Spinning Light: Luca Battaglia’s European Carousels and the Memory of Public Space
In his ongoing series Ticket non remboursable, Luca Battaglia photographs carousels across Europe with 20–30-second long exposures, dissolving their ornate structures into bands of light that evoke memory and public space. Locations noted with the images include Toulouse, Grenoble, Paris, Nice, Marseille, Dijon, Deauville, Honfleur, and Tikkimäki.
Wonder, Memory, and Care Intertwine at Joy Machines The Peace of Wild Things
Joy Machine stages The Peace of Wild Things, a duo exhibition of Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon, on view August 28 to October 17, 2026. The show links Browns abstraction with Kwons surreal domestic scenes, including Kwons 2026 works such as Our Favorite Path and What We Hold Dear.
What Mastery Costs Now: Training, Automation, and the Pull of the Physical
Reports spotlight a deference-heavy model in classical music teaching, entry-level writing work lost to automation, a potential Boston Symphony strike, a renewed appetite for CD players, country’s edge on the Billboard charts, and the LAPD probing a Nicolas Cage film that went missing at Netflix.