Ellen Chenoweth

Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23 "This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.

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)

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.

I am sorry, but how is the US going to vote its way out of this?

Three cheers for Doug Varone! 🥳

An 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 (😥) and Morgan Bassichis's funny little notes

Every day during Trump’s reign is somehow more disgraceful than what came before. It’s absolutely disgusting watching this.

heartbreaking

A 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. ✨ Scribing to the wavy walls of a 200yo house is no joke!

Tear gas being deployed blocks from my home this morning.

people 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

I appreciate the fact that the left is taking frogs back as a symbol from the right.

The 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.

I 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.

Tasks 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.

Union station, DC

In Trump’s Ideal Picture of America, Diversity Is Taboo

Is “diversity taboo” 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.

A ‘Shameful’ Legacy: Texas Has Officially Opened an ICE Detention Facility at Site of WWII Internment Camp Camp East Montana is now the largest immigrant detention facility in U.S. history, but it’s just one of 19 sites that will add a total of 37,649 new beds for ICE detainment — a 105% increase in the st...

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The new ICE detention facility at Fort Bliss is the largest in U.S. history. It’s also one of five sites where Texas held detainees of Japanese descent — including American-born civilians — during World War II.

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Philly’s gorgeous skyline as seen from its gorgeous ballpark

perfect night of baseball! and what a view! what a sky!

Also 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.

I loved this show so so much in its Philly preview.

former faculty / staff here 👋

As Republicans at the state level in PA threaten to cut the funding for one of our nation’s most vital public transit systems, I’m currently in Copenhagen where the contrast is wild. Public transit in Copenhagen is well funded, fast, clean, and incredibly reliable.

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I Watched a Woman Nearly Die in a Cell Across From Mine. Texas Prisons Need Air Conditioning. More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning — that can mean the difference between life and death.

Please read this first-person essay from Lanae Tipton, an incarcerated journalist in Texas with a desperate plea for air conditioning in prisons. She’s watched women seize on the floor from the heat. As one prison staffer said, “I vomited blood.”

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interested!

a 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

this 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