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I don't have words anymore.
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10h
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Thank you @katewagner.wehwalt.net for writing this. I certainly haven't been buying the "a different architect at the firm shepherded the project" line. & it didn't escape me that Thelma Golden thanked him personally from the dais at the Studio Museum reopening.
www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
New David Adjaye-Built Museums Beg the Question: What Happened to #MeToo?
His latest buildings are the Studio Museum, Princeton University Museum of Art, and Musuem of West African Art.
www.artnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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a yellow a-frame signboard warning of wet floors stands sideways against a large, deepset plate glass window with black granite surround, as if it is peeking in like a sicko in that one comic panel, saying yes ha ha ha yes to the similarly a-framed cady noland sculpture mostly cropped out of the left edge of the photo
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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bevel! reverse bevel! bevel frame! mosaic bevel! so many levels to the bevels!!!!!

(sam gilliam 1973, 1969, 2021, 2011, blog soon)
The corner of Sam Gilliam's painting "Last September V" (1973) at Christie's auction house. A bright abstract painting in deep green and bright yellow amidst other colors, with an angled, beveled edge that points toward the viewer. The corner of Sam Gilliam's painting "MLG" (1969) at Christie's. A soft pink abstract painting with liquid-like marks of silvery pink paint, with an angled, beveled edge that points toward the wall. The edge of Sam Gilliam's painting "Lucky" (2021) at the Hirshhorn Museum. A thickly painted and splattered abstract tondo painting, with fluorescent hues covering a white background, with an angled, beveled white frame edge onto which the composition spills. Detail of Sam Gilliam's mosaic artwork "From Model to Rainbow" (2011) in Takoma, Washington, DC. An abstract mosaic tile artwork with a large 3-dimensional circular area jutting out from the primary composition, with an angled beveled edge running around it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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the post-sale coverage here is funny bc like, this is just not true! and the museum has sold off a *lot* of work between 1987 and today, and some of those sales were way more objectionable than this one imo.
The last time the museum deaccessioned, or sold, a work, Liza Phillips said, was in 1987 when her father was director; the piece was one by Georges Braque that had not been collected by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips themselves.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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looking harder at this cady noland barrier from a different angle and suddenly the a-frames made me read it as a text piece

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
An untitled 1998 sculpture by Cady Noland, installed in the sunken garden gallery at Sotheby's in the Marcel Breuer building, formerly the Whitney. A found-object sculpture made of around a dozen white plastic a-frame pieces with a painted white wood plank stuck through their center. The work is pictured from the side, emphasizing the "A" shape of the a-frames.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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totally obnoxious work-related post but we love winning :))))))))
amlibraryassoc.bsky.social American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 4d
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!

A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.

Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
LIBRARIES WIN IN COURT. Federal court issues permanent injunction in Rhode Island V. Trump, stops the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The court ruled that all actions taken by the Administration to dismantle IMLS are nullified. This injunction takes immediate nationwide effect: all grants, in every state and territory. The Administration is stopped from taking these actions again in the future. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States.

www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...
Newly Uncovered Document Reveals An 'Alarming And Disturbing' Trump Threat
The Trump administration is turning the screws on kids who’ve arrived in the United States without adults accompanying them.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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CNN, NYT, AP, and other media orgs literally have interviewed families of people killed in Caribbean boat strikes, including some who say they were just fishermen.

Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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i really can't tell if it's funny or not that they made it feel like a ~branded sale~
Two works for sale at Sotheby's auction house in New York, in the Marcel Breuer-designed former home of the Whitney Museum. Above the works in painted lettering on the wall is the logo of the Phillips Collection, from which the works are being sold. From left to right, an abstract painting by Arthur Dove (Rose and Locust Stump), and a painting by Georgia O'Keefe (Large Dark Red Leaves on White).
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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i finally have enough photos to do a blog post about all the different kinds of bevels in sam gilliam paintings, incredibly productive weekend imo
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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genuinely fascinated by the take that the new Noland show "was a hit", although I don't fundamentally disagree.

but the show got exactly 2 (two) full reviews, one of them on a blog, one of them headlined that the show was "not as bad as you may have heard". that feels like the opposite of a hit!
"The elusive artist Cady Noland has made a shock return: will it impact her reputation? The American artists has recently broken a long silence with major gallery shows in New York - and the reaction hints at her work's continuing relevance." [Below the headline is a photograph of a young Cady Noland on the streets of New York in a phonebooth.] The scale and volume of the new work in her most recent Gagosian exhibition dwarfed those two shows. Its checklist contained 38 entries, and all but two were made this year. The show was a hit. The Art Newspaper understands that many of the works (most priced in groups from around $100,000 to over $2m) were placed with major private collectors and institutions. More surprising, however, was the show’s enthusiastic reception by younger fans, who have known Noland mostly, if not entirely, as a mythic figure. The next generation of collectors “flocked to” the Gagosian show, says Wendy Cromwell, a New York-based art adviser, and it resonated powerfully with young artists. “Controlling her own narrative by recusal from gallery shows, which gave Cady agency as an artist, has immense appeal right now to young artists figuring out how to navigate the marketplace,” Cromwell says. The relevance of Noland’s core themes probably also plays a role in her intergenerational appeal, according to Rob Teeters, the founder of the advisory firm Front Desk Apparatus. In the US, he says, “gun control and violence or the distribution of wealth and power” are all topics “at the forefront of younger generations’ concerns”.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d
Rep. Pat Harrigan: "I have asked Josh Stein, our governor, to consider working with President Trump to allow the National Guard to come into Charlotte ... use the National Guard as a force multiplier and they can a lot of load off the Charlotte PD."
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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it took them until like halfway through Fall to finally update this lol
Screenshot of the New Museum's "Building" webpage. "Reopening in Fall 2025, the New Museum continues construction of our building expansion, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson" Screenshot of the New Museum's "Building" webpage. The reopening date now reads "early 2026", the only change to the website.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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high priority update: I now temporarily have a full lisp bc of how deep this was. an amazing way to start the week.
wareian.com ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 19d
pretty low in the grand scheme of things but i bit my lip to the point of gushing blood on my very first bite of pho tonight. i just wanted to eat my pho :,(
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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does anyone know exactly when (or exactly why) artf*rum removed all the dates from their online-only reviews? it's such a fucking pain to figure it out for reviews from the '00s on, and at one point they all had dates. awful decision tbh (one of many lol), really annoying for archival work.
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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mattshuham.bsky.social
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering establishing a new call center, in part to make it easier for them to track immigrant children with the help of local and state law enforcement.

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ca...
ICE Is Pitching A Plan That Would Track Immigrant Kids
The Trump administration has ramped up pressure on migrant youth for months.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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this article (www.artnews.com/art-news/new...) reminded me of the Basquiat at SAAM that for some reason never got an accession number or put online. credited to the museum and the Schorr Family Collection, which afaik is not modern/contemporary. is it a promised gift? a loan? what does it all mean.
An untitled painting from 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Amid several layers of scribble-like abstraction in muted tones of ochre, orange, pink, deep green, gray, and cream, a figure is visible in the upper right corner with drawing of a bone below the figure and a claw- or crown-like object to its left. A large triangle form dominates the bottom left of the canvas, possib ly a mountain or pyramid form, with white circles applied over it. Wall label for the painting. "Jean-Michel Basquiat, b. 1960 New York, d. 1988 New York. Untitled, 1982. Acrylic and oil paint stick on canvas. Ringed by black lines that vibrate with a spiky intensity, a skeletal figure raises a fist. His body appears as an X-ray, while his left arm floats beside him as a bone. All around, colors dash in and out of view, creating an electric scene of clashing shapes and unruly energy. Jean-Michel Basquiat was a graffiti artist early in his career, and he carried the spontaneity of painting on the streets of New York into his paintings. In Untitled and other works, he explored his own experience as a Black man in the United States, pictured as a complex brew of brilliance and death. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Schorr Family Collection"
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 18d
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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pretty low in the grand scheme of things but i bit my lip to the point of gushing blood on my very first bite of pho tonight. i just wanted to eat my pho :,(
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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this is the first time in a very long time that i booked acela tickets more than a week in advance and holy shit i could not be more grateful to have done it before this happened
airlineflyer.net Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 19d
United starting to post its Trump Flight Cancelations for Friday and the #CursedRoute is taking a 50% hit.

“Your flight is canceled due to FAA-mandated airspace restrictions during the government shutdown.“
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters.

"Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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in case you weren't following her complete meltdown over Zohran, the world's most washed artfluencer Jerry Gogosian is straight up reposting Richard Spencer videos to her IG story
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM