Kites of Fukuroi and Distant View of Akiba in Totomi Province, from the series One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (1859) by Utagawa Hiroshige II.
• Coming soon from Strange Attractor: International Freak: Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt by M. Syd Rosen.
• At the Daily Heller: the Brooklyn Botanical Garden looks back at the psychedelic Sixties with Flower Power.
• At the BFI: Sophia Satchell-Baeza selects 10 great queer American underground features of the 1970s.
• At Colossal: “Surreal Figures Step from Leonora Carrington’s Paintings into Shape of Dreams”.
• At Unquiet Things: The Surreal Paperback Visions of Richard Powers.
• The Reinvention of the Guitar in 13 Albums by Simon Reynolds.
• At Public Domain Review: The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929).
• Mix of the week: DreamScenes – June 2026 at Ambientblog.
• New music: Cloud Machines by Berndt / Schmidt.
• Kites (1967) by Simon Dupree And The Big Sound | Kites I (1999) by Brian Eno | Nuclear Kites (2023) by Hawksmoor