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Dorothy Vogel, Humble Collector of Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Dies at 90 Dorothy Vogel and her husband Herbert donated their entire collection to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

What a contribution she made to the world of artists and art lovers. A librarian and visionary collector with her husband Herb.

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The “Forgotten Man” of the Vallejo — The Sausalito Historical Society By Larry Clinton, Sausalito Historical Society We’ve all heard colorful stories about Jean Varda and Alan Watts aboard the ferryboat Vallejo. But before Watts, an artist named Gordon Onslow Ford was ...

Received exhib cat for Gordon Onslow Ford & Roberto Matta: La Dynamique intérieure, la sincère amitié. 1949 Ford purchased decommissioned ferry SS Vallejo, which became hub of artistic exchange and counter culture. Paging Colin Jost & Michael Che www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2019-columns...

@thisismattmiller.com Thanks for all the cool and informative things you do!

Reading this @404media.co piece points me to a Library Journal article from August about Amazon's "new online hub for libraries" including free MARC records. www.libraryjournal.com/story/amazon... 🫠

Further complicated that it is happening to federal libraries who buy from them while shut down.

Attended the first 5 hours and wish I could stay til sundown. A meaningful shared experience in a meaningful location. Thanks @shineslike.bsky.social for amplifying the event and to all who participated ✨

Jackie Ferrara, Artist Who Brought Mystery to Minimalism, Dies at 95

Good tribute obit by Deborah Solomon about Jackie Ferrara. I got to know her work at the Phillips Collection. She sounds like she would have been great to know. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Really Love (Audio)

Supremely sad news, a loss way too young. Brilliant talent and fellow Richmond native. Listen to the 2014 masterpiece that is Black Messiah today. youtu.be/mVsQwJfWzoI

Me: Oooh, that looks like a good article! Let me email myself the link to read later. [send]
Also me, 0.5 seconds later: Oooh, new email! Wonder who it could be? Oh.

Movie poster for Heaven showing faces floating in a dark background like stars in a sky

Heaven, 1987, dir. Diane Keaton

The Trump Administration’s Efforts to Reshape America’s Past Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian.

Jill Lepore revisits the Smithsonian’s bicentennial 1976 “A Nation of Nations” festival, highlights some of its excellent content. Heartbreaking to consider in our current situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

If you give money to one of the premier big-city public radio or tv stations, consider becoming a regular contributor to a station in a smaller town where you may have once lived or grown up, or even just drove through once and tuned in. 📻

Dr. Carla Hayden has landed w/ @mellon.org as a Senior Fellow ... www.mellon.org/news/mellon-...

Atlascope Boston Atlascope Boston is a tool for exploring historic urban atlases in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time. A project of the Leventhal Map & Education Center at...

The @bpl.boston.gov's Atlascope project is one of the most ambitious historical urban mapping projects around---a tremendous resource for folks curious about urban change, land use patterns and more---just awesome!

www.atlascope.org

@theoverheadwire.com, @universalhub.com and others.

Oh my... not The Anthem. It was at The Atlantis. Confusion in the marketplace. Apologies.

Thank you for your service, Michael. Happy Pride to all.

John Roseboro seated on stage at a mic with a guitar, crowd in foreground.

Opening for the amazing Mei Semones, John Roseboro boldly gets the audience to sing the chorus to a song they’ve likely never heard, bringing the charm offensive and just great music tonight at The Anthem.

I'm gonna say 100% yes

Gonna quit my meditation practice and just watch this full screen for 10 minutes a day instead.

I’ve kept a profile of Dr. Carla Hayden pinned to my office wall for 8 years. She has been, and will always be, a hero and inspiration to me.

A photo of a series of 6 article corrections published in the New York Times

Special Section: Museums- free from pesky copy editing

Brings to mind Christina Ramberg drawings www.artic.edu/artworks/154...

An open book showing photo of a letter from 1601 with intricate folding pattern and diagrams of the constructed folded shape.

Way too interested in this new book that landed in my office: Letterlocking: The hidden history of the letter. Can I learn to perfect the dagger-trap letter fold??

Silver gelatin photographic papers (1890-2010) database, from Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage:
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A Black-owned museum set to take its place in a city of mostly white counterparts, the Salvage Arc Museum has a distinctive goal. buff.ly/IOJtYvF

Shared 'Printer's Mark' with a few friends because who wouldn't enjoy a good poem in their texts compared to ...most anything else these days, really. 🖐️

Totally new to me, thank you! So wonderful!

A pleasure this morning to learn a bit about the fascinating Ursula Burghardt and Benjamin Patterson, Fluxus artists and subject of exhibition and fabulous catalog from Museum Ludwig, Köln. Exhib is up til Feb 5 www.museum-ludwig.de/en/home/exhi...

It's nice to hear Lorne Michaels *donated* his papers to the Harry Ransom Center. Lots of money in the "personal papers" business.

Thanks, truly, for threads like these. What a delightful reward for scrolling. It’s not all 🕳️