Lauren Alwan

Cherry blossoms, SF East Bay #FlowerReport #California

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles acquires Kara Walker sculpture made from dissected Confederate monument Walker’s “Unmanned Drone” is a centrepiece of “Monuments”, a landmark exhibition at Moca and The Brick

The Museum of Contemporary Art in LA has acquired Unmanned Drone (2023), Kara Walker’s reassembly of a 1921 decommissioned statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson.
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One of the most beautiful cinematic endings ever ✨

“…abstract painting resists narration and presents itself all at once, as a whole or a oneness that cannot, and never will, tell a story.” — Laurie Fendrich, from her 1999 essay, Why Abstract Painting Still Matters #SundaySentence (and one of her wonderful, reinvented modernist pictures)

Flowering foxtail agave in the SF East Bay. #flowerreport #california

“My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.” George Eliot, channeling the anachronist Edward Causabon in MIDDLEMARCH #SundaySentence

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

the beaches along the Bosphorus where my mother would take us to swim, the pleasure of swimming in the Bosphorus.”
Orhan Pamuk #SundaySentence

“Slowly they disappeared: the yalis that were burned down one by one, the old fish traps my father used to point out to me, the fruit sellers who used to go from yali to yali in their caïques, 1/2

AKA Everything Trump Touches Dies

A sidewalk Meyer lemon—winter in California is citrus season 🍋 #FlowerReport

This is a planet of overlapping lexicons,

Generation after generation, trade after trade,

Expedition after expedition sent out to bring home

Name upon name, terms of identity in endless degrees of intricacy

—Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing #SundaySentence

Bill Bramhall, NY Daily News

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As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly A group calling itself the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up at a protest this week carrying weapons.

Black Panthers are protecting Philly ICE protests

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Haha same!

A potted cactus submerged in a patch of oxalis, consisting of stems of tiny green heart-shaped leaves.

It’s oxalis season in Northern California 💚 #FlowerReport #rain

A sky of Iran’s and gold behind the silhouette of an elevated freeway.

Sunset tonight in the SF East Bay ✨

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Make it viral.

My latest newsletter looks at my years as an art student, the influence of David Hockney, my favorite sentences of 2025, and what's upcoming in 2026. Have a read—it's free—at mailchi.mp/a6e355c11bea...

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

Another day of rain in Northern California, but during last week’s reprieve, I passed this beautiful succulent garden of echevaria nestled in fallen leaves from a Japanese maple. #FlowerReport

If you're in or around NYC, this beautiful dog desperately needs a home. I guarantee he will make your hard days bearable and your best days better. Please consider adopting, so he doesn't have to suffer in this kennel.

This account also has some other great soon-to-be best friends in NYC

“The ability to combine contradictory methods and different stylistic traits, as well as contrasting techniques, in a sustained way over a period of time and sometimes in a single work is one of the defining features of Picasso creative genius.” A late entry #SundaySentence from Christopher Lloyd

My grandfather’s bakery on Atlantic Avenue in #Brooklyn, about 1942. Photo taken by my father, Muneef Alwan—my uncles, Hani and Ameen can be seen inside.

The little olive tree sends peace this December morning. #FlowerReport