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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 4, 2026

Mona Built a Library With No Dewey Decimal and a Shakespeare First Folio

Phrontisterion sits underground beneath Anselm Kiefer's Elektra, designed by Nonda Katsalidis with Mona's librarian Mary Lijnzaad. Shelves light up according to what a reader is chasing, and the Wunderkammer holds a hand-signed Darwin manuscript, an Enigma machine and Bowie's handwritten lyrics to Starman.

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By Emma-Kate Wilson ยท Indesign Live

Phrontisterion, Mona, Hobart
Phrontisterion, Mona, Hobart
Design

  1. Resin Went From Eames Shells to a Material That Shows Its Mistakes

    The Spaces·Sep 4

  2. A Water Tower Painted as a Tomato Can, From Mid-Century Produce Labels

    The Dieline·Sep 3

  3. A Quebec Arts Venue in Red, Gold and Black Supergraphics

    Azure Magazine·Sep 3

  4. The Townhouse Larry Gagosian Once Owned, Recalibrated

    The Townhouse Larry Gagosian Once Owned, Recalibrated

    est living·Sep 2

Arts & Culture

  1. A Gallery Turned Into a Gym, With Classical Heads on the Weight Machines

    Flash Art·Sep 3

  2. Nairy Baghramian Works Without Sketches and Refuses the Plinth

    Sculpture Magazine·Sep 3

  3. Two Hundred and Fifty Works by Seventy-Three Saudi Artists, From the 1960s On

    Two Hundred and Fifty Works by Seventy-Three Saudi Artists, From the 1960s On

    ArtAsiaPacific·Sep 2

  4. A Durham Light Infantry Museum Reopens as a Gallery About Light

    Aesthetica Magazine·Sep 2

Sound
  1. Mastodon's First Record Without Brent Hinds

    Mastodon's First Record Without Brent Hinds

    No Ripcord·Sep 4

  2. Klara Lewis Builds Records Out of Processed Field Recordings

    The Quietus·Sep 3

  3. Yoni Wolf Split His Ninth Album in Two and Released the Optimistic Half Early

    Paste Magazine·Sep 3

  4. How to Tell Whether a Song Was Made by a Machine

    Consequence·Sep 2

Collecting
  1. Fifty Chairs, Pitched at Collectors Who Have Never Bid Before

    Fifty Chairs, Pitched at Collectors Who Have Never Bid Before

    Hypebeast·Sep 4

  2. Bought in 1927, Seized in 1940, Restituted in 2023, Selling in October

    Artnet News·Sep 1

  3. Seventy-Five Years of Snoopy, Read as a Record of Designer Taste

    Design Milk·Sep 2

  4. Maritime Collecting, From Liner Postcards to Salvaged Instruments

    Delcampe·Sep 3

Document

  1. A Yale Student Built a Submarine to Attack the Royal Navy in 1776

    Smithsonian Magazine·Sep 3

  2. Four Hundred Purebred Dogs, Judged Against a Standard Written in 1859

    Four Hundred Purebred Dogs, Judged Against a Standard Written in 1859

    The Paris Review Daily·Sep 3

  3. Kaliningrad Holds Ninety Percent of the World's Amber and Little Else

    Engelsberg Ideas·Sep 2

  4. Jon Ronson on Doing His Best Thinking in the Field

    Longreads·Sep 3

Film

  1. The World Press Photo of the Year Was Shot at ISO 8000 in a Federal Building

    Amateur Photographer·Sep 4

  2. Shintaro Sato Photographs Tokyo Through Flatness, Compression and Light

    IMA ONLINE·Sep 4

  3. Danny Boyle Films the Murdoch Takeover of The Sun

    Danny Boyle Films the Murdoch Takeover of The Sun

    Criterion·Sep 3

  4. Monument Valley, Leone's Cutting, and the Shot Framed Below the Hip

    No Film School·Sep 3

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