This formerly bland area of DC is being absorbed into the national-affiliation-memorial-industrial complex, except if Cohen building goes, social securityβs out. www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
06.12.2025 18:02 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@urbaninsideout.bsky.social
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This formerly bland area of DC is being absorbed into the national-affiliation-memorial-industrial complex, except if Cohen building goes, social securityβs out. www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
06.12.2025 18:02 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Planned Fallen Journalists Memorial is for site a block E of Eisenhower Memorial, and directly across from Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, which, along with its important murals and sculptures, is presently threatened with destruction by prez administration. fallenjournalists.org/the-memorial...
06.12.2025 17:52 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much, Michael.
04.12.2025 04:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hate to share this very sad news about my former Stony Brook colleague, Ann Eden Gibson. She was the loveliest person, in addition to being a pioneering scholar of Black and #LGBT art, and a much-loved teacher. www.sensiblecf.com/obituaries/a...
04.12.2025 02:23 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Great view of the [pre-internet] research methods involved in developing the pathbreaking book New York 1900. You have no idea of how hard and dirty this was!! Also wonderful first-hand story of working with #RobertAMStern. #architecture #NewYorkCity #Academicsky commonedge.org/how-robert-a...
03.12.2025 18:45 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Scenes from newly reopened #StudioMuseumofHarlem
01.12.2025 03:08 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Happy Thanksgiving to my dear American friends!
27.11.2025 17:27 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0An important, helpful resource for understanding past and threats to the #NewDeal art, so crucial to the US cultural landscape and legacy. livingnewdeal.org/art-preserva...
27.11.2025 12:56 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt see how this insipid image can appeal on any level, much less influence someone to buy something. But Iβm not the target audience. Happy Thanksgiving!
27.11.2025 12:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Fogel murals are major. Can say more later. www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
26.11.2025 13:06 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This is in fact helpful, but I get your driftβthanks very much for the link!
26.11.2025 13:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Would put it a bit more forcefullyβthe art and architecture MUST be saved!!! βThe art and architecture of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building is worth savingβ www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...
26.11.2025 12:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Good one! In NYC, however, it wouldnβt get picked up. Would need to be placed in architectonic trash receptacles or bound into orderly form with twine.
26.11.2025 12:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
26.11.2025 11:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Is there a specific programmatic reason for this particular look? Seems a little busy. #architecture #museum
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25.11.2025 16:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I agree! Quite a commitment from this organization.
23.11.2025 14:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Great #preservation success story in #Florida. commonedge.org/flagler-coll...
23.11.2025 14:22 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0www.wral.com/story/white-... This is great news for the public, but oh, the priceβwhoa! #illustration #art #NormanRockwell
23.11.2025 12:58 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Absolutely.
22.11.2025 01:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Makes perfect sense.
22.11.2025 01:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks so much for reading it, and for your kind words.
21.11.2025 13:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Read this to learn about so-called architectural "delineators"βa term, and occupation, I hadn't heard of beforeβand for an introduction to a horticultural designer with the perfectly fitting name M. Betty Sprout...!
21.11.2025 01:03 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Herewith my recommendations for one key yet overlooked area for positive Mamdani action. #Urbanism+ #statues #parks www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/no-...
20.11.2025 12:58 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
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The timingβs fortuitous; it augments perspectives presented in recent NYT article about βlostβ New York City waterfronts. Read my piece, then look at those pictures. Donβt take their makers for granted! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...
19.11.2025 20:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My latest, on famed landscape architects/planners Clarke and Rapuano and the delineators that helped to βmakeβ them, now in the 12/25 issue of #TheNewCriterion. #Urbanism+ #planning #art #illustration #landscapearchitecture #parks #highways #RobertMoses #drawing newcriterion.com/article/behi...
19.11.2025 20:53 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1It doesnβt make good sense. There are surely many jobs that Lander could do quite well in City admin, without his (or Mamdaniβs) political agendas having to drive the work.
18.11.2025 02:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looks great. www.nypl.org/events/exhib...
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