Amazing show on the work of New Deal era illustrator / graphic designer Lester Beall at the Poster House gallery in Manhattan. Closes this weekend!

Internet Archive is constantly saving my life @archive.org

Today I learned that Siegfried Giedion was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin!

Baking bread again!

Woody Guthrie wrote a song after FDR's death with a refrain that works for Jimmy Carter as well:
"This world was lucky to see him born" www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Dear_...

In the 1990's, Kodak stopped making the materials required to make dye-transfer prints. Storied photographer William Eggleston bought up much of the last reserves to create the stunning color images making up The Last Dyes.
www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

Submitted my first chapter today - A microhistory of the Cincinnati waterworks system, with a focus on a collection of water treatment facilities in the city’s California district. 😅

The (sometimes) quiet history of activism through building codes. Ann Lui in @harvardgsd.bsky.social Design Mag. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/bui...

NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.

We're pleased to announce that @cetracey.bsky.social has been chosen as the recipient of the inaugural On the Brinck | Places Prize. Her project will focus on the Sanctuary Movement, and the entangled histories of immigration, colonization, and religion in the American Southwest.

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Architectural photographer Iwan Baan is insanely prolific. His most recent books amount to 1600 pages of material and thousands of images. I read them all to better understand the paparazzo of the Pritzker set.

Buckle your seatbelts, 'cuz this involves helicopters.

nyra.nyc/articles/baa...

“An article you say? The university must have paid you big bucks for this one I bet?”

The Society of American Archivists is seeking volunteers for an Archival Labor Task Force. Interested in shaping a worker-centered future of the field? Info here:

www2.archivists.org/governance/h...

Sigh … It happened again (missed call from Denise Scott Brown)

Ban cars, except this one

Nutcracker season! @lincolncenter.bsky.social