Carson Chan

A hand holding a copy of "Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists is Shaping the Memorial Landscape" by Cat Dawson against a plain background.

Delighted to share that Berlin-based architecture writer and curator @carsonchan.bsky.social has included Cat Dawson's "Monumental" in his holiday list of 10 books that defined the year in #design. Read the full list at Cultured Mag: www.culturedmag.com/article/2025... @culturedmag.com.web.brid.gy

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Who remembers the Metaverse?

Send 6 non-celebrity, regular women to space. Then you can have my attention.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Of the 3 Canadians I spoke to in the past week in NYC, all are either leaving in the next months or not renewing their visas.

My response to “what is the best way to fight the climate crisis” of late has been EDUCATION. We have the means, the technology, we just need the society and culture to follow.

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

Enroute from Anchorage to Fairbanks.

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The Tariffs Were Never Real Donald Trump does not appear eager to follow through on one of his biggest campaign promises.

“Trump is behaving like a man who has lost the appetite for aggressive tariffs—if he ever had it in the first place,” Rogé Karma writes:

Come work with us at MoMA! 2 summer internship positions in architecture and design now open for applications. Apply here: shorturl.at/Q2Uu8

Walk through of Pirouette, @paolaantonelli.bsky.social new show at MoMa

Excited to be speaking at the Anchorage Design Week in February! First time in Alaska!

Congrats to all the winners of the National Design Award! Thank you Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian for having me on the jury and thanks to the other jurors for the engaging discussions!

Is this my new emotional support algorithm?

Incredible show by the incomparable @paolaantonelli.bsky.social and Maya Ellerkmann just opened last night at MoMA!

Strong facade game

Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg

Alexander Calder, Cow, c. 1926

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Behold, Washington’s life mask. They greased up his face before slathering plaster on it. #washington #morganlibrary

Full house last night for “Wet Urbanisms” at MoMA last night! Thanks for joining us last night!

It was in the discount section.

Thanks @lcszacka.bsky.social for the book!

Careers Career opportunities and job postings with Simon Fraser University (SFU) Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Whoa neat job alert:

The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Critical Data Studies and Computational Social Science at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 15, 2025.

Less musky here

Dinner with dear friend James Wines, Suzan Wines, and Philip Denny :)