The paperback seen in good company on the new & notable table @ Books Are Magic, BK.

Bea Nettles (b. 1946) Photographs from The Mountain Dream Tarot, 1975, Hand-painted black-and-white photographic prints From the amazing Tarot show at The Morgan!

I interviewed the brilliant artist Uman for T Mag: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/t...

Glorious empty day at Rockaway Beach

Appreciated this thorough piece and the shoutout re: NCF, esp. this line on the “utterly satanic ‘transformation’ of the I. M. Pei dormitories that will make the modernist masterpiece look like a bus terminal.”

Home grown!

Is there any hope that Vanderbilt will not completely gut CCA when it takes over next year? I'm so tired of seeing incredible schools close—but aren't we all.

I had the pleasure to write an essay for this show's forthcoming catalogue. If you're near Corning, NY, go see! whatson.cmog.org/exhibitions-...

"The school’s administration seems to care much more about political posturing than it does about their actual lives." #Florida Gov Ron DeSastrous' right-wing makeover of New College gets a hilariously critical eyeroll from John Oliver. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... via @us.theguardian.com

Thank you @lastweektonight.com from an NC alum. So glad you tapped into this treasure trove of grift. The alumni community definitely needed a cathartic laugh at this point too; along with the 😭 in our 🍻! 😒

We’re back tonight at 11pm on @HBO! Right after the Earth, Wind & Fire documentary, and right before an encore presentation of the Earth, Wind & Fire documentary. In case you need a 40-minute break from enjoying world-renowned musicians. Because whatever “music” is, John is the opposite.

YES! 11pm, too late for me but I'll be watching this first thing tomorrow.

Delish plates via mriga.nyc Proof once again that Sunnyside rocks.

I still I get ai emails from random book marketers telling me that my untapped market is Walmart 😭

Always a relief to return to NYC. I’ll take grit and realness any day over grift and fakers.

Congrats to all the graduates, but especially to those who survived the banality of evil at New College (rip) from 2022-2026.

Class is done and now comes my least favorite part of teaching: GRADING. I wish every class was Pass/Fail.

This will give me nightmares forever.

A Dorothy Miller quote via MoMA / I feel the same: “If I hadn’t known any artists I wouldn’t know a damn thing about art. You simply have to know the people and see them working and let them tell you about their pictures."

Hollis Robbins in the NY’er: We tell the student, “You’re special,” and we tell the faculty, “You’re not special.” This is the tension and the problem that is plaguing higher education and what’s made it so vulnerable to A.I. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

My Current Affairs article on the closing of my dear alma mater @hampshirecollege.bsky.social I wrote about the gorgeous, splendid utopian school in all its quirky, flawed, granola glory. Its demise is a catastrophe for higher education.

Shigeko Kubota’s Jogging Lady (1993). Inspired by The New Yorker's 1991 Mother's Day cover, the sculpture depicts a robot jogging with dumbbells, while screens embedded in her torso display videos of Kubota.

Benny.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

bezos’s bozos

This tiny show is fantastic — and it’s up through May 24! This work (which constituted the foundation of my old dept at TNS) was so prescient, and it offers models of public pedagogy and media activism that are still useful today!

@charlesfinch.bsky.social on desiring an art criticism “with the energy of discovery, rather than the consecration of cliché.” Amen to that.

Thanks, Tania—that was fun.

Today!

As Evergreen does to Hampshire, so Hampshire did to New College. But what will happen when there are no liberal arts schools left?

Closes tomorrow!

Incredible company! Thank you BPL!

You can find more forms of pushback against the current administration in pop culture (see Bruce Springsteen, dances and the secret handshake’s sculptures on the mall) than in the art world. I guess the art world really is the last to change, as Howardina Pindell once told me.

Pure hogwash! And not unexpected from this pub. "[T]he closing of a tiny, unique college is not a sign or a symbol or even a symptom of what is happening in American higher education. The death of a unicorn tells us nothing about horses."

RIP Hampshire.

Closes tomorrow!

This is the message for the left.

There's a lot to say on this, but top of mind: I love it when people make smart work critiquing what needs to be critiqued, as in this brilliant documentary.

The joy & hope of being a member of my community garden. What should I plant this spring? I’m thinking lots of flowers. 🌸 🌱

A few more weeks to see the Vuillard show @ Skarstedt - probably the busiest place in Chelsea now for good reason! Interior with Mother and Child, c. 1899-1900 oil on cardboard

The five boroughs are home to at least 47 varieties of cherry and cherry-esque blossoms, 15 varieties of magnolias and 26 varieties of crabapples, according to Parks Department data. Here's where you can find them: www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/08/s...

“Note that the word mute (from Latin mutus and Greek μύειν) is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing it to be seen hiding.” - Ann Carson, Nox

I brake for Bruce: "l like the word, moth. I like the moth in mothering."

And another!

A new one on vvvide.com!

Organizers say Saturday's No Kings demonstrations made up the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, with protests in over 3,300 cities, towns, villages and hamlets.

Take your kids to Pat Oleszko’s show. One of the best I’ve seen with my mine.

Bobbie Gentry for your Sunday: