2025.12.30_

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2025. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.

| Articles |

• Cory Arcangel Thinks Michel Majerus Was a Space Invader
  
• The Craft of Writing Empathy On Otherness, Analysis, and What I Learned in Clown School
  
• Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
  
• Avery Singer with Jason Rosenfeld
  
• Albert Oehlen
  
• Jennifer Packer and Hans Ulrich Obrist Discuss the Meaning and Method of Painting Today
  
• The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
  
• What’s after Post-Internet Art?
  
• What Is Post-AI Art?
  
• Richard Prince’s Wily 7-Hour ‘Deposition’ Video Is an Instant Classic
  
• It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done
  
• Looking for Alice
  
• good artists copy, ai artists ____
  
• Why we stopped making Einsteins
  
• Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
  
• How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
  
• How do you use the internet mindfully?
  
• Frank Stella Went From Bauhaus to Fun House
  
• The Painted Protest - Dean Kissick
  

| Watched |

• ART THOUGHTZ: To Catch A Millennial
  
• Richard Serra by Charlie Rose (2001)
  
• Yancey Strickler: Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
  
• Vivek Chibber: What is Socialism Today?
  
• Jesmyn Ward at Tulane Commencement 2018
  
• Robert Rauschenberg interview by Charlie Rose (1998)
  
• David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)
  
• Cosmic Sans R2 by Typface
  
• What can I learn from: Matt Bollinger
  
• What can I learn from: Morteza Khakshoor
  
• What can I learn from: Kouta Sasai
  
• What can I learn from: Sainer Etam
  
• What Does It Mean to Be a Master of Fine Art? | Scorned by Muses – Episode 14
  
• Cash Rules Everything Around Me | Scorned by Muses
  
• Painting Moves Forward??? Is It Better to Simplify???
  
• Thoughts on Contrast by Value (and Edges)
  
• Tishan Hsu in Conversation with Patrizia Dander
  
• Capitalist Techomancy – Seth Price (e-flux)
  
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  
• Jam 2000 (Various Writers)
  
• Sing Sing (2023) – Greg Kwedar
  
• The Questions Behind Drawing
  
• Art in the AI Bubble: Guns, Fences, and the Farm Crisis – Shannon Kim
  
• The Best Painting Ever – Nicolás Uribe & Daniela Ocampo
  
• No Other Choice - Park Chan-Wook
  
  

| Exhibitions |

• Oliver Laric: Metamorphosen @ERES Projects, Munich
  
• LAN by Brennan Wojtyla @TICK TACK, Antwerp
  
• Emma Webster “That Thought Might Think” @Petzel NYC
  
• Strata by Daniel Leftcourt @Campoli Presti
  
• Kolorganism by Przemysław Blejzyk @Künstlerhaus
  
• New Wave by Taewon Ahn @P21
  
• Data Streaming by Michel Majerus @Kunstverein Hamburg
  
• Frank Stella: Recent Sculpture @Jeffrey Deitch
  
• "Hand, Eye, and Soul" by Otani Workshop @Perrotin Seoul
  
• Lock 2, 4, 6 by Tony Oursler @K11 Musea, Hong Kong
  
• Jennifer Packer @Serpentine Galleries
  
• The Sleep of Reason by Sangram Majumdar @Nathalie Karg
  
  

| Albums / EPs (402) |

Deleted Spotify and other streaming services, sourced more music through Bandcamp and NTS, and tried to read more music journalism. Spending more time with each album, and not having acess to a full streaming app definitly made me enjoy each album much more.

• Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) – Jai Paul
  
• Choke Enough – Oklou
  
• I Love My Computer – Ninajirachi
  
• Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka
  
• opa*q – rei harakami
  
• Friend – james K
  
• Len Leise Edits (LL001) – Len Leise
  
• Love What Survives – Mount Kimbie
  
• Space Is Only Noise – Nicolas Jaar
  
• Moon Safari – Air
  
• The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions – Vegyn
  
• Against the Sky – Harold Budd & Brian Eno
  
• Mother – Logic1000
  
• Mika’s Laundry – Matt Champion
  

| Books |

Mostly nonfiction, related to anthropology, media ecology, and technology. I found much of it inspiring for the messaging in my painting, specifically the work of Neil Postman and Byung-Chul Han, which heavily shaped my most recent show.

• Perfection – Vincenzo Latronico
  
• The Status Game – Will Storr
  
• Bullshit Jobs – David Graeber
  
• You and Your Profile – Hans Georg Moeller
  
• Saving Beauty – Byung-Chul Han
  
• No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
  
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
  
• Apple in China – Patrick McGee
  
• Excellent Sheep – William Deresiewicz
  
• On Photography – Susan Sontag
  
• The Arts of the Beautiful – Étienne Gilson
  
• The Principles of Art – R. G. Collingwood
  
• Filterworld – Kyle Chayka
  

| Artists |

| Artists |

Discovered through group exhibitions, chance encounters with their work on Instagram, Google searches, and art books or articles. Not limited to a single medium, primarily sculpture, painting, and computation.

Avery Singer · Emma Webster · Terada Katsuya · Makiko Kudo
Seungwan Ha · Joan Mitchell · Marcello Jori · Ellsworth Kelly
Ana Clara Tito · Tomás Saraceno · Evan Penny · Luke Murphy

Yunchul Kim · Morteza Khakshoor · Benjamin Bjork Lund · Philip Guston
Jack Levine · Christian Krohg · Golucho · Liu Xiaodong
Martin Kippenberger · Cy Twombly · Julie Mehretu · Ahn Tae Won
Ken Sortais · José Quintanar · Vy Trinh · Daniel Widrig
Anna Boghiguian · Björn Schülke · Nam June Paik · Ethan Cook
Andrew Cranston · Kees Goudzwaard · Ruprecht von Kaufmann · Chaïm Soutine
Stuart Pearson Wright · Euan Uglow · Joseph Santore · Chie Fueki
Jean Dubuffet · James Owens · Ryoji Ikeda · Victor Vasarely
Jean-Pierre Latz · Gommaar Gilliams · Gim Sapi · Kevin Zucker
Devon Ojas · Clement Valla · Hiroki Tsukuda · Seth Price
Wolfgang Tillmans · Michel Majerus · Rae Klein · Phil Hale
Hwanhee Lee · Austin Martin White · Cory Arcangel · Daisey Parris
George Rouy · Ignacio Iturria · Olafur Rude · Sadamasa Motonaga
Helen Frankenthaler · Koichi Enomoto · Franz Kline · Oleksii Shcherbak
Neo Rauch · Albert Oehlen · Ben Sakoguchi · Leonardo Devito
Richard Serra · David Park · Gerard Dillon · Gerhard Richter
Ivon Hitchens · Jennifer Pochinski · Emilio Villalba · Eric Shaw
John Hoyland · Yves Tanguy · Dan Walsh · Emily Kraus
Travass Smalley · Daniel Leftcourt · Tishan Hsu · Mario Picardo
Christopher Wool · Genieve Figgis · Ben Nicholson · Bruce Nauman
Jean Tinguely · Hugo Guérin · Youri Johnson · Oliver Laric
Gensho Sugahara · Henry Moore · Moreno Schweikle · Bennett Miller
Lionel Maunz · Yehwan Song · Daul Rheem · Ahyeon Ryu
Jean-Baptiste Janisset · Hank Beyer · Alex Sizemore · Christina Bothwell
Hans Op de Beeck · Harris Rosenblum · Nicolás Lamas · Wang & Söderström
Botond Keresztesi · Tony Oursler · Teresa Fernández-Pello · Kenneth Armitage
Joep van Liefland · David Altmejd · Ivana Bašić · Levi van Gelder
Brian Oaks · Itona Westerberg · Daniel Widrig · Björn Schülke
Yunchul Kim · Evan Penny · Sterling Crispin · Taylor Ashby Hawkins
Nina Hartmann · Osang Gwon · Lu Yang · Kwak Kyungtae
Junya Watanabe · Ivana Bašić · Jeong Seongjin · JJing He
Max Freund · Simon Denny · Mario Ayala · Zhao Rundong
Jungki Baek · Chris Ro · Hyun Woo Lee · Kouta Sasai
Hugh Hayden · Eduardo Millán Sañudo · Johnson Tsang · Denis Sarazhin
Will St. John · G. V. Rodriguez · Bruno Walpoth · Frank Auerbach
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| Plans for 2026 |

• Finishing the other essays I had planned for here, inspired by Profilicity and The Status Game.

• Actually working on my SPUR grant, lmao.

• Metalable release — for the gravestone piece and keyboard.

• Meeting and finding more interesting people.

• Personal website redesign / learning more web development.

• Doing a playing card / collectible project through Vograce.

• Seeing more work in person versus online; focusing on materiality.

• Finding new mentors and keeping in touch with previous ones.

• ….

| People who inspired me in 2025 (in no particular order) |

Yuki, Keita, Maureen O'Brien, Travess Smalley, Daniel Leftcourt, Jose, Jackie, Kevin Zucker

Jiho, VJ, Rathin, Nate, Clement, Benjamin Jurgensen, Josh, Norman Paris, Tsai-ling Tseng

June Canedo de Souza, Ellery, Tyler, Brian Oaks, Luke Murphy, Ricky, Siran, Joel, Eric, Clay

Darren, Andy, Larry Paulson, Jack, Elisa, Jack Detar, Helen, Marcelo, Gabe, Cal, Leo, Oli.