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Happy Labor Day 🙂

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Death by Gun) is a stack of posters listing the more than 460 people killed by firearms during a single week in 1989. Viewers are invited to take a poster as the stack is constantly replenished www.moma.org/collection/w...

Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.

Writing and teaching is keeping me sane…and both continue to feel more and more important as histories are trying to be rewritten. So enjoy a short read on Minerva Parker Nichols. @jstor.bsky.social @jstordaily.bsky.social daily.jstor.org/rediscoverin...

Building on his success as an architect and planner in Chicago, Daniel Burnham took American values and aesthetics to the new US colony of The Philippines. From architectural historian @ashleygardini.bsky.social: bit.ly/44HEK8I

On this date in 1776 the statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City. Because America didn't want a king who lived above the law.

After eight years, books and zines are still the star attraction at the San Francisco Art Book Fair. It kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday at the Minnesota Street Project.

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Crazy San Francisco fog pattern, a thread: Fog, a series, from Tank Hill Park. 1. 7:24pm 2. 7:32pm 3. 7:35pm

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Two years after joining an architecture firm as a twelve-year-old apprentice, Bruce Goff saw his first house design built in Tulsa, Oklahoma. bit.ly/43NYJ6n

Reposting for no particular reason

Realizing Wright and Goff shared the same birthday…which is today.

Hell of a photo

Thank you to more than 80 donors who have given gifts to support SAH through the 25 for 25 Appeal! Will you join them and give $25 or more to fund SAH for 2025? Learn more and send your gift on our website: www.sah.org/support-sah/...

Lemme explain why my heater runs in the summer…

Art history degrees - they won't make you rich but they will probably get you a job (but definitely not as an art historian). www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

This visit "never culminated in a full-scale raid thanks to informed staff who knew their legal ground and asserted their right to deny entry without a warrant." www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

"Half of all fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. come from California, and the state effectively produces all (at least 99 percent) of America’s almonds, pistachios, pomegranates, and walnuts." - californialocal.com/localnews/st...

As an architectural form, pyramids are generally associated with the distant past. But the pyramid isn’t an architectural form that’s relegated to history! From @ashleygardini.bsky.social: bit.ly/44ENUnX

Pyramids. Not the ancient Egyptian ones. For @jstordaily.bsky.social #Architecture #History daily.jstor.org/pyramids-of-...

The Director of SFMOMA makes over 1 million...I suspect there are other places to make cuts.

Art school graduates carry some of the highest student loan burdens in the US. If you are concerned about your wages being garnished due to collections being restarted, and attended a visual arts program at a US art school, I'm interested in interviewing you for ARTnews. My Signal is karenkho.45

Again, glad this is getting coverage, but the general idea that this is an issue for faculty to catch and fix is another major problem. We do not have the resources or training to be the defensive line.

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Been dealing with this since Covid…but want to say there are very practical things schools/districts can do to eliminate this. It’s no longer an issue at some schools I teach at.

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

Thinking about that time Alcatraz hosted a fantastic Ai Weiwei exhibit. Source of photos: www.for-site.org/large-ai-wei...

If you’re a disabled San Franciscan who can’t make it to a museum, art can come to you thanks to ‘Art Museum From Bed’ by M Eilo, a disabled SF artist whose work centers disabled audiences.

The deadline to submit your interest has been extended to May 16. Consider joining one of the fantastic SAH committees. #SAH2025 #AcademicSky #ArchHistory @sah1365.bsky.social

Back from #SAH2025, and gotta say, catching up with colleagues and friends I never get to see was a wonderful respite from the news cycle.

Seeking your suggestions What’s your favourite book on cities? I’m particularly interested in scholarly books that compare cities or use a connected histories approach (architectural/urban history/art/social history). Any historical period and region of the world is welcome, thank you!

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, The Fourth Estate (Il quarto stato), or The Path of Workers, 283 x 550 cm, c. 1901 (Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan), a representation striking workers walking forward together to demand their rights, an iconic image of twentieth-century Italy #MayDay

FREE special issue of JSAH highlights Architectural History of Atlanta and the Southern United States. Featuring archival articles and reviews spanning 1970 to today, this limited-time collection explores the host city and region for #SAH2025 Conference. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/j...

The absolutely fantastic SAH Contingent Faculty Committee is looking for new committee members to begin terms later this year. Please consider joining (we'd love to have you!) or pass it along to your favorite adjunct faculty members. @sah1365.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.sah.org/about-sah/ne...

“We really need this museum to represent Arab Americans in their own voices and their own words and counter a lot of misconceptions and stereotypes floating around.” —Diana Abouali, director of the Arab American National Museum

If you love the Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, they need some help to make it happen again this year. #Surfing #Pacifica #SFBA www.gofundme.com/f/bring-the-...

Artist Ruth Asawa was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Critic Sharon Mizota visits the artist's retrospective at SFMOMA with her mother, who was also incarcerated during the war. Read her review in KCRW's Art Insider: email.kcrw.com/ruth-asawas-...

Fun facts about milk regulation: before we had it, milk often carried tuberculosis and other infections and killed literally thousands of children every year. To make it seem drinkable producers added plaster dust, liquefied calf brains, and formaldehyde. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco r/brutalism

Still sad that Anderson’s Pea Soup closed but yeah, they definitely should redevelop the space instead of letting it sit empty. www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

The Society of Architectural Historians welcomes paper submissions for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City April 15-19, 2026. 50+ sessions target diverse topics across the length and breadth of history. Submit by June 5, 2025. www.sah.org/docs/default...

Renaissance terracotta masterpiece, the Compianto sul Cristo Morto in Bologna by Niccolò dell'Arca, 1463-90

"Now that the world aspires to democracy, why should billionaires and oligarchs define what our visual culture is?" Prepping for teaching the Guerrilla Girls next week. youtu.be/8uKg7hb2yoo?...

The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt, originally inspired by the project started by Cleve Jones in the U.S., “will make its first appearance at a major UK cultural institution when it is hung at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this summer, from 12-16 June.”