One of my favorite artists was on the walls at the Lenbachhaus in Munich— and I had no idea she would be there. Shifting the Silence, built around Etel Adnan's final book, is an exhibition about the difficulty of saying what a work of art is. It left me thinking about language and its limits, about what images do that sentences cannot, and about an artist who, knowing she was dying, chose to write about the beauty of the world.

Growing up without role models can make it difficult to dream. Citlali Fabián's response was to create them — through collaboration, through portraiture, through embroidery stitched into photographs by her grandmother's hands. Named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026, she is exactly the kind of artist this recognition was made for.

Tame Impala's Deadbeat Tour in Munich, 2026. On synesthesia, Kevin Parker, the guitar riff that started it all, and a concert designed to show you what music is supposed to look like — not just sound like.

It's like the horizon, she says, always just within reach, always eluding us. In New York, her surrealist sculptures now rise from the street at monumental scale, asking strangers to stop, look up, and perhaps speak to each other. For Charlotte Colbert, that is not a small act. It is the whole point.

Berlin composer and producer Alejandro Mosso returns for a follow-up conversation — on art as biological necessity, the tension between control and surrender in the studio, two decades of sound, and why live electronic music matters more than ever.

Portland-based producer FENRA has released his sophomore EP, CHICAGO, alongside its mesmerizing focus track "CHICAGO PM," via Base Layer Records.