1990s Nostalgia Dominates Arts and Music Coverage

Jesse Lepkoff’s Ensemble Amphion Baroque will return to the Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Oct. 25, with Lepkoff praising the gallery’s stone‑walled acoustics for French and German Baroque chamber music. The fourth annual When We Were Young Festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds sold out on day one as tens of thousands attended more than 50 bands and immersive nostalgia activations, with headliners including Blink‑182, Weezer, Avril Lavigne and a full‑album Panic! at the Disco reunion. Conversations at Art Basel Paris previewed Tate Britain’s forthcoming exhibition “The 90s,” guest curated by Edward Enninful for October 2026, and highlighted renewed attention to 1990s artists while debating whether the decade still functions as a coherent cultural unit. Southern Arizona is forecast to start the week in the mid‑to‑upper 80s with a brief return to the low 90s and an above‑average stretch midweek, though forecasters warned that Invest E‑91 off southern Mexico has a 50% chance of developing and could alter the outlook. A music critic argued that contemporary trends toward revivalism, accessibility and production risk impoverishing traditional musical practices, drawing on Morton Feldman, Derek Bailey and David Hendy.