Nicholas Martin

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Ming Fay’s work is currently on view at kurimanzutto for the next two weeks, a wonderful show: www.mingfay.com/midniteporri...

Public Art — Ming Fay 費明杰

The artist is Ming Fay! www.mingfay.com/public-art

Completely absurd but also, 100% understandable given this country’s fucked up, broken media landscape

I remember at a family wedding a few years back folks learning about my work and asking “isn’t everything just NFTs now?” A completely absurd thing to assume. Those same folks today bring up AI every time I see them

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

It’s a trap lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Cynthia Carr also does such a great job of relating DW’s sense of humor in her biography, Fire in the Belly. One of the things I wanted to do with my essay was to similarly bring the work down to street level and acknowledge how, at that moment downtown, everyone was so into Rimbaud

David Wojnarowicz

This is such a beautiful piece by @oneillbooks.bsky.social on the David Wojnarowicz / Rimbaud exhibition at Leslie Lohman. I’ve been terrified of seeing my name come up in reviews of the incredible catalogue I contributed to, so this is doubly pleasing 4columns.org/o-neill-davi...

What a life. And his goth daughter comes along too sometimes

The Journey Of All 1,091 U.S. Roller Coasters Ends With A Toot Around The Track | Defector Rick Mathews has spent most recent weekends driving thousands of miles. Sometimes he flies somewhere and then drives. Sometimes he has several flights in a weekend between all that driving. This was w...

Yes in fact it is me tearing up on the subway reading about a dude my age riding every roller coaster in the country - defector.com/the-journey-...

We must preserve this primer pronunciation with the same urgency we preserve schism (it’s sizz-em!)

Included are letters wherein Cunningham discusses such topics as his move from his legendary apartment in the Carnegie Hall building and his feelings on the documentary film Bill Cunningham New York. It's a little trove!

Tweel, acerbic columnist for the Daily News Record and the Soho Weekly News, was dear friends with photographer Bill Cunningham for decades, and this small collection illuminates that friendship through photos, letters, greeting cards, and news clippings.

Very cool, and now accessible at NYU Special Collections: The Phyllis A. Tweel Collection on Bill Cunningham: findingaids.library.nyu.edu/fales/mss_655/

A sign reading “Welcome to Anaheim” with West street and blue sky in the background

I’m at #saa25

Joe's archives are accessible at NYU Special Collections: findingaids.library.nyu.edu/fales/mss_629/

Joseph Lovett, TV Producer Who Shed an Early Light on AIDS, Dies at 80

Mourning the passing of trailblazing TV producer Joe Lovett, the first network producer to spotlight the AIDS crisis with urgency and empathy. It was humbling and enlightening to get to know Joe and learn about his staggering career over the past several years. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

An underrated benefit of archival research is discovering all the stuff folks were up to on your birthday. Bill Dixon had a big night on the day I was born

I’ll try and post more

NYU Museum Studies students curated a very cool exhibition from the Downtown Collection which opens on Saturday 04/05: events.nyu.edu/event/361342...

You can find my email on the NYU library website, search for my name! Would love to learn more.