Robert Barry

Alison Knowles, Fluxus Artist Who Spun Art from the Everyday, Dies at 92 Alison Knowles, the Fluxus artist behind 'Make a Salad,' has died at 92.

RIP Alison Knowles…

She made everyday activities both serious & funny in equal measure.

The world would be a different place without her work…

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ooh is that a casio mt65?

The Daniel Craig Bond films became very UKplc around the time of the 2012 Olympics. Also: Paddington and Downton Abbey.

I can't even get my local charity shop to take books *for free*.

Top tip if you work in book PR: don't email a critic on the day they were due to hand in a review of a book you're working on to say, oh by the way, you can't quote anything from the book.

you can't just mute it, then you'd lose all Denis Lavant's weird muttering, which is kind of what makes it tbh.

Would be great to see a version of Jonathan Glazer's excellent Rabbit in Your Headlights video without the horrible whiny music.

guess that means I'm never going to slovakia again.

what

Light Music: Sunn O))), Catherine Christer Hennix & More at Venice Biennale Musica | The Quietus At the 69th annual International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice, performances by the Kamigaku Ensemble, Jasmine Morris and Sunn O))) leave Robert Barry pondering what we mean when we call mu...

I went to the Venice Music Biennale and watched a lot of very loud, noisy music (and also some pretty quiet music, too) that made me feel buoyant and oddly weightless and it got me wondering whether "heavy" is really the right word… thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

‘Death to Spotify’ in Stavanger. 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿

Obviously I'm using a somewhat loose definition of the word "fun" here.

The winner gets a weekly column in a liberal broadsheet of their choice.

A fun parlour game might be called The Left Has a Problem With X. Choose at random either The Left or The Right + any random value for X—eg, anti-Cornish sentiment, small towns, errant marsupials, etc. Then everyone has to find 3 social media posts that prove the Left/Right has "a problem" with it.

i mean, i’m british and i’ve been to 10 of those cities

when you say, the guy from cajun dance party did a great dolphin impression, do you mean oscar-winning composer daniel blumberg??

but how funny would it be if the workers building trump’s ballroom did the demolition bit then just… walked away… and left it like that… and the ballroom never got built and the WH just stayed half-demolished for the rest of his administration?

so are people quitting this grooming gangs enquiry because they think the government’s motives are too racist or not racist enough?

No reply to an unsolicited PR email is a reply, sweetie

Don’t talk to me about synesthetes! I’ve had it up to here with yr bloody synesthetes.

getting to the point where it would be novel and exciting to hear about an artist who uses their instrument in such a way that it *does not* warp time and space.

‘No one makes money from them’: with MTV channels switching off, is the music video under threat? Five MTV channels will close at the end of the year in the UK, leaving just one –which mostly plays reality TV. And with budgets pinched, directors say they are struggling

why everyone quoted in this article sound so thick? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... did the writer get assigned a brief they knew was bullshit and just decided to rip the shit out their own sources?

The last episode of Doctor Who aired in 1989. Everything after that should be considered apocrypha.

button-down shirt + intercontinental ballistic missile

things bullets say

"I attached my EPK"

everyone who had garageband recognised the Umbrella beat!

goes back to Ronnie Reagan, doesn’t it? he said the 9 scariest words in the english language were,” i’m from the government and i’m here to help. ‘ a very effective bit of propaganda.

There’s a £1 idea that could save small music venues. Is Live Nation holding it back? Artists including Coldplay and Katy Perry have got behind a plan to fund small venues from big gigs – but owners say that without Live Nation on board, it could fail

Pretty disappointing attitude from the White Hotel here www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... Their comment seems to rely on the myth that charitable donations are more efficiently redistributed than state funding when the complete opposite is the case (by degrees of magnitude).

The Wire 501 On the cover: claire rousay : The Texas raised composer finds an uneasy balance between melancholy and wonder with her interweavings of soundscapes and spoken word confessions. By Lucy Thraves; Rafae...

I reviewed Mikhail Karikis’s exhibition at Showroom Gallery, Songs For The Storm To Come, for the new issue of The Wire. www.thewire.co.uk/issues/501