<a href="https://miekemarple.com/live-laugh-lube/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Live, Laugh, Lube</a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;an ongoing art project by artist and former art dealer&nbsp;<a href="https://l.gourl.es/l/111c74518894eec9f000798b0a5fc9a5d085a2d0?u=8308579" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mieke Marple,</a>&nbsp;probing in the superficial depths of social media with fellow clowns, comedians, and fools.&nbsp; A kind of "exquisite corpse” project in which comedians provide language that Mieke creates a painting with, then both create a video together for IG explaining the collaboration. Mieke then gifts the painting to the participant, who must recommend two other comedians as the next participants (one with more visibility and one with less), and the cycle repeats ad infinitum. She’s so far worked with the likes of actress and comedian Melinda Hill,&nbsp;The Simpsons&nbsp;writers Dan Greaney and Broti Gupta, head writer and executive producer of&nbsp;The&nbsp;Office&nbsp;and&nbsp;King of the Hill,&nbsp;Brent Forrester, writer, actor, and comedian Obehi Janice, and others.&nbsp;

Mieke Marple talks about her ongoing art project LIVE, LAUGH, LUBE

<a href="https://www.josephkeckler.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Keckler</a> is a singer, writer, and multifaceted creator. Keckler has performed everywhere from dive bars and DIY venues to NPR Tiny Desk, Centre Pompidou, and Lincoln Center. His story and essay collection&nbsp;Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World&nbsp;was published by Turtle Point Press. His new performance piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts and co-commissioned by ArtYard and Coffey Street Studios. <a href="https://artyard.org/events/joseph-keckler-a-good-night-in-the-trauma-garden/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">He will be performing the latest version of it on Saturday, November 22, at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ</a>. This piece weaves together original new songs with a vivid narrative portrait of a wild and unforgettable friend, meditating on what it means to be a classic.

Joseph Keckler on his new performance piece A GOOD NIGHT IN THE TRAUMA GARDEN

Educator, activist, and organizer <a href="https://www.amirthakidambi.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amirtha Kidambi</a> discusses her newly launched podcast, "Outernational,” her new album with her ensemble Elder Ones, New Monuments Live in Vilnius, out on November 14, and her upcoming performances with Elder Ones at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht on Friday, November 7. She also talks about her guest curation event at the festival on November 8, featuring performances by&nbsp;Dirar Kalash;&nbsp;Ghadr غدر (Jad Atoui, Sandy Chamoun, Anthony Sahyoun);&nbsp;One Leg One Eye (ft. Ian Lynch from Lankum);&nbsp;Saint Abdullah &amp; Jason Nazary;&nbsp;Elder&nbsp;Ones; and various collaborative combinations of the above, plus an "Outernational" panel discussion moderated by Kidambi and improv performance with&nbsp;Saul Williams,&nbsp;Dirar Kalash,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Masello Motana&nbsp;&nbsp;

Musician, educator, activist, & organizer Amirtha Kidambi

<a href="https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/tag/Logan+Royce+Beitmen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Logan Royce Beitmen</a> interviews <a href="https://simondtwenzel.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel,</a> who works intersectionally with scent, performance, video, sound, and installation. His work is currently in the group show <a href="https://www.billedkunstnerneioslo.no/en/miriam-hansen-simon-daniel-tegnander-wenzel-una-hamilton-helle-marthe-andersen-viktor-pedersen-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Winter Nights (Vetrnætr)</a> at The Association of Visual Artists in Oslo, Norway, on display until November 2, 2025.

A talk with olfactory artist Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel

Brooklyn-based filmmaker&nbsp;<a href="https://www.petercpavlakis.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Pavlakis</a> discusses his debut feature, APOSTASY BLUES. The film focuses on two cult members who expect to be raptured at an appointed time. However, their leader appears to have raptured without them, taking their donation money with him, so the two members head out to look for him while they deal with their personal issues as they readapt to the secular world.&nbsp; The film will be shown at the <a href="https://sohofilmfest2025.eventive.org/schedule/68bbc1f71157a3960915f025" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Soho International Film Festival </a>in NYC on Friday, October 10, and the <a href="https://www.buffalofilm.org/events/apostasy-blues-w-the-pitch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buffalo International Film Festival</a> on Sunday, October 12.

Filmmaker Peter Pavlakis discusses his debut feature APOSTASY BLUES

Author and journalist Charlie Wells discusses his new book, <a href="https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/what-happened-to-millennials_9781419770814/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation</a>. At the birth of America’s largest living generation, the outlook was strong: unparalleled economic growth, the emerging Internet, the rise of the cell phone, and a geopolitics that had allegedly reached “the end of history” all set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood at the dawn of the new millennium. That adulthood—a work in progress for more than a quarter century—has been disrupted by war, recession, pandemic, and a sharp turn toward cultural and economic polarization. It has also been endlessly critiqued by others as immature, lazy, weak, incomplete, selfish, and supposedly riddled with failure. Now, 25 years after the first millennials began turning 18, Bloomberg News reporter Charlie Wells comes to the generation’s defense with a cultural history of an adulthood disrupted. Drawing on hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with five millennials from across the country, he explores how the biggest events, ideas, and transformations of the century played out in private lives.

Charlie Wells on his new book WHAT HAPPENED TO MILLENNIALS: In Defense of a Generation

Artist Dan Alvarado discusses his solo exhibition PANDORA'S SWIPE, a satirical take on the temptation, overstimulation, and hypersexualization of online dating apps. Opening on September 5 and running through September 22 at Bushwick, Brooklyn's Botanica Grove, Alvarado’s paintings, composed of digitally altered and collaged dating profiles, become a landscape of portraits across the ether. Complimentary bright, colorful emojis accentuate the sexual stimulation and dopamine that dating profiles promote, and comment on how human society interacts and flirts with one another. To create a feeling of overstimulation, the profile images and emojis are screen-printed in vibrant colors before being hand-painted for their final touches, resulting in portraits with a more playful take on profiles users would see on dating apps. Significant events in the first half of this decade, such as the COVID pandemic and the correlation of ramped-up usage of dating apps during this time, inspired Alvarado to explore creating works on this particular topic.​ With dating app companies like Hinge, Tinder, and even Facebook promoting the idea that you can find love, many individuals are persuaded to take the leap and rely on these digital platforms to find their partners or significant others.

Dan Alvarado talks PANDORA'S SWIPE - his solo show satirizing the dating app dystopia 

Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh

<blockquote>Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions.&nbsp;Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. </blockquote><blockquote>With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries, and featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from groundbreaking Black designers like Ozwald Boateng, to Abloh’s mercurial but critical employer and mentor Kanye West, Givhan tells a captivating, great American story of how a young man’s rise amid this cultural moment would upend a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste.</blockquote>

Robin Givhan discusses her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Bob Holmes discusses his ambitious & highly collaborative music project ACROSS THE HORIZON

Musician Bob Holmes of the New York-based trio Suss talks about his unique and ambitious Across the Horizon music series. Bob and Northern Spy Records invited eight innovators from the wide landscape of instrumental music to curate the first volume of Across the Horizon, which was released at regular intervals over the past year, culminating in a double vinyl, which is out now and available to Bandcamp subscribers of the series. Curators and participants in the project include Mark Nelson (Pan American), Luke Schneider, Dave Harrington, Marisa Anderson, Stelth Ulvang, Walt McClements, David Moore, William Tyler, Chelsea Bridge, Melissa Guion (MJ Guider), Julianna Barwick, and many more.

Bob Holmes talks ACROSS THE HORIZON

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