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essayist. museum editor. playlister. www.erinlangner.com
We’ve got this,
#lambs
. Mariah’s parallel status as Queen of Sadness shall go unrecognized no more.
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The New York Review of Books
13 days ago
“If at times such foundations seem to loom large, it is because in the United States, government support for health care, education, and the arts is far more limited than in nearly every other democratic nation.” —Aryeh Neier and Gara LaMarche on private philanthropy
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Trump’s Attack on Philanthropy | Aryeh Neier, Gara LaMarche
Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies tha...
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/trumps-attack-on-philanthropy-neier-lamarche/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-26_Neier-Philanthropy-2
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Raider
15 days ago
Across Georgia, thousands of students are making the same calculation. From Lakeside High to Kennesaw State, they’re deciding that a suspension is a small price to pay to draw attention to the actions of ICE and the recent tragic deaths in Minneapolis.
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Kristen Radtke
18 days ago
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being.
@theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IktWYlQ1a1F1ZUUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84Njg1NjcvYWxleC1wcmV0dGktbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hpbGRob29kLWZyaWVuZCIsImV4cCI6MTc2OTk2NDA1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzY5NTMyMDU1fQ.FrZ0NlULSpVamKAg761dJTzxcH4-LkVYlrvVVZb2ZFc&utm_medium=gift-link
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Ami Fields-Meyer
20 days ago
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14
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Carolina A. Miranda
about 1 month ago
A petition to save the WPA murals inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Building in DC (which the GSA has put up for sale) now has almost 7,000 signatures. Murals are by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, Seymour Fogel, Richmond Barthé, Ethel and Jenne Magafan, among others.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
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Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-wilbur-j-cohen-building-the-sistine-chapel-of-the-new-deal?cs_tk=A8aMO2dfTStVUyqEXmkAAHicq64FAAF1APk4NjI0YzQxMDk2ZDllZTkzOTBjOTlkMGJhNTU3NzRkNjY1NTM5NWY3OGZlNjA2MGYwZmIyYjFmMThjYTlhNGE5&utm_campaign=95d60e8fddfd483d8d78b7843cf0e278&utm_content=20251204_supporter_onboarding_3a&utm_medium=email&utm_source=504667_new_supporter_onboarding_comments_v1_day5&utm_term=itbl
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‘Your children, motherless, and the president says, “Good.”’ —Danez Smith
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An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a69957102/elegy-for-renee-nicole-good/
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This article says it all. The preemptive censorship. The country’s largest museum body cowering instead of leading. And the head of the Smithsonian deciding which hill he’ll choose to die on.
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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’
The long read: The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/donald-trump-smithsonian-reframe-entire-culture-united-states?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Mattilda B Sycamore
about 1 month ago
"So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action." Thank you,
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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niina pollari
2 months ago
This review by Erin is a delight -- insightful literary analysis without loss of context. (In addition, I am a huge fan of thinking while riding the bus, which this review also has)
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I reviewed Damion Searls’s great novella on navigating the present + making nostalgia meaningful for Zona Motel
open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
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REVIEW: Analog Days by Damion Searls
Damion Searls's new novella shows us that the surrounding noise, innocuous as it might seem at times, is valuable; that the foreground and background are both essential to meaning.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zonamotel/p/review-analog-days-by-damion-searls?r=8g1yb&utm_medium=ios
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
3 months ago
In the official photo provided by Bongino, the faces are blurred out. That's ... not how any of this works.
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'The Bean' artist, Chicago nonprofit respond to Border Patrol photo op: report
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-cloud-gate-artist-response-border-patrol-photo.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17631723437363&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox32chicago.com%2Fnews%2Fchicago-cloud-gate-artist-response-border-patrol-photo
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Rachel Maddow
4 months ago
“Dozens of prominent artists and cultural organizations will participate in a series of artistic demonstrations to protest what authoritarian overreach by the Trump administration. The protests, known as Fall of Freedom, will take place on the weekend of Nov. 21...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
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Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/arts/artists-trump-protests-fall-freedom.html
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Saeed Jones
4 months ago
My review of Taylor’s new album is that when Beyoncé turned 35 she made LEMONADE.
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Jack Straw Cultural Center
4 months ago
Jack Straw Writers Alumni Reading Friday, October 10, 7pm Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE FREE
#JackStrawWriters
#RecordingStudio
#Seattle
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Brian Stelter
5 months ago
Let's reminder that Disney arguably started this wave of media capitulation by settling Trump's lawsuit against ABC last December. And now here we are...
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Brian Stelter
5 months ago
"...weakening public discourse at a moment when open debate is urgently needed. Journalists should not have to fear losing their jobs simply for offering analysis or asking tough questions on matters of public concern."
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Warning of a Chilling Effect on the Free Press After Journalists Fired or Suspended in Wake of Charlie Kirk Shooting
PEN America: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measure...
https://pen.org/press-release/warning-of-a-chilling-effect-on-the-free-press-after-journalists-fired-or-suspended-in-wake-of-charlie-kirk-shooting/
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Dr. Lucky Tran
5 months ago
🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18. Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up. You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...
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Vauhini Vara
5 months ago
Today Melania Trump met with execs in support of AI in education. It's part of a big push by tech companies and the Trump Administration to get AI products into schools fast. If there's an American child you care about, pls read my recent article about what's happening. Let's be informed.
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How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids' Classrooms
Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-01/what-artificial-intelligence-looks-like-in-america-s-classrooms?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzAxODg4NiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3NjIzNjg2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMVhIMFNHUEwzV08wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0MDdDMzhCQjI5MjI0QkRFQkYxNUMzNDQyMTAxOEZFRCJ9.4jkj3VoGfhWqKkMBjIpybv7ciebRivpBkFEoFWHK0lc
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Carolina A. Miranda
6 months ago
Also, a show about Latino youth movements being replaced with one about salsa music.
hyperallergic.com/1037811/smit...
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Smithsonian Latino Gallery Quietly Closes for Nine Months
As Trump goes after the institution, a temporary space for the National Museum of the American Latino closed ahead of schedule in preparation for America’s 250th programming.
https://hyperallergic.com/1037811/smithsonian-latino-gallery-quietly-closes-for-nine-months/
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Mark Harris
6 months ago
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
6 months ago
Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.
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Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 135+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
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Carolina A. Miranda
6 months ago
Military "showing force" at the very same site where Japanese Americans were rounded up for incarceration during WWII.
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Stephanie Zacharek
6 months ago
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
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Kara Jorgensen
6 months ago
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Knew this was coming with the GSA shutdown, but it still shocks.
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Sol LeWitt's famed Loop sculpture goes into hiding
It took days of inquiries from the Sun-Times — and the posting of an earlier version of this column — for the federal General Services Administration to reveal its location.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2025/05/14/artist-sol-lewitt-loop-sculpture-federal-gsa-building
7 months ago
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Erin Kane
7 months ago
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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"I don't understand why we are the ones who have to change our behavior because somebody else decided that they were too angry to just walk by something that they didn't agree with," said Pelton.” And the unraveling continues at the Smithsonian.
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Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture
"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/28/nx-s1-5463593/teen-art-smithsonian-folklife-festival
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Erin Keane
7 months ago
The full March Xness — ‘90s Sadness Edition — list is out!
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The perfect excuse to finally delve into my beloved’s memoir this summer.
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March Sadness 90s Edition
7 months ago
With the 48th pick it's
@erinlangner.bsky.social
selecting Mariah Carey's "Without You" (1993):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hat1...
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Mariah Carey - Without You (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by MariahCareyVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hat1Hc9SNwE&list=RDHat1Hc9SNwE&start_radio=1
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“Ms. Sherald said that Mr. Bunch on Monday had proposed replacing the painting with a video of people reacting to the painting and discussing transgender issues.” Truly astonishing.
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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/arts/design/amy-sherald-smithsonian-censorship.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Teen Vogue
7 months ago
"It doesn’t matter if you live in a state where abortion is protected. Nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics and all of the invaluable services these facilities provide could soon be lost." Read the full op-ed here:
www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...
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Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," argues Kierra Jones, is part of "conservatives’ political crusade to ban abortion and gender-affirming care, and to deprive Americans of their reproductive and bodily aut...
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-congress-traded-pap-smear-billionaires-tax-break
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Ally Ang
7 months ago
🚨 Cover reveal alert! 🚨
@electricliterature.com
was kind enough to publish the exclusive book cover reveal for Let the Moon Wobble, featuring a gorgeous painting by Katherine Bradford. Read what designer Tiani Kennedy and I had to say about the cover here:
electricliterature.com/exclusive-co...
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The Drift
7 months ago
On the largest Ai Weiwei exhibit in the U.S., by
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Marisol LeBrón
7 months ago
Emergency press conference after Homeland Security and Immigration agents target the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago
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Honored to have an extremely abbreviated review of an Ai Weiwei touch station in the fantastic issue 15 of
@thedrift-mag.bsky.social
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
8 months ago
HUGELY Important.
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Colin Dickey
8 months ago
Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
1. Great ruling out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit has ruled that there is no "first amendment" religious right to discriminate against transgender customers. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Ninth Circuit Court Rules a Spa’s Anti-Trans Ban is Not Protected By the First Amendment
The First Amendment does not guarantee this spa’s right to turn away trans women, the court ruled.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ninth-circuit-court-rules-a-spas
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Maris Kreizman
9 months ago
Do I have to tap the sign?
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Celeste Ng
9 months ago
Records matter. Email to tell Congress to reinstate Dr. Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. It takes less than a minute.
bit.ly/EmailHayden
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blaise allysen kearsley
9 months ago
The FDA is stopping the Covid vax for everyone under 65 or predisposed (whatever predisposed will mean). Here’s the correct link to stop them:
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Cait_onthe_luce
10 months ago
Last night a number of small presses including
@twolinespress.bsky.social
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@openletterbooks.bsky.social
received this insane letter. Please read small press books, recommend them, buy them, request from your library. The continuation of these publishers is vital!
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Hari Kunzru
10 months ago
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cHCTXssMWuMweRLUjGQKtsck_rg7v4tMg7cpfzDQil8/htmlview#gid=0
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Carolina A. Miranda
10 months ago
Hello, U.S. museums.
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Erin Kane
10 months ago
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.
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In an extraordinary move, MFA to return prized African art to wealthy donor and close gallery - The Boston Globe
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/arts/benin-bronzes-lehman-return-plunder-museum-of-fine-arts-mfa-boston/
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My piece for ARCADE on why Sea-tac airport’s art collection is so important in this moment of assault on public art.
www.arcadenw.org/arc/art-that...
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Arcade NW
https://www.arcadenw.org/arc/art-that-does-more
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Carolina A. Miranda
10 months ago
Worth noting that the whole school vouchers movement has its roots in segregation. Also, kids with vouchers often don't do better than the public school population.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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