Date: August 19, 2019
"The reputation of the once exalted, still unshakably canonical, Impressionist has fallen on difficult days. Never mind the affront to latter-day educated tastes of a painting style so sugary that it imperils your mind's incisors; there's a more burning issue."
preview | full record— Schjedahl, Peter (b. March 20, 1942)
Date: September 2; September 6, 2019
"I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favor of guitarscapes, from twangs in favor of horns, from back beat in favor of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favor of trying to interpret the poetry of others."
preview | full record— Pop, Iggy [James Newell Osterberg, Jr.] (b. April 21, 1947)
Date: September 30, 2019
"In five minutes, the app had sandblasted my cognitive matter with twenty TikToks that had the legibility and logic of a narcoleptic dream."
preview | full record— Tolentino, Jia (b. 1988)
Date: October 2, 2019
"In the ravings of Trump's Ukrainian call, we saw undeniable proof that Infowars has invaded the president's brain."
preview | full record— Manjoo, Farhad (b. August 19, 1978)
Date: December, 2019
"He was never really in the same lane as them. He was always this guy walking in a green pasture. They were on a highway in Los Angeles or Seattle, and he was in a green pasture in his mind."
preview | full record— Williams, Pharrell (b. April 5, 1973)
Date: January 29, 2020
"I would argue that his [Donald Trump's] mind, while a lot of things, including a landfill for the rancid refuse of pure appetite, is not exactly intricate."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: August 13, 2020
"IF ONLY WE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT LURKED IN HIS STRADIVARIUS OF A MIND!"
preview | full record— Petri, Alexandra (b. 1988)
Date: May 28, 2023
"This is an acid bath for human cognition"
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)
Date: May 28, 2023
"It's like we have an internal whiteboard in our minds ... If I'm working on one task, I have all the info I need on that mental whiteboard. Then I switch to email. I have to mentally erase that whiteboard and write all the information I need to do email."
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)
Date: May 28, 2023
"And just like on a real whiteboard, there can be a residue in our minds."
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)