Michele Bogart

This formerly bland area of DC is being absorbed into the national-affiliation-memorial-industrial complex, except if Cohen building goes, social security’s out. www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...

Planned 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...

Thanks so much, Michael.

Ann Eden Gibson Obituary October 9, 2025 - Sensible Funerals & Cremation View Ann Eden Gibson's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

I 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...

How Robert A.M. Stern Resurrected Architectural History On the occasion of his new memoir, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture.

Great 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...

Scenes from newly reopened #StudioMuseumofHarlem

Happy Thanksgiving to my dear American friends!

New Deal Art: Controversies Since 1933, New Deal art programs and the artworks they produced have stoked controversy. The entire project of using government funding to hire artists has been controversial in some political circle...

An 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...

I don’t see how this insipid image can appeal on any level, much less influence someone to buy something. But I’m not the target audience. Happy Thanksgiving!

Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Tourists at National Parks

Simply stupid.

The Fogel murals are major. Can say more later. www.change.org/p/save-the-w...

This is in fact helpful, but I get your drift—thanks very much for the link!

Would put it a bit more forcefully—the art and architecture MUST be saved!!! “The art and architecture of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building is worth saving” www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-...

Good one! In NYC, however, it wouldn’t get picked up. Would need to be placed in architectonic trash receptacles or bound into orderly form with twine.

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection Will Place Titans Like Basquiat and Warhol Next to Under-Recognized Artists The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, set to open next year, will place works by stars like Basquiat and Warhol in conversation with works by under-known artists.

Is there a specific programmatic reason for this particular look? Seems a little busy. #architecture #museum
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Soon!!!!

I agree! Quite a commitment from this organization.

Flagler College Invests in Its History The restoration and adaptation of the Ponce de Leon Hotel is an achievement that can, and should, be replicated.

Great #preservation success story in #Florida. commonedge.org/flagler-coll...

White House Historical Association reclaims Rockwell sketches for $7.25 million at auction WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Historical Association has reclaimed a series of sketches by American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell, spending a whopping $7.25 million at auction on Friday.

www.wral.com/story/white-... This is great news for the public, but oh, the price—whoa! #illustration #art #NormanRockwell

Absolutely.

Makes perfect sense.

Thanks so much for reading it, and for your kind words.

Read this to learn about so-called architectural "delineators"—a term, and occupation, I hadn't heard of before—and for an introduction to a horticultural designer with the perfectly fitting name M. Betty Sprout...!

Vital City | No City for Old Monuments? What our ultra-progressive mayor should do about contentious statues

Herewith my recommendations for one key yet overlooked area for positive Mamdani action. #Urbanism+ #statues #parks www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/no-...

Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
national program provides up to $3,000 to professional dancers w. financial emergencies & loss or lack of recent/current live performance work from circumstances out of their control.

accepting applications through 5:00 PM ET Tuesday, Dec 2.

What New York’s Waterfront Could Have Looked Like

The timing’s fortuitous; it augments perspectives presented in recent NYT article about “lost” New York City waterfronts. Read my piece, then look at those pictures. Don’t take their makers for granted! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

“Behind the scenes,” by Michele H. Bogart Michele H. Bogart on “Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965,” by Thomas J. Campanella.

My latest, on famed landscape architects/planners Clarke and Rapuano and the delineators that helped to “make” them, now in the 12/25 issue of #TheNewCriterion. #Urbanism+ #planning #art #illustration #landscapearchitecture #parks #highways #RobertMoses #drawing newcriterion.com/article/behi...

It doesn’t make good sense. There are surely many jobs that Lander could do quite well in City admin, without his (or Mamdani’s) political agendas having to drive the work.

Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way

Looks great. www.nypl.org/events/exhib...