This is Geistlist. I am Jacob. You met me at a party or you’re my grandma and I violated CANSPAM to add you to this list.

I had a whole intro mind-drafted about art getting offensive again, but I’m out of time and I need to prep for the below.

Instead, I will talk about it live on the radio, and write it into a coherent theory later.

Which means that both: you may get two of these in the span of a calendar month, which I normally try to avoid; and that I am now mostly using an email to tease a forthcoming email, which I also abhor.

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¶. Tonight 7–8pm: I am on the radio

8 Ball Radio (click the little ▶ button at the top left), the internet, free

My pal Alex hosts a fortnightly radio show called Ephemera about going to things, and tonight I am guest host. This is where I will deliver my evolving thoughts on offensive art.

¶. May 20, 8–11pm: the first falafel Western

CC Jasper, Lower East Side, NYC, free

Jaafar Alnabi makes 35mm short films about coybows out of place, and sometimes DJs Iraqi music at dive bars. In two Wednesdays, come see him do both.

¶. May 17, 12pm; May 20, 8pm; May 27, 4pm; June 4, 5pm; June 12, 2pm; June 20, 4pm; June 27, 4pm; June 28, 12pm; July 8, 2pm; July 16, 5pm; July 24, 12pm; August 1, 4pm; August 8, 4pm; August 12, 5pm; August 20, 7:30pm; August 22, 4pm; and August 23, 12pm: a leather Birkin bag of human skin

The Whitney, Meatpacking, NYC, $30 but you can probably get in free somehow or reply to arrange a time to use my industry guest pass

I will be discussing this and other pieces on the radio today from 7–8pm Eastern (see above).

∞. You can see my silhouette talking to the woman who was on the jumbotron at that Coldplay concert

MoMA R&D Salon, Midtown, NYC

She was a great surprise presenter on a curious topic, and while I find it funny (ridiculous silly, not ridiculous ridicule) I do not wish to pile on. It was really nice to meet her! Her publicist asked me for every photo I took. I now realize it may be so she can find me if I ever post one. But maybe she just wanted a good photo of them at MoMA.