Tension (Extended Mix)
Broadcast #21: Salman Toor! Scott Burton in NYRB! & May 2025's Angel-of-the-Month!
Angelic Transmissions #21 broadcasts tomorrow, Monday May 5th, 12-2pm EST, via East Village Radio! For the first hour co-host Leigha Mason and I will catch up on everything we’ve been seeing and reading lately, from backstage at the Charli XCX concert in Brooklyn to Alice Coletrane’s public access television show from the 1980s to the medieval memoir The Book of Margery Kempe—and more, if you can believe it. At 1pm we’ll be joined by painter Salman Toor to discuss “Wish Maker” his two venue show that just opened at Luhring Augustine (at their Chelsea and TriBeCa locations).
If you’ve missed any of the recent episodes you can catch up on the East Village Radio archive page:
#020: Sam McKinniss / Natasha Stagg (04.21.2025)
#019: fierce pussy aka Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka (04.06.2025)
#017: Cynthia Daignault (03.10.2025)
#016: Charles Atlas (02.24.2025)
#015: Jace Clayton / Ian Minamura (02.10.2025)
#014: Joey Arias (01.27.2025)
#013: Chris Martin / Johanna Fateman (01.13.2025)
My essay “Art to Sit On” about the writer, performance artist, and sculptor Scott Burton is in the current “art issue” of the New York Review of Books. Here’s a little bit of it:
What is striking about Burton is that his fanatically conceptualized and impeccably rendered works were intended not to overawe but to pleasurably dissolve into ordinary life with subtlety and grace. They aimed to make people’s lives, even momentarily, more pleasant and humane. Burton once put it this way:
Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is.
And now, without further ado, I’m pleased to announce May 2025’s Angel-of-the-Month:
