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Katarina Burin
September 23, 2025
When she was a child, Katarina Burin escaped communist Czechoslovakia with her family on the pretense of going on vacation. This transformational moment was foundational in a practice that engages the intersections of architecture, sculpture, drawing, research, and memory. Her process involves delving deep into discrete bodies of work, translating ideas into elegant, slightly uncanny, forms. One of her earlier endeavors was a creative research project about the underrepresented Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár—a woman who, despite limited opportunities, managed to create her own body of work in community with other architects and designers in the interwar period. Burin’s most recent works, collectively called “For the Benefit of Tourism,” are a meditation on tourist propaganda made for and consumed by residents of Eastern Bloc countries. Like all of her work, these pieces explore the connections between history, communication, politics, fact, fiction, and form. We discuss all of this as well as anti-monuments, communism, public and private space, and all the different places Burin has lived. Fittingly, her playlist is an upbeat, eclectic, thoroughly international selection of songs that is perfect for working in the studio! Burin’s work truly rewards extended looking and thinking—find it at www.katarinaburin.studio
Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
- I Want You To Know Me, White Light, 2021
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La bataille de neige, Domenique Dumont, 2015
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John Says, Leslie Winer, 2012
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I Opened A Bar, Sophie Hunger, 2018
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One warm spark, Colleen, 2017
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Summer On A Solitary Beach, Franco Battiato, 1981
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Parola, Anna Caragnano &Donato Dozzy, 2015
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Tamo Daleko, Branko Mataja
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Bebé Durmiendo Cumbia, Elijah Minnelli, 2019
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Bird, Kelly Lee Owens, 2017
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2nd Thought, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, 1980
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Damn That Valley, U.S. Girls, 2015
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What's Fruit? - Candie Hank Version, Schlammpeitziger & Candie Hank, 2014
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Poplar, K. Yoshimatsu, 2024
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Transitions, Faizal Mostrixx, 2022
- Karaköy, Brazilian Girls, 2018
- Love's Coming on Strong, Hot Chocolate, 1975
- The Sound Of This Place - Ypsigrock Festival 2021; Camilla Sparksss, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Eva Geist; 2021
Working in museum, gallery, public space, and the space of existing and imagined architecture, Katarina Burin often reconsiders narratives both historical and personal. Using archival material and invented forms, true stories, and imperfect memories—Burin blends fact and fiction sometimes in equal measure—to produce installations, images and objects that are at times functional, at times fantastical, occasionally commemorative, and often mysterious, playing with levels of subtlety and immersiveness.
Katarina Burin received her BFA from University of Georgia and MFA from Yale University and is currently associate senior lecturer at Harvard University’s department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. She was awarded a Guggenheim in 2025.
September 9, 2025
Music for a late summer/early fall afternoon…
- Zebra, Oneohtrix Point Never, 2013
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Diablo, Mt. Mountain, 2016
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Darling Effect, Insides, 1993
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Face of the Sun, Shana Cleveland, 2019
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Sleep Away Your Troubles, The Softies, 2000
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Honeycomb, Kadhja Bonet, 2015
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Doomsday, MF DOOM, Pebbles The Invisible Girl, 1999
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MEU, Matty, 2023
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Four Hills, DJ Day, 2005
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Surf's Up - Remastered 2009, The Beach Boys, 1971
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Catalina, Allah-Las, 2012
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Absolute Zero, Hoover, 2002
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Mellanrum, Dina Ögon, 2021
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Occasional Magic, Yppah, 2015
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Peng! 33 - 2018 Remaster, Stereolab, 1992
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The Place Upstream, Skinshape, 2014
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Cherokee, Cat Power, 2012
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Mystic, Evangeline, 2023
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Hunter, Björk, 1997
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Make a Sentence, Rachael Dadd, 2014
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It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, The Country Gentlemen, 1968
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Shambala, Beastie Boys, 1994
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Assossamagh, Imarhan, 2016
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Queens Highway, Menahan Street Band, 2021
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T.I.B.W.F., The Budos Band, 2005
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What Has Happened, Tonstartssbandht, 2021
- Undercurrent, Windy & Carl, 1998
August 26, 2025
For an afternoon of sacred music from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, I present four complete masses for your edification:
0:00:00 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, c. 1562; Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella, recorded 2016
0:31:10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Missa (solemnis) in C minor, K.139 “Waisenhausmesse,” 1768; Choir of King's College, recorded 1997
1:12:00 The Electric Prunes, Mass in F Minor, 1968
1:39:00 Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe, 1990; Elora Festival Singers, Elora Festival Orchestra, Noel Edison, recorded 2004
Ted Mineo
August 12, 2025
Much like his work, artist Ted Mineo’s mixtape ranges from serious to weird, funny to terrifying, funky to sentimental. Mineo’s paintings are painfully realistic depictions of fantastic objects and spaces. His latest work, shown most recently at Harkawik in New York, combines elements of hospital operating theaters, dentists’ chairs, space ship interiors, and optical illusions. These uncanny pictures are painted intuitively without reference to observation—they are about summoning something into existence rather than recording external reality. Flesh nestles up inside metal armatures, shadows misbehave, rigid architectures bend and flex.
Mineo’s work extends beyond painting to drawings, photo collages, and even music. We discuss his love of collaboration and the projects he’s worked on with with the electronic band Matmos, the writer Sheila Heti, and his own experimental band Voider.
Mineo brings his irreverent and irrational logic to everything he does. This conversation gets at the things that make his biomechanical subjects tick.
- Silence; Charlie Haden with Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Sharon Freeman, Mick Goodrick, Jack Jeffers, Michael Mantler, Paul Motian, Jim Pepper, Dewey Redman; 1983
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The Electrician, The Walker Brothers, 1978
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Shipbuilding, Robert Wyatt, 1999
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Frame By Frame, King Crimson, 1981
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Zero Degree Machine, Horse Lords, 2022
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Super Spirit, George Clinton with Junie Morrison, 1995
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Letter to 0, Voider, 2017
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Ghosts, Japan, 1981
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Changes Reprise, Rafael Toral, 2024
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Spinning Away, Brian Eno & John Cale, 1990
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You've Got a Friend - Live, Donny Hathaway, 1972
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Berceuse, Myriam Gendron feat. Zoh Amba, 2024
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Late Night Shopping, David Sylvian, 2003
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The River, Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, 1998
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That's Life, James Brown, 1969
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Horizontal Hold, This Heat, 1977
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Shutout, The Walker Brothers, 1978
- (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Dionne Warwick, 1967
Ted Mineo (b. 1981, New Orleans, Louisiana) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He earned his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2025, he presented new work in Objects, Intuitions, Concepts at Harkawik in Tribeca and created the album cover for Matmos’s Metallic Life Review. Since 2010, Mineo has taught painting, drawing, and design in New York (and sometimes Boston and Philadelphia). He primarily works as a painter and draftsman with occasional forays into photography, digital collage and music.