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 strikeβa very big deal)
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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 strikeβa very big deal)
I can't do it justice, I'm sorry. It is very colorful and minutely detailed and is about 24"x30". Ernest Thesiger was a magnificent old character actor and wrote a book about needlepointing.
He needlepointed this himself. It's a needlepoint pillow of the actor Ernest Thesiger needlepoint. It took forever and is awesome.
14.01.2026 23:54 β π 4085 π 195 π¬ 177 π 34I am sorry, but how is the US going to vote its way out of this?
08.01.2026 00:48 β π 126 π 58 π¬ 9 π 1Three cheers for Doug Varone! π₯³
30.12.2025 12:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An assortment of art posters + postcards
hand-scrawled noteson scrap paper, envelopes, receipts, etc., in a locked bulletin board case
Here: the bulletin board in my old office at The New School (π₯) and Morgan Bassichis's funny little notes
11.12.2025 07:25 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Every day during Trumpβs reign is somehow more disgraceful than what came before. Itβs absolutely disgusting watching this.
18.11.2025 17:56 β π 26 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0heartbreaking
14.11.2025 01:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A full-room shot with three sections of wooden bookshelves flanking the fireplace
Corner bookshelves
Wooden slats that allow for shelf adjustment
Removable bottom panel to allow access to wires
Among the things I hate to leave behind are these bookshelves. We worked with Philadephia Woodworking (woot!) to create adjustable shelves and bottom panels to allow access to wires. β¨ Scribing to the wavy walls of a 200yo house is no joke!
03.11.2025 20:44 β π 189 π 7 π¬ 23 π 0Tear gas being deployed blocks from my home this morning.
25.10.2025 20:59 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath
19.10.2025 20:54 β π 8753 π 1673 π¬ 232 π 166I appreciate the fact that the left is taking frogs back as a symbol from the right.
10.10.2025 04:42 β π 198 π 23 π¬ 4 π 2The full new Philadelphia Art Museum branding is out. I have mixed feelings, which is normal for rebrandings.
Directionally there's some good (I really like the griffin), but I think it also invites an identity crisis.
A thread with some thoughts:
I appreciate that this report captures the sense that Fringe season is the best time to be in Philly.
20.09.2025 21:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I do not care for the number of cameras I am captured by on any given day. I'm a nice little lady doing no evil deeds but on my walk to the damn library I hear this little voice coming from above saying "You are being recorded" and I feel like I'm in a dystopian teen novel, I hate it.
11.09.2025 17:34 β π 315 π 12 π¬ 21 π 3Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago 1:
Ring the doorbells of every single person staying in Trump International Hotel & Tower, no less than once every ten minutes, and ask them if they feel safe.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
29.08.2025 19:52 β π 1478 π 815 π¬ 73 π 33Union station, DC
25.08.2025 10:09 β π 4155 π 918 π¬ 103 π 195Is βdiversity tabooβ or is this a segregationist regime that hopes to reinstate open white supremacy.
It is absolutely wild (and fundamentally dishonest) that media is still reaching for euphemism instead of simply calling this racism.
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The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. Itβs also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent β including American-born civilians β during World War II.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/18/t...
Phillyβs gorgeous skyline as seen from its gorgeous ballpark
perfect night of baseball! and what a view! what a sky!
19.08.2025 03:20 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also the fact that Cherelle Parker is not out front and center doing everything in her power to protest the SEPTA cuts basically invalidates the entire point of having a mayor. I understand the direct impact she can have is limited but she should still be incessantly denouncing it.
14.08.2025 18:46 β π 163 π 30 π¬ 4 π 6I loved this show so so much in its Philly preview.
16.08.2025 18:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0former faculty / staff here π
15.08.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As Republicans at the state level in PA threaten to cut the funding for one of our nationβs most vital public transit systems, Iβm currently in Copenhagen where the contrast is wild. Public transit in Copenhagen is well funded, fast, clean, and incredibly reliable.
12.08.2025 09:53 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0Co-sign
28.07.2025 14:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. Sheβs watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, βI vomited blood.β
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...
interested!
13.07.2025 22:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0a young Meredith Monk bends over and stares at the camera; also includes a letter to the festival from stationary labeled Merry Monk
took this picture tonight at a fantastic archival exhibit at the American Dance Festival, just an additional receipt for your accurate thesis
13.07.2025 02:50 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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