NEWS UPDATE: 22ND FEBRUARY 2026
Thanks to Rory, Dario, Richard, John, Alex, Samantha, Bernd, Iain, Rupert, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.
Brian Eno's work will be celebrated in Parma, Italy, this year. Two projects are planned, running from 30th April to 2nd August: My Light Years (an art career retrospective) at the Crociera dell'Ospedale Vecchio, and SEED at Giardini di San Paolo. SEED is a collaboration between Brian Eno and Ece Temelkuran, and will take the form of Installation for Giardini di San Paolo, a site-specific audio piece. A recording from the installation will be pressed onto a one-off vinyl record which will be added to the Casa del Suono's collection.
- Press conference – this is mostly in Italian, but the link should take you directly to Brian's bit at 11:24; he appears to have avoided turning the heating on in his studio by Putting On Another Layer
- ParmaWelcome press release: Italian / shorter English
- Comune di Parma information from the press conference
- Wired Italia article
Eno STREAMO
Five iterations of Gary Hustwit's Eno film will be streamed at different times over 22nd-25th February.
BLOCK HEAD
EnoWeb's holiday from updates meant we failed to mention Brian's been-and-gone exhibition at Paul Stolper gallery, which was somewhat remiss even by our woefully low standards. Blocks consisted of stencil-painted birchwood panels, created in a similar fashion to the limited edition version of What Art Does.
- Blocks at Paul Stolper
- Post on Brian Eno Facebook page
- Artnet article
- Organ article
- ART News article
- A #43secondfilm, Brian Eno's Blocks exhibition
Vinyl Countdown
Rough Trade has released a 50th Anniversary edition of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts on mint-green vinyl. Meanwhile for Record Store Day on 18th April, Small Craft On A Milk Sea will be reissued on as a double 140g Black Bio Vinyl album, including the bonus tracks from the original box set/singles plus live Seven Seas Sessions. Record Store Day's track listing refers to one bonus track as "Abandoned Shops" when the original title was rather more on-theme "Abandoned Ship". Possibly just a typo. Other Eno-adjacent RSD releases include David Bowie's Excerpts from Outside and Hallo Spaceboy.
SLOW DANCING
2nd March will see the release of a new collaboration between Brian and Bette A.: Slow Stories: A Collaboration of Storytelling, Music, and Art, exclusively released by Unnamed Press. A limited edition of 444 copies, this collaboration compiles Bette A.'s new book Slow Stories, a vinyl LP of Bette reading two of her stories backed by Brian's music, plus a painting by the duo on canvas board. The artists’s proceeds will go to their chosen charities, The Heroines! Movement and EarthPercent. Bette A.'s book will also be published separately.
- Unnamed Press
- Booked on Rock's Eric Senich talks to Bette A. about her art and working with Brian
RESIST IS AN ANAGRAM OF SISTER
Brian will be one of the rabble-rousers at the DiEM25 event Resistance Is Existence: The Fight For Our Future on 24th March. Apparently "we will bring together the voices that the establishment keeps trying to silence". EnoWeb hadn't noticed any apparent silencing of voices from those on the list of attendees, but we expect that's simply what "the establishment" [citation needed] want us to think. Or more likely an example of AI-written hype: later on the page uses the structure {thing} is not {A} — it is {B}, which AIs just love. But what benefit do AIs gain from pushing the narrative that there is an ill-defined "establishment" dedicated to sticking a gobstopper in the works? One argument is that they simply regurgitate the text, videos, images, and other data upon which they have been trained, so they reflect common opinion back to us one word at a time. But just suppose that isn't the case... What then?
Brian is one of the signatories on a letter calling for higher taxes on the super-rich. In November he appeared on Sky News, and on 22nd January he appeared on the BBC programme Politics Live to discuss the idea.
Palestine: The full Together 4 Palestine concert is available to stream. Brian donated an artwork called "Seeing Through to Sky" to an auction in aid of Health Workers 4 Palestine. He also supported a campaign to save the Aida Youth Centre's football pitch used by young players, being famous for his love of the game as evidenced by his involvement with the 1990s James song "Goal Goal Goal". Fianlly, he contributed to Love is Resistance: 77 Tear-Out Posters for Palestine.
- Together 4 Palestine
- Article by Brian about T4P
- Another article by Brian (he is a Contributing Editor for The Nerve)
- Feature on the song "Lullaby" which Brian hoped might get to be the UK Christmas Number 1 – Guardian article – music video
- Catalogue (page 16); HW4P
- Save Aida's Pitch Challenge video and donation page and BBC News background article
- Love is Resistance
Brian has joined the Together Alliance, which opposes the politics and activities of the far right.
- Together Alliance (not to be confused with Together 4 Palestine)
GONE NATIVE
Shortly before it hit financial trouble, Native Instruments released Absynth 6, a new version of its semi-modular synthesizer. Eno was among the artists who provided a few presets for it.
UTOPIARY
Oxford Ministry for the Future will present A History of Utopia with Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Eno on 23rd November. An assemblage of photographs on the page shows Robinson distracted by Peter Chilvers' look of distraction as he suspects he left the gas on at home, while Brian is distracted by the same photo of Robinson and realises too late that they are stuck in a recursive loop. Some Utopia, huh?
- A History of Utopia
- The 2025 Oxford Ministry for the future event with Eno, Robinson, and others
EDGE OF DISASTER
There is an old proverb: "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas". Less widely observed is the impact upon those who lie down with those who lie down with dogs. Over the years, EnoWeb has linked to Eno-related videos and articles on EDGE.org, which saw itself as a kind of salon: in the words of its editor, publisher, and president John Brockman, "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." The EDGE site lists hundreds of people as contributors to its mission.
In 2012 Brockman told John Naughton in The Observer Review: "Edge is a conversation – it's not a magazine written for the public. The audience for the contributors to Edge is the other contributors. The readers have the opportunity to look over the shoulders of some extraordinarily gifted individuals as they go back and forth in the battle of ideas." So far, so salony, but EDGE needed donors and one of them was Jeffrey Epstein. As has been seen from "Epstein Files" PDFs relating to prominent people in the UK, there was always a quid pro quo with a man who (ignoring the obvious) thrived on privileged information and networking opportunities. Brockman was in regular contact with Epstein, regularly CC'ing him alongside other EDGE contacts in emails trumpeting EDGE's latest triumphs, and appears to have developed a somewhat proprietorial attitude to his EDGE cohort.
In early November 2011 Brian Eno was staying in the USA; this may well have been the same trip as his 29th October appearance at Moogfest, and he had appeared on The Colbert Report broadcast on 10th November. He sent a private email to John Brockman explaining that he might extend his stay in New York for a couple of days which could enable them to meet up. Brockman apparently thought nothing of forwarding this email on 14th November to Epstein and proposing a meeting and dinner for later in the week, Epstein then being out of the city. Jeffrey agreed and the wheels were set in motion. EnoWeb would have imagined they would have gone to Burger King or a Wendy's, but Epstein wrote of trying a new chef which we hope was not some ghastly euphemism. This would not have been an intimate dinner à trois, as the smoke-signals were sent up for other diners. By early evening on 14th, any dinner on Thursday was off – Eno and Brockman suddenly being unavailable. Two versions of this email appear to have been sent, the second referring to Epstein's current absence from NY. Other prospective guests were informed of the cancellation. And that, m'lud, is how my client was surprised to find his name appearing in the "Epstein Files".
Brockman's sense of ownership over his EDGE buddies continued during EDGE's active lifetime. On 18th March 2018 the Great Man put forward a Big Idea to his mate Jeffrey. Brockman's plan was that "Your friend in the Middle East [who] is coming to the US tomorrow ... may be able do a lot more for his people (while spending less) by acquiring Brockman, Inc. and gain immediate access to the world's great scientific minds, while doing so in a deep way where, in effect, the Sovereign Fund would be their agent. ... An interesting ancillary benefit: The net worth of the 40 guests at my 2014 "billionaires dinner" was equal to combined wealth of 60% of all Americans". At the end of his email Brockman gave a huge list of the worthies whom he was seemingly willing to sell off or sell out: Eno, Dawkins, Chomsky, Anderson, Reece, Sutherland, Suskind and MANY, MANY MORE! PRICES SLASHED AS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE MUST GO IN BROCKMAN'S BIGGEST EVER SALE!!!! As far as EnoWeb is aware, the deal did not go ahead and Brian Eno remains British Territory rather than annexed to a petrostate. A narrow escape all the same.
EVERYTHING ELSE WE DIDN'T GET AROUND TO
- David Byrne's single "T shirt", co-written with Brian
- Institute of David Graeber: Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno on poetic technologies
- Wired Japan has the text of a conversation between Brian Eno and Daisuke Ishii, Direct of the Sony Group Creative Center
- Cool Hunting interviews Brian and Beatie Wolfe
- Portsmouth Sinfonia with Brian
- Brian and Pete Townshend talk about Sir David Attenborough
- Brief clips of Eno's session for Peter Doig's Sound Service at the Serpentine Gallery, courtesy of Paul Stolper
- Harry Borden recalls a photoshoot with Brian
- Roger Eno talks about his new album Without Wind / Without Air and plays "Spell" and "Alembic Distillation"
- An issue of Digging with Laurie Anderson and Flo
- Adam Buxton spoke to Tape Notes about sending his music to Brian
- Audio recording of the Ships concert on 30th October 2023 (Early Show)
- Vinny Murphy's 1999 film Accelerator, which has some music by Brian
- FairfaxCityMusic interviewed Peter Chilvers
- Filmmaker interviewed Michael Brook
- It's Nice That feature on Orfeo Tagiuri's videos for Eno-Wolfe songs
- 2000 AD Prog 2448 featured a story where "the lawman is embroiled in the hunt for the mythical Wild Man of Brian Eno"
- 1984 interview with Robert Fripp
- Paul Stolper 2025 Christmas Card designed by Brian
- Les B.O. de Brian Eno – not as off-putting as its title might suggest, this is a compilation of movie scenes with Eno's soundtracks
- In A Garden – commentary and music from Eno's 2021 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion soundtrack
- Tribune: Robert Wyatt, Red Eccentric by David Hobbs