Carolina A. Miranda

A kidnergarten where no one has had a nap time.

Photo by Kati Horna (1966) The artist is sitting in a room surrounded by his designs, including two of his Hand Chairs.

RIP Pedro Friedeberg 🫶
(1936-2026)

Yes. I enjoyed it a lot!

A man sits outside the door of a movie studio stuffed into a stiff tree costume that leaves him unable to properly sit.

We are all Brendan Fraser stuffed into a tree suit in "Rental Family."

On the day multiple media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile killing dozens of children in an Iranian elementary school, the White House's meme strategists posted a missile video soundtracked by Nelly's "Here Comes the Boom" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Gift, Tom and Remi Messer, 1986 © 2016 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Untitled by Alexander Calder, 1971
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Nope.

A digital display on a metro station notes that trains in various directions are 1 and 5 minutes away respectively. Also, a graphic at botto shows who crowded the individual cars are. In this case, each are green with only stick figure, to show that the train is not crowded.

On a new subway line in Santiago, the Línea 3: the digital boards not only tell you where the trains are but how packed the various cars are.

cc LA Metro and @awalkerinla.bsky.social:

One of these is just like the others: Three photos show the profiles of two major airports paired against the design schematic for LACMA

lmao a friend just sent me this

I've eaten with billionaire only once. It was after helping unionize his newsroom.

a painting of a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow ALT: a painting of a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow

Also the guy that called me a snob has a promotional video online for his art column where he brags about having lunch with billionaires lmao

A badly photoshopped image show an Aero Peru jet next to a small city airport terminal that happens to be the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A screen grab reads “The city’s museum snobs went on the attack, calling the design ‘a small-city airport terminal,’ and ‘the blob that ate Wilshire Boulevard.”

So Vanity Fair called me a “museum snob” for likening the new LACMA building to a “small-city airport terminal.” I stand by my reporting.

😆🤣💀⚰️

I don't know who designed it, but always curious to see how this history is remembered.

Also, it has some sort of water feature at bottom but it wasn't working when I was there.

A granite memorial takes the form of a square placed on one point. Flanking the two bottom sides are a list of names of the dead and disappeared.

Granite slabs in a tan color feature the names of the disappeared, including Daniel A. Castro Lopez, Sergio Contreras, Luis E. Duran, Guillermo Galvez Rivadeneira, Maximo Geoda Ortiz, Leonardo Henrichsen, Charles Horman, Ricardo Montecinos, and Archibaldo Morales.

A small flyer or sticker features an abstracted black and white image of what appears to be a man and a woman and the phrase, "¿Dónde están?

On the third floor of a journalists' association building in Santiago you'll find a small monument that pays tribute to journalists killed and disappeared during the Pinochet regime.

Among the names is Charles Horman, who inspired Costa-Gavras's "Missing."

I'm sure I went to this mall as a kid because my grandfather's home wasn't too far from here, but I had not been able to register all of this architectural awesomeness as an adult. Long live the caracoles!

I'm aware. I used to live here.

Sex shop at the Guggenheim, we are ready👠🔥

they are all over.

I don't know about that. Chileans are the least seasoned of all Latin Americans lol

Anyhow, if the Guggenheim doesn't work out, I have ideas.

An inverted ziggurat building painted white in Santiago that looks just like the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

A view of spiraling interior ramps show an array of small shops selling fashion, cell phone repair and more.

A shop window features a mannequin in a pleather bra and garters. Above her, a neon sign in yellow reads "Sex Shop."

I'm in Santiago and I made it to South America's Guggenheim. (It was on the life list.) Really, it's a spiral mall, or caracol, an architectural type typical of Chile that came about in the '70s. In this one, you can get your cell phone fixed, get your nails done and buy dildos.

That works, too.

The last one was tighter but I still very much enjoyed this one. Even when he's messy he's very personable.

With gift link! (I remembered!)

A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story.

"Today, the southern U.S. border is depicted by right-wing figures as a hard line between us and them, two groups with irreconcilable interests. In fact, it is—and has always been—a polyglot meeting point."

I review Álvaro Enrigue's latest for @theatlantic.com:

www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

I'm now "I'd like to go back to the hotel and do a face mask" years old.

A structure in a gallery reveals a cube made from stretched canvases. The rear of the canvases are visible, and one is cut to reveal that inside everything is painted black.

An artist who turned his career into an act of refusal during the Vietnam War — Sharon Mizota writes about a two-part retrospective devoted to the singular Wally Hedrick and why his work is so meaningful at this moment.

In Art Insider for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/wally-hedric...

Why We Misunderstand the Chinese Internet Journalist Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers traces how the Internet affected daily life in China, showing how similar this corner of the Web is to the one experienced in the West.

An interesting story about China and the internet.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

So advertising is truly going to be the death of us.
www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...