Michele Bogart

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

@NYCHealthSystem #ArtsinMedicine program, dedicated to using art for purposes of healing, is celebrating this month (and beyond) work by Black artists in its amazing collection. This new #mural by @mickalenethomas is one of many of them. 👏 www.rxart.org/projects/mic...

Action Fund's Preserving Black Churches Program Awards $13.5 Million in Preservation Funding | National Trust for Historic Preservation The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has awarded $13.5M in grants to date in 2026, supporting historically Black churches across the United States.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund awards $8.5 million in grants to 33 historically Black churches through its 4th annual Preserving Black Churches program grant round.
A total of #13.5m this year

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

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

How cool is this?

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century"
He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective

Watch it here:

Thanks for this!!

Mayor Mamdani just shared this on Instagram after his (unannounced) meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office.

Read more here: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Mamdani heads to White House for meeting with Trump on housing The latest confab comes after POLITICO reported the mayor and president found unlikely common ground on housing development in their first meeting.

While housing's the main topic, Trump and Mamdani are also likely to talk immigration today, per source.

Mamdani will be joined by Morris Katz, his top political adviser, his chief of staff, Elle Bisgaard-Church, and communications director, Anna Bahr. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Mamdani heads to White House for meeting with Trump on housing The latest confab comes after POLITICO reported the mayor and president found unlikely common ground on housing development in their first meeting.

New: In their meeting today, Mamdani and Trump are set to discuss ways NYC can create more "big" housing developments. This comes after we reported weeks ago that Trump grew especially animated during their first meet when Mamdani brought up ULURP reform.
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Join the Archive Project’s all-star group of experts (Anthony C. Wood, Laurie Beckelman, Michael Hiller, Frampton Tolbert, Emily Kahn, Adrian Untermyer) on March 12 as we consider the intellectual underpinnings of the hardship application. Register below:

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Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups, according to Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS). Seven-in-ten Hindus and 65% of Jews have a bachelor’s degree or more education. That compares with 35% of U.S. adults overall. On the other end of the spectrum, lower shares of evangelical Protestants (29%) and members of historically Black Protestant denominations (24%) hold college degrees. The shares of college graduates for several other religious groups range from 35% to 45%.

American adults with a four-year college degree
Hindus 70%
Episcopalians 67%
Jews 65%
Agnostics 53%
Atheists 48%
Muslims 44%
Buddhists 41%
Catholics 35%
National average 35%
Evangelicals 29%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/19/which-us-religious-groups-are-most-highly-educated/

An upcoming panel on the intellectual underpinnings of the hardship application with respect to #landmarks #preservation. Speakers all work in the trenches and are leaders in the field. Lots to learn from them. #architecture #NewYorkCity #Urbanism+

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

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#earlymodern #Tudors

A Public-Art Veteran Will Lead Creative Time

A great choice and track record! A Public-Art Veteran Will Lead Creative Time www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/a...

Son et lumière at #FortGreeneOrchestra concert at Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph.

Groups sue Trump administration over Pride flag removal at Stonewall https://gothamist.com/news/groups-sue-trump-administration-over-pride-flag-removal-at-stonewall

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Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait

Probably likes the one at Mar-a-Lago because it conjures up Warner Sallman’s Head of Jesus. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

Trump's Slapped Together Seat of Empire The White House Ballroom project seeks to create "facts on the ground" as a physical and irreversible manifestation of the power Trump thinks he wields.

Hate the #ballroom? Here are talking points about why it and the process are so bad. open.substack.com/pub/james560...

Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...

Voice opinions on #ballroom by March 4, 2026. James Russell’s Substack has great talking points. I’ll post link to it. #architecture #WhiteHouse #WashingtonDC savingplaces.org/public-comme...

My comment on #ZacharySmall @NYTimes article about efforts, in #SanFrancisco, to help #artists stay put. #Urbanism+

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised!

New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

DE-ADAMSIZATION: Mamdani Restores Multiple Street Redesigns Killed By Eric Adams - Streetsblog New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reviving four projects that bit the dust — often at the behest of powerful business interests — under Eric Adams.

Read more here from @davecolon.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/13/d...

Republicans are about to shut down FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA in a few hours.

Instead of getting ICE under control this guy is having another meltdown online.

We will never let you steal the midterm election.

It’s not all negative either. Speakers present cool and constructive ideas for adaptive reuse.

Please do sign/repost the petition to save the Wilbur J. Cohen building in DC. Thanks! c.org/27WcGRYfZ2
#arthistory #architecture #preservation #Academicsky #murals #NewDeal

YouTube video by The Living New Deal Preservation in Action: Saving the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building

Great webinar on the challenges of and possibilities for saving #NewDeal #WilburJCohen building and its important and irreplaceable art. Compelling and helpful commentary by the players on the front lines of this effort. You’ll learn a lot. youtu.be/GSFZzLIGgaM?...

copy on display in the Treaty Room, Municipal Library of Versailles: TRAITÉ D'AMITIÉ ET DE COMMERCE, CONCLU ENTRE LE ROI ET LES ÉTATS-UNIS DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Le 6 Février 1778. vignette of crossed branches, oval seal with 3 fleurs-de-lys, flanked by olive branches and surmounted by a crown [beneath: small library stamp in red] A PARIS, DE L'IMPRIMERIE ROYALE double line M. DCCLCCVIII. Treaty of Alliance with France (1778) | National Archives https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/treaty-of-alliance-with-france Introduction - Treaty of Alliance with France: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress https://guides.loc.gov/treaty-of-alliance-with-france The Avalon Project : Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France; February 6, 1778 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fr1788-1.asp

Treaty Room in the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Navy, Foreign Ministry, Versailles--today part of the municipal library entrance to the Treaty Room: text on a gold oval flanked by gold ribbons and garlands framing the arch of the doorway; above it, a landscape entitled "Le Vatican," depicting Rome viewed from the countryside The treaties of 1778 were signed in the Hôtel de Valentinois in the Paris suburb of Passy, but preliminary peace negotiations between Britain and the US took place in the Versailles ministry in 1783.

6 February 1778: after the American victory at Saratoga, France commits to Treaties of Alliance and of Amity & Commerce with the United States, which would in turn lead to the decisive victory at Yorktown. Treaty Room in former Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Navy, Foreign Ministry

map of the northern part of the United States from: Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre : dressé pour l'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Geneva: Pellet, 1780), to accompany the Abbé Raynal's great anticolonial history of the east and west Indies

map of all of North America and Central America, with the top of South America (original color: e.g. United States outlined in deep yellow/maize, Canada in pink, Louisiana in dirty green, Spanish territories in light yellow same source as the other map Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre : dressé pour l'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Geneva: Pellet, 1780), to accompany the Abbé Raynal's great anticolonial history of the east and west Indies

2 maps, by Rigobert Bonne, of the new United States in 1780 on the eve of the decisive American victory made possible by the alliance with France concluded on 6 February 1778

from a 1780 edition of Abbé Raynal's great anticolonial History of the Two Indies

How a Treaty With France Helped Secure American Independence | Council on Foreign Relations The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful effort to overthrow British rule. 

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Trump’s repeated criticisms of U.S. allies tap into a longstanding vein of doubt....
If the thirteen colonies had not signed the Treaty of Alliance w France on February 6, 1778, the American Revolution might have failed, & United States might not exist