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Mamdani uses Signal for government business "incompatible with local record-keeping & freedom of information laws" www.politico.com/new... When I was in local govt. Open Meeting Law rule was drilled into us: NOT EVEN 1 private e-mail w 1 other member of board on official matters

This is a major contribution to the history of New York City #publicart and #architecture. The photographs themselves are amazing. #Urbanism+ #academicsky history.nycourts.gov/60-centre-st...

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

@NYCHealthSystem #ArtsinMedicine program, dedicated to using art for purposes of healing, is celebrating this month (and beyond) work by Black artists in its amazing collection. This new #mural by @mickalenethomas is one of many of them. 👏 www.rxart.org/projects/mic...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund awards $8.5 million in grants to 33 historically Black churches through its 4th annual Preserving Black Churches program grant round. A total of #13.5m this year

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

How cool is this? Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century" He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective Watch it here:

Mayor Mamdani just shared this on Instagram after his (unannounced) meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office. Read more here: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

While housing's the main topic, Trump and Mamdani are also likely to talk immigration today, per source. Mamdani will be joined by Morris Katz, his top political adviser, his chief of staff, Elle Bisgaard-Church, and communications director, Anna Bahr. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

New: In their meeting today, Mamdani and Trump are set to discuss ways NYC can create more "big" housing developments. This comes after we reported weeks ago that Trump grew especially animated during their first meet when Mamdani brought up ULURP reform. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Join the Archive Project’s all-star group of experts (Anthony C. Wood, Laurie Beckelman, Michael Hiller, Frampton Tolbert, Emily Kahn, Adrian Untermyer) on March 12 as we consider the intellectual underpinnings of the hardship application. Register below: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

American adults with a four-year college degree Hindus 70% Episcopalians 67% Jews 65% Agnostics 53% Atheists 48% Muslims 44% Buddhists 41% Catholics 35% National average 35% Evangelicals 29% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/19/which-us-religious-groups-are-most-highly-educated/

An upcoming panel on the intellectual underpinnings of the hardship application with respect to #landmarks #preservation. Speakers all work in the trenches and are leaders in the field. Lots to learn from them. #architecture #NewYorkCity #Urbanism+

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost? uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go... #earlymodern #Tudors

A great choice and track record! A Public-Art Veteran Will Lead Creative Time www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/a...

Son et lumière at #FortGreeneOrchestra concert at Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph.

Groups sue Trump administration over Pride flag removal at Stonewall https://gothamist.com/news/groups-sue-trump-administration-over-pride-flag-removal-at-stonewall

Probably likes the one at Mar-a-Lago because it conjures up Warner Sallman’s Head of Jesus. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

Voice opinions on #ballroom by March 4, 2026. James Russell’s Substack has great talking points. I’ll post link to it. #architecture #WhiteHouse #WashingtonDC savingplaces.org/public-comme...

My comment on #ZacharySmall @NYTimes article about efforts, in #SanFrancisco, to help #artists stay put. #Urbanism+

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised! New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

Read more here from @davecolon.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/13/d...

Republicans are about to shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA in a few hours. Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online. We will never let you steal the midterm election.

It’s not all negative either. Speakers present cool and constructive ideas for adaptive reuse.

Please do sign/repost the petition to save the Wilbur J. Cohen building in DC. Thanks! c.org/27WcGRYfZ2 #arthistory #architecture #preservation #Academicsky #murals #NewDeal

Great webinar on the challenges of and possibilities for saving #NewDeal #WilburJCohen building and its important and irreplaceable art. Compelling and helpful commentary by the players on the front lines of this effort. You’ll learn a lot. youtu.be/GSFZzLIGgaM?...

6 February 1778: after the American victory at Saratoga, France commits to Treaties of Alliance and of Amity & Commerce with the United States, which would in turn lead to the decisive victory at Yorktown. Treaty Room in former Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Navy, Foreign Ministry

2 maps, by Rigobert Bonne, of the new United States in 1780 on the eve of the decisive American victory made possible by the alliance with France concluded on 6 February 1778 from a 1780 edition of Abbé Raynal's great anticolonial History of the Two Indies

www.cfr.org/articles... Trump’s repeated criticisms of U.S. allies tap into a longstanding vein of doubt.... If the thirteen colonies had not signed the Treaty of Alliance w France on February 6, 1778, the American Revolution might have failed, & United States might not exist

#Renoir #drawings, a fascinating, refreshingly not-blockbuster-scale exhibition @MorganLibrary open only through February 8. Also great focus room on Caravaggio Boy with Fruit on loan from Borghese Gallery. Worth braving arctic cold for. #arthistory

Nauseating and childish. Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics share.google/tQywuLLJNoI3...

A leading journalist on #architecture explains in detail why the Trump East Wing designs are so bad, and the implications, from a #design, political, and social historical point of view. #WhiteHouse exphttps://james560.substack.com/p/trumps-slapped-together-seat-of-empire?utm_medium=emailh

James Russell on “the ballroom.” He always has terrific analysis and insights. #architecture open.substack.com/pub/james560...

📚 Book Talk: Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill 🎤 Author: Davida Siwisa James 🎙 Moderator: Jane Tillman Irving 📍 Location: Virtual 📅 Date: January 28, 2026 🕕 Time: 6:00 PM 🎟 Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...   #Urbanism+ #Harlem #architecture #NewYorkCity #preservation

It is long overdue for House GOP to put an end to this madness and defend our country from the unlawfulness of this administration.

In my post yesterday, I wrote, "The narrative of a religious revival in the U.K. appears to be receiving much more attention than data and commentary challenging this narrative." Here's a just published example: www.christiantoday.com/news/2025-wa...

TONIGHT! OPENING RECEPTION: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF #EBONY 6-8pm at The Arsenal, 830 Fifth Ave. at 64th Street. Photo exhibit up through March 13. #Photography #blackhistory

Museums & galleries in Minneapolis join citywide general strike in protest of Ice operations www.theartnewspaper.... Along with famous institutions such as the Walker or Minneapolis Institute of Art, #Minnesota Center for #Book Arts https://mnbookarts.org/#Minnesota

If in Midtown before January 23, this and the other shows of #Americana, including Jimmy and Roslyn Carter collection at ⁦‪#Christies‬⁩ not to be missed!!! #painting #auction

Informative video on how AI data center demand is creating a huge shortage of RAM, as well as SSDs and other storage devices. The only saving grace is that it may result in more older computers, or their components, being used longer, rather than being trashed.

Damn straight. “Silencing 2,500-year-old ideas from one of the world’s most influential thinkers [Plato] betrays the mission of higher education and denies students the opportunity to engage critically with the foundations of Western thought.” @aaup.org

The financial instability of The NewsHour is a civic crisis. PBS’s flagship nightly news broadcast can’t fund a weekend broadcast or keep its last bureau — Phoenix — open.

Meanwhile, the department, without a director, will have to vet hundreds of high-level Mamdani appointments.

The difference between selling and persuasion and what it says about our culture. We review #TheArtofSellingYourself (sort of): the-agency-review.com/art-selling-... #selling #persuasion #advertising #marketing #business #culture @TarcherPerigee

Terrible.