While many of her earlier works explicitly conjure memories of her rural Illinois girlhood, the paintings in her latest show Episodes at Margot Samel are peculiarly untethered to both time and place.

Performance artist Ralston Farina (b. 1946, d. 1985) was a mind reader. I do not mean this metaphorically: he began his career in the 1950s as Steve Raven, a child magician who specialized in extra-sensory perception (ESP). 

This book compiles twenty-five feverish poems that Descloux wrote in French (now translated) during a visit to New York in the winter of 1975 alongside drawings, collages, and photographs composed by Descloux herself, as well as artists she met during her stay, including Patti Smith and Richard Hell.

Daniel Johnston trafficked in truisms. A legend of the lo-fi music scene, he penned songs with titles that read like decrees: “True Love Will Find You In The End” or “Some Things Last a Long Time.” Lost love was a persistent theme.

Tucked into a corner of Joiri Minaya’s Geographic Bodies is a small archival print, inconspicuous and unassuming. Images of two women overlap: in the larger image on the right, the woman dons a printed visor and bears a broad smile, while the one on the left wears her hair wrapped in a scarf, her expression more solemn.