Creative Shares from Antonym
We're always looking for creative shares and inspiration. Please share what you're reading, watching, listening to, and taking in culturally. We'd love to hear from you!
From The Grolier Club exhibit
2/25/25
Our Truth Serum guest Hannah Samendinger recommended the New York Review of Architecture and we've been inhaling it. “Resisting prestigious mediocrity since 2019," the magazine features quick hit and long form takes on NYC landmarks and boondoggles. From the Port Authority Bus Terminal to Little Island, Brooklyn brownstones to Rikers Island, the writing is by turns incisive, witty, heartbreaking, and informative.
A recent exhibition at the Grolier Club, one of North America’s oldest bibliographic societies, was "put together by a bunch of absolute nerds." That's a beautiful compliment for Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books, a collection of the greatest non-existent works in all of literature, from The Songs of the Jabberwock to Sylvia Plath's lost memoir. It was an odd, wistful, and charmingly speculative exhibit you have to see to believe. We hope it gets an encore.
1/25/25
Renee Gladman's My Lesbian Novel delivers an extraordinary meditation on writing and the writerly process. Guided by her ongoing interview with an unidentified narrator, their conversation unfolds as Gladman reflects on her ideals for a lesbian romance novel and the deconstructed, non-linear process that guides her work and ideation. Extraordinary. You'll have never read anything like it.
We'll spare you our treatise on the importance of the high and low in any cultural diet and get straight to the point: not only is Traitors Season 3 a fascinating romp through the human psyche, Alan Cumming is electric, on fire, and absolutely tantalizing in some of the best (and best-dressed) work of his career. The newly released season 3 and the entire franchise are a balm for weary minds and a boon for those who relish reality TV.
The Christine Sun Kim retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art (also traveling to Walker Art Center in Minneapolis) explores sound, language, and the complexities of communication through her mixed-media practice. And, we've never seen anything like it. Over 90 works explore Kim's Deaf lived experiences, examining her life within shared social spaces where sound is taken as a given.
Want to go down an existential wormhole with a knowledgeable and friendly guide? Janna Levin, theoretical cosmologist, black hole expert, and professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, is always at the center of a crowd of thinkers, artists, and scientists. Start your journey by reading her Gossamer profile and listening to her Joy Of Why podcast.
For any Severance fans wondering what that song is from the opening scene of Season 2, it is the propulsive, Ocean’s 11-esque Burnin’ Coal by the legendary jazz pianist Les McCann. The album it’s off of, Much Les, is an underrated classic and worth a listen. McCann’s body of work provided samples for later artists A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, the Notorious B.I.G., and countless others.