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Carolina A. Miranda

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"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others. https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 14d

For Alta Journal, I write about two artists who shaped how we see Yosemite and the history of Japanese American incarceration: painter Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams. 🖼️ The two ran in important circles of Bay Area artists; they were also friends.

www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...

WWII Split These Yosemite Artists—and Reunited Them

Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams met as artists drawn to the same peaks—but their views of the West soon diverged.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 15m

PS The Caruso organization refused to tell me where the water for their fountains comes from.

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 17m

"It’s a stunning vision of our inequitable, climate-challenged future: Wander around the area today and you’ll find a neighborhood reduced to ashes as Lululemon still stands."

I spent the summer hanging out at Rick Caruso's malls as he allegedly mulls a gubernatorial run:
nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

A color photograph shows a fountain with bronze female figure atop a pedastal before anodyne chain stores like Blue Mercury and Planet Beauty.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 12h

He’s a star on Tiktok

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 12h

If ICE lays a finger on Portland Frog we ride at dawn.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ASw7nT/

#frog

TikTok video by Glass Bottom Niche

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 19h

The stunning lack of qualifications he has for this job....

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 19h

Nooooo!

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: I wrote about Dallas City Hall. Designed by I.M. Pei, it's an incredible feat of architecture that was meant to embody progressivism and a new start after the JFK assassination. At the end of the month, city leaders could vote to tear it down: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

One of Texas' architectural masterpieces could soon face demolition

The building was designed by foundational architect I.M. Pei.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

“If you call yourselves the Philadelphia Art Museum then maybe your employee union won’t recognize you.”

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

Curious to know how much the museum paid consultants for this “rebrand.”

whyy.org/articles/phi...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art changes its name and its brand

The PMA will now be the more colloquial Philadelphia Art Museum, reflecting an institute embracing its host city.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

In this week's Art Insider for @kcrw.com I write about how Los Angeles is a punk zine but the Hammer's biennial feels more like a well-mannered faculty cocktail.
email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...

A black and white photograph by Pat O'Neill shows a car that has crashed into an embankment with a palm tree.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 No Notes

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

a woman wearing glasses says absolutely the worst case s 'kenario

ALT: a woman wearing glasses says absolutely the worst case s 'kenario

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing and made even better if you read it to yourself in the voice of Kathryn Hahn's character from "The Studio."

Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com · 2d

I've been an exec in corporate TV for 30+ years. This is a harsh, but accurate take on the challenges facing Bari Weiss by @lopatto.bsky.social.

Leading a large team, creatives, and navigating the corpo world without years of experience is exceedingly difficult.

www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

“Tonally, it’s like a Yelp review of Dimes Square types, the rant edited to read semi-smooth.”
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

The Only Thing More Vapid Than the Art World Is This Novel About It

Zoe Dubno’s Happiness & Love sears—but also epitomizes—the contradictions of the creative class.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow night! I'll be leading a convo with Chris Kraus re. her new novel, "The Four Spent the Day Together," at 2220 Arts + Archives! It's free!
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Book Launch: Chris Kraus with Carolina A. Miranda Tickets | Free | 7 Oct @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE

The Poetic Research Bureau and Skylight Books presents the book launch of a new novel by Chris Kraus, *The Four Spent the Day Together*. Following the readin...

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 3d

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care!
This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Jan 15

Ferenc Berko, Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, 1946

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

i should

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to the Luismi/Taylor showdown lolol

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Sending this to my pocho husband.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

4 months.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Latino Tok is going crazy with this lol

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Have been entertaining myself with all the critiques of Taylor Swift’s new album on TikTok, but my fave thread is the one about how one of her songs seems as if it was drawn from the tweener Luis Miguel catalog.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8A6h2gM/

*Inserten meme de ¿coincidencia? NO LO CREO* 😱 #taylorswift #TSTheLifeOfAShowgirl #luismiguel

TikTok video by SensaCine Latam

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

The Peruvian version is, “I need to digest the picarones.”

Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 3d

Can we start the Civil War tomorrow instead of today. I just ate a mountain of Peruvian food and can barely move.

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