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Colin from Bad Art

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1/2 of the Bad Art podcast. Weird interests. Morally opposed to art. Otherwise a good guy. Let's be friends.

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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey look, Bad Art Pod has been going for a full year! So much bad art...
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Jason Schadewald (He/Him) @jschadewald.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"When asked about actual policy, overwhelming supermajorities of the population (Democratic, Independent, and Republican) all supported taking money from the police budget and giving it to various social services (70% support overall!)."
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dem candidates are rushing to disavow “defund the police.” Meanwhile Trump is giving PDs $$$ on the express condition that they commit more civil rights abuses.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New episode of Bad Art Pod! This was a fun and interesting conversation!
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've been lagging on posting this, but I'm very excited about this episode. Please give a listen. Jenny is awesome, and we get to discuss her book about solidarity tourism, which is one of my favorite non-fiction books from the past few years. open.spotify.com/episode/1jur...
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Invited to Witness: Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Solidarity Tourism E16
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Check out the latest Bad Art Pod: We look back at at the man who called himself the “bicentennial president” — Richard Nixon — and the 1976 celebration he helped to plan. Examining the politics of past U.S. birthday parties, we ask what they can tell us about the present. How much has changed?
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America’s Birthday Parties Then and Now E15
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Always excited for a good monument story.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026
New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New episode of Bad Art! On this one we break down the issues with AI art. (Yes, AI makes bad art, but not for the reasons you might think)! open.spotify.com/episode/6WrN...
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Oh The Inhumanity: On A.I. Art. E14
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This story is bonkers. “Ah, welcome comrade.”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Here's a terrific tour of the nation's only public housing museum, built out of the last remaining building of an older project and containing 15 units of affordable housing on the premises. It seeks to reposition public housing as the worthwhile pursuit it can be. prospect.org/2026/05/29/a...
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Archiving Joy - The American Prospect
At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
the June 26th line up is literally taken from the I Love the 90s Tour, which is otherwise plays county fairs (their next date is in Tulare, CA, which is a pretty part of the Central Valley but also not the big venue) www.ilovethe90stour.com
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I Love The 90s Tour | Join the Nostalgia Wave
Discover upcoming I Love The 90s Tour dates featuring iconic '90s artists like Vanilla Ice and Color Me Badd. Relive the best decade in music with us!
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In the latest Bad Art, we're joined by Akil Fletcher, an anthropologist who studies the intersection of video gaming and race. We discuss “Relooted,” an exciting new art heist video game, where players raid Western art collections in order to steal art and repatriate that art to Africa.
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“Relooted,” The Art Heist and Repatriation Video Game. With guest Akil Fletcher. E13
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Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/04/2026
Here's what's happening at the MIA's #ArtInBloom: A man became agitated and called a nice florist a "propagandist" because she created a floral arrangement to pair with a museum piece (a 2021 photo of a boarded up Portland storefront, with protestor graffiti painted over).
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Here's Shepard Fairey explaining that he doesn't care if his art causes gentrification (Many of his commissions come from property developers for that purpose). When this is the way you make your career, I don't think its appropriate to turn around and pretend to be a social justice artist.
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Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Not surprising.
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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Pop quiz: Is this art A) an $11.5million mural welcoming tourists to Philadelphia for the sesquicentennial B) themed wallpaper in a South Philly Taco Bell C) an off brand trapper keeper D) other (your choice).
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On the latest Bad Art, Mariel and I talk about the proliferation of atrocity images on social media and how these confrontations with death inform our politics. open.spotify.com/episode/7rj3...
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Social Death: on the social mediatization of atrocity E12
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is real
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 26/03/2026
This is the premise of Ian Alan Paul's excellent though regrettably speculative project www.guantanamobaymuseum.org
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The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History
The Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History, located at the former site of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba, is an institution dedicated to remembering the U.S. prison which was active betwe...
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I have a new article out in Transforming Anthropology: It traces efforts to preserve public memory from the George Floyd uprising in Minneapolis. Here's the link. Let me know if you need access: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I don’t know how to say this intelligently — first of all, abolish ice — but when I see these pictures, the rhyme with useless police officers standing around on subway platforms (taking money that could go to making the trains work) is unavoidable. Something something carceral state. Burn it down.
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Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com · 24/03/2026
so delightfully petty. Endorsed
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New episode: “Can Art Solve Poverty” – We look at the ways that some urban planners claim that investment in the arts can solve wider urban problems. While they are wrong, art cannot solve poverty (spoiler) – We investigate the pernicious impacts of using art as a substitute for government.
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Can Art Solve Poverty? – (The Creative City Episode)
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · March 17 · 1h 13m
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is a wild dive into scrabble word lists and the ghost words that exist no where else.
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
'The violent media campaign orchestrated by the fascists against me, spearheaded by the New York Post, has now taken a turn towards art criticism to denounce my public art piece, Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the people of the Bronx.' -- Shellyne Rodriguez
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Why My Public Art Drives the Right Nuts
"Phoenix Ladder" is an homage to the people of the Bronx, a lighthouse for our collective futures, and our witness.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This week @jamellebouie.net had some questions for me about where the US is at now and why the term "concentration camp" might be a useful way to think about the crisis. (He interviewed me eight years ago for Slate on a similar topic. Let's hope we don't end up having the same discussion in 2034.)
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What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’?
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Impossible not to interpret this as a big FU to Rocky and his weird racial politics…
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well, that was great.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Yes please.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hey, Mariel and I put together a deep dive into the history and politics of the halftime show. To help you get ready for the big game, we talk about Bad Bunny, Beyonce, Nipplegate, Kaepernick, and much much more. Hope you enjoy. open.spotify.com/episode/4OLD...
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Bad Art’s Halftime Spectacular E10
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/01/2026
Today in influencers saying fuck ICE, a popular dog rescue account interviewed an immigration expert to have them explain how deportation directly relates to animal welfare www.instagram.com/reel/DUItURW...
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I love Moon Palace Books.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We’re up – our episode about the art/aesthetics of the war on terror is now live on all your favorite streaming platforms. We recorded this weeks ago, so not intended as a commentary on current events, but highly relevant to the current moment.
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Aesthetic Violence: Art in the War on Terror. E09.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Makes me think of all the Iraq War cheerleaders who failed upward, now helm major news outlets, and narrate the events unfolding today. Being wrong about WMDs, being on the wrong side of history, did not hurt them professionally, and probably helped.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A significant difference between Bush and Trump is that while both are clearly very invested in the aesthetics of warfare, Bush wanted a sanitized image of (false) technological precision. Trump revels in the bloodshed… a pure fascist spectacle
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You may be interested to know that we have an episode coming out next week about art and war — it’s focused on the war on terror, so not about this exactly — (We try and fail to stay away from current events) But:
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
It should not be torn down quietly. Its destruction should be a public event. It should be pledged on the campaign trail by Democratic candidates. The day after inauguration, there should be a fireworks show over the White House as wrecking balls and backhoes smash the white walls of the fascist hangar. Citizens should gather in Lafayette Square and the National Mall and cheer as the gaudy pillars of the insulting structure are imploded by demolition experts. Let barbecues and block parties spring up around the nation as Americans watch the event on live television. Let there be a celebratory concert in front of the pile of rubble. Let us create a historic moment of national catharsis. Let us nonviolently smash the Trump era into dust.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Oh the world is such a stupid place to live right now. But if you want to know more about Trump and neoclassical architecture, listen to our episodes on weird little architects (e06 and e08). Against my better judgement we may have to do one on the typeface wars. lol. Sigh.
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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Do you want to know the backstory behind Stephen Miller's comments about beauty, modern art, and ugliness -- and what these had to do with the demolition of the East Wing? Listen to our episode on Trump's architecture program. tinyurl.com/badart08
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We’ve reached that point of cultural illiteracy where people think robocop is a message of hope. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Oh wow. Amazing.
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"Literary Theorists of the World, Rise Up!"-On the latest episode of Bad Art, we are joined by Nick Sturm, author of the Defector piece “Good Riddance to the Best American Poetry,” to discuss the reactionary politics of America’s most popular poetry anthology series. It’s a fun one. Hope you enjoy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/11/2025
‘This is fascist America’: Anish Kapoor may sue after border agents pose by his sculpture
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‘This is fascist America’: Anish Kapoor may sue after border agents pose by his sculpture
Artist says ‘military style’ raids in US are ‘beyond belief’ while discussing new Southbank show next year The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago, saying the scene represented “fascist America”. The Indian-born artist said he was sent the image by a friend who lives in the US city on Tuesday morning in a conversation about his show at the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, which will open next year. Continue reading...
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Colin from Bad Art @colinbadart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The latest Bad Art is my favorite so far. Its a deep dive into the NCAS, a conservative lobby org which writes Trump's architecture policy. We explore how they use art to advance Trump’s white supremacist, authoritarian goals, while also taking time to laugh at some of their weirder obsessions.
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Weird Little Architects E06
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