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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · 7d

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Linda Rosenkrantz!!!!

A Barrage of Art

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Sep 4

I forgot about how much I love this piece <3 thank you

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Elvia Inc.

Watch me transform into a corporation before your eyes

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Law enforcement needed lamps. Nightshift workers needed lamps. Malls needed lamps. Emergency services needed lamps. Moralists needed the metaphor of lamps.”

@elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp in NYRA no. 46/47.

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A summer in track changes

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New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · Aug 4

@elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp.

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Jul 30

reviving your skeleton of a novel... indefinitely moving apartments... writing fiction and criticism at the same time

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Resuscitate, resuscitate

What and where to eat in Rome

elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Jul 8

I went ahead and wrote this important listicle
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The Pastas and the Weeds

A New Morning in New York City

elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Jun 25

“I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over," Mamdani told the crowd. "As my father told me years ago, when the right wins power, the left writes a great book. Those days are over too."
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The biggest political upset in city history, and other links to start a very different Wednesday.

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Jun 24

Criticism in Crisis!! Part 2

It's not in crisis. Anyway this is about making art and writing criticism at the same time.

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Jun 4

The screenshot

New novel drops next year

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · May 27

Criticism in Crisis!! Part 1

A taxonomy of reviews: Good faith, Bad faith, Takedown

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · May 15

Before the Biennale: A 2015 conversation with Carlo Ratti

Unearthing an interview from the late-great uncube magazine

2 Guards Charged With Murder in Beating Death of Prisoner in New York

elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · May 10

For more on Midstate: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n....

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · May 10

We’re raising funds for my dear friend Bill, who’s just been suddenly paroled from the notoriously awful Midstate prison in upstate NY and is now in a shelter trying to get his life started again. Please give if you can! chuffed.org/project/1312...

Help Bill land on his feet

Our friend William Reddick was granted parole this month, a long-awaited and hard-earned milestone. After a year and a half of re-incarceration, Bill is finally coming home, and we've organized this f...

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · May 8

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Sick me on it

Health Communism, Dying for Sex, What to See & Read

Gothic Woman Theory — Daphne du Maurier and the haunted body

elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Apr 29

Lucky and grateful to be FELLOWED to write about scriptwriting in art

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Apr 22

In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened.

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · Apr 15

For when it's time to lie down and be sick
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Rebecca