I CANNOT with this headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Well this was a lovely preview... "Isamu Noguchi: 'I am not a designer',"opening in under two months!

Anti-fascist #sculpturalthings

Abolish ICE.

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)

In these bleakest of times, I remain utterly amazed and deeply touched by the utter generosity and humanity of archivists, registrars, and collection managers.

Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.

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A must read for anyone connected to art history but also critical thinking...

Weird to feel excited about anything these days, but grateful to have the "distraction" of working on a project I deeply believe in. Thanks to Getty for supporting books about women artists and excited to (eventually) see 'Structure and Flow: The Life/Work of Claire Falkenstein' out in the world!

Sitting here wondering how familiar the Waiting for Godot set designer is with work of inimitable postwar sculptor Lee Bontecou

Please tell me again how AI and Crypto is the future and totally justifiable…

Taste of Chicago, in the great American city called “a hellhole” by a gangster President.

Still there. As of yesterday, at least. No telling what’s happened since, as I’ve been told that this majestic city is also somehow a hellhole.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

We've reached the "Degenerate Art" stage of this Nazi administration. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

What the what?! ‘One of the most notable tools is the AI grader agent, which Grammarly says can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor.’

I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days last week at Detroit's Hart Plaza, designed by Isamu Noguchi--a powerful reminder of the immense power and pleasure of public art (and huge props to the city for getting the fountain back up and running!)

Sigh. Just endless sigh.

Perusing archival photos of 'Sculpture by Harry Bertoia' (1975) at the Art Institute of Chicago and sort of losing it over the ashtrays placed on the benches (also so grateful to institutions, in this case @artinstitutechi.bsky.social for making exhibition archival materials available online!)

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A young Eero Saarinen (front)… or a long lost Finnish member of the Beatles?! (Also, duh, but this freaking family 🔥🤯🔥

conspiratorial #sculpturalthings

In other 👀 art news today...

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30 mins out. Chicago is showing up #NoKings

The dumbest of #sculpturalthings

Show up, show out, stay safe

Y’all. This is not the time to loose hope. They are escalating because they know they are weak and the majority of us oppose what they are doing. Bad shit is happening, but all hope is not lost. Act. Call those legislators, go out & protest this weekend, talk to your friends, donate to a bail fund…

They are taking away and endangering so much…

I can attest. The new archives space at @millerknoll.com is heaven.

Time to drop the really big bomb: The White House doesn't have the authority to fire leaders at the Smithsonian. Have a nice day, DJT! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You ok NYTimes?! Not that I fault their headline writer if they just decided to give up mid-headline...

Museum folk--does anyone recognize the inscription visible in the background of this installation photo. I can't determine which institution this is!

For the next two days (through 5/31), my book is 50% when ordered directly from the publisher with the code MAY25 used at checkout. Perfect for summer reading or summer cudgeling! It’ll be your book: use it however you want! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I love when iconic things exceed your expectations…

Picked the DUMBEST week for a work trip in Basel…

Well, Sol is not lost. But finding out what happened to the sculpture took days of inquiries from the Sun-Times — and the posting today of an earlier version of this column — for the federal General Services Administration to finally speak up.

I don't think "sad" quite covers it but yeah...

CHICAGO BORN POPE YALL

Dear artists, do NOT do this. Just don't. A black mark in art history. hyperallergic.com/1010092/us-g...

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Wait, is there really not a defining, career survey book or monograph on Herbert Matter?!