We talk about Gabi's upcoming exhibition "Art at Work: Sanitation & Social Practice", opening May 4th at All Street Gallery in New York City.

• All Street Gallery
• "It's Not What the World Needs Right Now" by Andrew Norman Wilson in The Baffler

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We read Lucy Lippard's "The Dematerialization of Art" (1967) and cover the emergence of conceptual art in the 60s in NYC.

• Lucy Lippard, "The Dematerialization of Art" (1967) PDF
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We read Clement Greenberg's "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) and discuss where the avant-garde went, introduce a horseshoe theory to explain the KAWS cereal, and debate whether or not the Marina Abramović Longevity Method is a conceptual project or sell-out.

• PDF: Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939)
• Article: Bret Schneider, "Criticism & Ambivalence" (2016)
• Art (?): Marina Abramović Longevity Method (2024)
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We read Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" (1964) and discuss criticism, cave paintings, Walter de Maria, Adopt-a-Highway, and institutional critique.

• PDF: Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" (1964)
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Gab conceives of a Cosmology of Memes. We review the mumblecore flick Wobble Palace. A listener sends us a grave warning which we dissect in a debate about free speech absolutism.

It’s a spoken word struggle session: the philosophers are rolling in their graves, our bodies hit the floor, the larp’s off, it's all just a game of Downtown Scene Bingo, we arrive seven years late to Adam Curtis. Listen up sheeple, the call is coming from within the Third Thing.

** kat mistakenly says Hegel created phenomenology: it was actually Heidegger (in part).

Kat's reports on the Mars Review of Books Soireé where she meets Crumps and other downtown characters. Gab hosts a spoken Latin and Ancient Greek conference on the UES. Discussion closes in the realm of religion & mysticism.

Kat and Gab descend into mania during an unusually warm New York winter and hit the town. Discussed: Social-Media-Eye-of-Sauron-Theory, the Tense Magazine fundraiser at Beckett’s in the West Village, Gab’s experience with arts patron Mary Kaplan, Dog Race Theory, and ofc, more Downtown Theory. With special guest Oslo.

Galaxy brain with us on “corecore”, the new meta-meme trend on TikTok, grad school updates, downtown art scene updates, and Gab’s index finger/d*ck vibe theory.

Kat's existential crisis at the Met, Gab's murderous thoughts, and trend predictions for the year.