA, or ESTHER in New York last week:
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Independent New York 2025 – Art Viewer
Featured Artists: Nooshin Askari, Adam Higgins, Douglas Coupland, Nana Wolke, Zoë Carlon, Amel Bashier, Ada Patterson, Suyi Xu, Sam Mattax, Wendy White, Tincuta
artviewer.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So far as I can see in these roundups, there wasn’t a single photograph on view at Independent, NADA, or ESTHER in New York last week:
artviewer.org/independent-...
artviewer.org/nada-new-yor...
artviewer.org/esther-ii-ne...
artviewer.org/independent-...
artviewer.org/nada-new-yor...
artviewer.org/esther-ii-ne...
Toronto: @billorcutt.bsky.social (!) and Aidan Baker (!!) at Allan Gardens Conservatory (!!!) on August 9. I got tickets for me & Julia. See you there?
dice.fm/event/7daneb...
dice.fm/event/7daneb...
Bill Orcutt Tickets | CA$50.48 | 9 Aug @ Allan Gardens Children's Conservatory, Toronto | DICE
As one of experimental music's most influential guitarists, Bill Orcutt weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of A...
dice.fm
May 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Toronto: @billorcutt.bsky.social (!) and Aidan Baker (!!) at Allan Gardens Conservatory (!!!) on August 9. I got tickets for me & Julia. See you there?
dice.fm/event/7daneb...
dice.fm/event/7daneb...
Every year I think to myself: “Why don’t they just publish all of these books?” Looking forward to seeing which of these they _do_ publish.
📣 ANNOUNCING THE 2025 ESSAY PRIZE SHORTLIST 📣
TESSERAE by Phoebe Braithwaite
MY GREAT NOVEL by Cassandre Greenberg
ON REFUSAL by Sarai Kirshner
CRAPES by Hana Loftus
GULLY CRICKET by Abhinav Ullal
SHOW US THE BODY by Claire Wilmot
For more information: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/essay...
TESSERAE by Phoebe Braithwaite
MY GREAT NOVEL by Cassandre Greenberg
ON REFUSAL by Sarai Kirshner
CRAPES by Hana Loftus
GULLY CRICKET by Abhinav Ullal
SHOW US THE BODY by Claire Wilmot
For more information: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/essay...
May 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Every year I think to myself: “Why don’t they just publish all of these books?” Looking forward to seeing which of these they _do_ publish.
If you’re in Toronto, consider joining us! Julia and our friend Rhiann helped our neighbours make their papier-mâché sculptures, and a similar parade along the rail path last year was lots of (family-friendly) fun.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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The Junction Triangle Parade - Spacing Toronto
Two dedicated community organizations, Friends of West Toronto Rail Path and Angry Locals, are coming together to host a vibrant and meaningful parade on May 29th, 2025 in Toronto’s Junction Triangle ...
spacing.ca
May 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you’re in Toronto, consider joining us! Julia and our friend Rhiann helped our neighbours make their papier-mâché sculptures, and a similar parade along the rail path last year was lots of (family-friendly) fun.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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one of the fundamental problems of our culture is that we treat the time from college graduation to retirement as homogenous and undifferentiated. a saner society would break it up with age-based sabbaticals, holidays, retreats, initiations, and educational interludes.
May 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
one of the fundamental problems of our culture is that we treat the time from college graduation to retirement as homogenous and undifferentiated. a saner society would break it up with age-based sabbaticals, holidays, retreats, initiations, and educational interludes.
“Different Rooms is meant to meet you where you are. It’s a decidedly urban album. The field recordings were captured on train platforms, in city streets, in rooms at home …”
The lead single off Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer’s new album is enticing: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
The lead single off Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer’s new album is enticing: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
Different Rooms, by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
10 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“Different Rooms is meant to meet you where you are. It’s a decidedly urban album. The field recordings were captured on train platforms, in city streets, in rooms at home …”
The lead single off Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer’s new album is enticing: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
The lead single off Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer’s new album is enticing: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/differ...
Jim Nill trying to single-handedly make DFW feel better about Nico Harrison and, for tonight at least, succeeding.
MIKKO RANTANEN GETS THE HAT TRICK TO PUT THE SERIES AWAY IN A WILD GAME 7 COMEBACK WIN FOR THE STARS!
Sean McDonough (voice cracking): "RANTANEN AGAIN! UNBELIEVABLE! A LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE BY RANTANEN AGAINST HIS FORMER TEAM!" 🏒🚨🚨🚨🎙️ #NHL
Sean McDonough (voice cracking): "RANTANEN AGAIN! UNBELIEVABLE! A LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE BY RANTANEN AGAINST HIS FORMER TEAM!" 🏒🚨🚨🚨🎙️ #NHL
May 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Jim Nill trying to single-handedly make DFW feel better about Nico Harrison and, for tonight at least, succeeding.
If you see this
Post your getaway vehicle
Post your getaway vehicle
May 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you see this
Post your getaway vehicle
Post your getaway vehicle
Can’t see this record falling out of my top ten during the rest of the year. Jamal Moss is so, so good. Chicago represent!
Smalltown Supersound keeps nailing it as it increasingly reaches beyond Norway for new artists to add to the roster.
hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
Smalltown Supersound keeps nailing it as it increasingly reaches beyond Norway for new artists to add to the roster.
hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
Dance Music 4 Bad People, by Hieroglyphic Being
8 track album
hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Can’t see this record falling out of my top ten during the rest of the year. Jamal Moss is so, so good. Chicago represent!
Smalltown Supersound keeps nailing it as it increasingly reaches beyond Norway for new artists to add to the roster.
hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
Smalltown Supersound keeps nailing it as it increasingly reaches beyond Norway for new artists to add to the roster.
hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-...
Love Emily Braun’s idea to have twenty-four writers each describing an hour spent with Christian Marclay’s “The Clock.”
I’m going to dole these out to myself, one per day: brooklynrail.org/2025/05/crit...
I’m going to dole these out to myself, one per day: brooklynrail.org/2025/05/crit...
Keeping Time with Christian Marclay’s The Clock | The Brooklyn Rail
There have been many single-author pieces on The Clock, but I wanted to juxtapose different voices, expertise, and ages (spanning six decades) in response to its montage fabric and temporal structure....
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May 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Love Emily Braun’s idea to have twenty-four writers each describing an hour spent with Christian Marclay’s “The Clock.”
I’m going to dole these out to myself, one per day: brooklynrail.org/2025/05/crit...
I’m going to dole these out to myself, one per day: brooklynrail.org/2025/05/crit...
For years I’ve waited for a New York gallery to give the German photographer Jochen Lempert a solo show. I love his work (and live with examples of it) and I’m excited that Anton Kern is opening a show on May 6. It’s not on the gallery website yet, but it’s at their main 55th St. space. Recommended!
April 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
For years I’ve waited for a New York gallery to give the German photographer Jochen Lempert a solo show. I love his work (and live with examples of it) and I’m excited that Anton Kern is opening a show on May 6. It’s not on the gallery website yet, but it’s at their main 55th St. space. Recommended!
I don’t know what’s going on with this Eva Kot’átková exhibition in a palace in Vilnius, but I’m definitely intrigued …
Images via: www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eva-...
Images via: www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eva-...
April 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I don’t know what’s going on with this Eva Kot’átková exhibition in a palace in Vilnius, but I’m definitely intrigued …
Images via: www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eva-...
Images via: www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eva-...
I was late to the Lisa Oppenheim show, but too early to shop the Eckhaus Latta look, so I blogged about it.
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www.sholis.com/blog/lisa-op...
Lisa Oppenheim at MUDAM Luxembourg
Late to the show, too early to shop the look …
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April 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I was late to the Lisa Oppenheim show, but too early to shop the Eckhaus Latta look, so I blogged about it.
www.sholis.com/blog/lisa-op...
www.sholis.com/blog/lisa-op...
My friend Lucas Foglia has just released a beautiful new photobook, “Constant Bloom,” which tracks the migration of Painted Lady butterflies across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. A week from today he opens a show of the photos at Fredericks & Freiser in NYC. Links below 👇🏻
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My friend Lucas Foglia has just released a beautiful new photobook, “Constant Bloom,” which tracks the migration of Painted Lady butterflies across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. A week from today he opens a show of the photos at Fredericks & Freiser in NYC. Links below 👇🏻
“We’re fact-checking because we want to represent the world accurately. We’re also fact-checking because we are trying to have a piece that works on its own terms.” An interview with Fergus McIntosh, head of the @newyorker.com’s fact-checking department.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
One Wonders | Fergus McIntosh, Merve Emre
Fergus McIntosh is head of the fact-checking department at The New Yorker. He is also the first fact-checker I ever worked with at the magazine, for an
www.nybooks.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“We’re fact-checking because we want to represent the world accurately. We’re also fact-checking because we are trying to have a piece that works on its own terms.” An interview with Fergus McIntosh, head of the @newyorker.com’s fact-checking department.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
As someone who values artists, publications, ephemera, and artists’ books and editions, it was a no-brainer when @iamasq.bsky.social nominated me to join Art Metropole’s board. I’ve just begun serving my (first?) two-year term. 🎉
April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As someone who values artists, publications, ephemera, and artists’ books and editions, it was a no-brainer when @iamasq.bsky.social nominated me to join Art Metropole’s board. I’ve just begun serving my (first?) two-year term. 🎉
I wondered what kind of self-portrait would emerge from my browser’s autocomplete feature. Now I know: it’s pretty accurate.
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www.sholis.com/blog/my-digi...
My Digital A–Z Portrait
The sites my browser has committed to memory
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April 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I wondered what kind of self-portrait would emerge from my browser’s autocomplete feature. Now I know: it’s pretty accurate.
www.sholis.com/blog/my-digi...
www.sholis.com/blog/my-digi...
This 1842 cottage an hour north of Hobart, Australia is for sale. I’m in Canada, so I’ll need a partner who can put up some money and time-share it with me. Anyone in?
thedesignfiles.net/2025/04/on-t...
More images & plans: www.are.na/brian-s-arch...
thedesignfiles.net/2025/04/on-t...
More images & plans: www.are.na/brian-s-arch...
April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This 1842 cottage an hour north of Hobart, Australia is for sale. I’m in Canada, so I’ll need a partner who can put up some money and time-share it with me. Anyone in?
thedesignfiles.net/2025/04/on-t...
More images & plans: www.are.na/brian-s-arch...
thedesignfiles.net/2025/04/on-t...
More images & plans: www.are.na/brian-s-arch...
Toronto: two weeks remain to see the exhibition at Cooper Cole featuring Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph. It’s one of my favorites in the city right now. For those who can’t go in person, Art Viewer has you covered: artviewer.org/hangama-amir...
Hangama Amiri & Melissa Joseph at COOPER COLE, Toronto – Art Viewer
COOPER COLE is pleased to present Gathering, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph. Through fibre, cloth, and the inti
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April 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Toronto: two weeks remain to see the exhibition at Cooper Cole featuring Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph. It’s one of my favorites in the city right now. For those who can’t go in person, Art Viewer has you covered: artviewer.org/hangama-amir...
Last week, driving into Montreal, @rosszurowski.com and I noticed vibrant Club Piscine signage along a busy road. This morning I realize that brand is getting an update from Caserne, perhaps Canada’s hippest design studio. Interesting to see the firm doing more straightforward/corporate work.
April 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Last week, driving into Montreal, @rosszurowski.com and I noticed vibrant Club Piscine signage along a busy road. This morning I realize that brand is getting an update from Caserne, perhaps Canada’s hippest design studio. Interesting to see the firm doing more straightforward/corporate work.
This wonderful, thought-provoking essay also serves as a preview of Blaise’s forthcoming “What Is Intelligence?,” out in September from @mitpress.bsky.social. I’m proofing this book now and it has changed so much about how I think about computers, other species, brains, relationships …
Just as Copernicus shifted our cosmic view, AI is driving a paradigm shift in understanding intelligence. Today in @noemamag.com, I’ve published a piece with my colleague James Manyika that explores five interrelated paradigm shifts to consider, moving us beyond current AI techniques and debate.
AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence | NOEMA
Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.
www.noemamag.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This wonderful, thought-provoking essay also serves as a preview of Blaise’s forthcoming “What Is Intelligence?,” out in September from @mitpress.bsky.social. I’m proofing this book now and it has changed so much about how I think about computers, other species, brains, relationships …