THE UNEXPECTED UNION — Issue 98 ✻ March 12 2023 — OF UNEXPECTED THINGS
Doing the Time ⏰
This week, Molly Butterfoss's newest entry into the What is the Best series tackles transgressions against the law.
x Varyer Team
What is the Best Crime?
We all love crime—there are near-endless shows, books, movies, and music about the allure of the illegal. But Molly Butterfoss is here to settle it: what's the best crime of them all?
Chicago’s Come Home Initiative is a design competition that aims to reverse decades of disinvestment and depopulation in Chicago’s South and West Sides ≻ Applications for the artist-in-residence opportunity at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative are due April 1 ≻ Go see a beautiful exhibition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ linework and vision in person at Cooper Hewitt thru May ≻ If you can’t make it to NYC, grab Visualizing Black America in our shop ≻ A standout list of new art books to put on your radar ≻ The story of sweet 83-year old Delia and the sweaters she made for “The Banshees of Inisherin” ≻ Charles Dickens’ notes and how they informed his writing process ≻ The stimulation theory of color drives this generator for achieving color moods ≻ Felt might be a good product for collaborating on maps ≻ Detail might be a good product for recording and editing video content ≻ BrXnd Conference NYC just released the lineup for their inaugural event on the role of AI in marketing ≻ You couldn’t pay me to move to these 9 US cities that would literally pay me ≻ The careful coalescence of focus and flow, and a reminder that the game is long ≻ This Spring’s most exciting museum shows.
💕 Song of the Day of the Week 💕
Kelly McHugh brings us a forlorn song on love, fear, and longing.
If you're in the midst of spring cleaning and house-rearranging, we've got what you need to put in, on, and around your home to celebrate the seasonal change.
Check out our Home Collection of goods in the Varyer Shop.
