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Josh Rawson (AKA Christmas Clapton), former bassist of folk-rockers The Felice Brothers; this debut was recorded by him in his Philmont, NY bedroom over three years while working various odd jobs. Rawson’s shadowy, languid music can be described as gothic folk, with delicately massaged guitars combined with glacial and carnivalesque synths, while his tremulous, drowsy baritone summons Scott Walker, Rufus Wainwright, and Jeremy Enigk (and, on the acoustic, recorded live “Raptors,” a groggier Elliott Smith). Perhaps inspired by renowned, erudite poet John Ashbery (1927-2017), who lived...

Joe Brainard for Loewe's New Menswear Collection From blazing the 1960's New York scene to writing a memoir, Joe Brainard now takes centre stage in a new collaboration with Loewe Like the first winter crocuses, the bursts of bright floral pattern scattered throughout the Loewe AW 21 menswear collection brought joy to the grey, locked-down days of January 2021. Pansies, specifically: patched onto the collar of a flannel blazer; knit across every inch of jacquard two pieces; or tumbling in a print down the centre of a dramatic, triangular-flare trouser. These motifs were quo...

13. “I remember arguing with you about John Ashbery, whom I couldn’t stand when I was in my thirties and forties. It might even have been during our first conversation in Paris, when I said I’ve never read a good Ashbery poem, and you answered by telling me a joke the comedian George Burns used to say about his friend and fellow comedian, Jack Benny.” “That I don’t remember,” Charlie said. “Remind me.” “Benny said to Burns, ‘In my whole life I’ve never had a good cup of coffee.’ And Burns replied, ‘Then how would you know?’”

This week, associate editor Zack Hatfield revisits “James Bishop: Remembering to See,” Carter Ratcliff’s 1988 feature on the unclassifiable painter, who died in February at age ninety-three. Art historian Molly Warnock reflects on Bishop’s legacy in the current issue. John Ashbery once described the art of James Bishop as “half architecture, half air.” In other words, a ruin. In his 1988 essay on the elusive painter, who was born in America but resided in France, the poet-critic Carter Ratcliff revels in the “ruined image” of Bishop’s abstraction, locating in his idiosyncrat...

Satyajit Ray “Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon,” observed Akira Kurosawa with regards to the Indian master who would have turned one hundred this May. Influenced by the poetic humanism of Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealist movement, Ray self-financed his landmark debut Pather Panchali—the first installment of his internationally celebrated Apu Trilogy, a cycle of richly humane masterworks that traces its title character’s journey from boyhood to maturity. Over the course of a long, remarkably varied career...