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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 1h
this is a very funny post when 2/3 of the donation is set aside to build a new CMU campus decidedly NOT in Pennsylvania
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 2h
"Big Ass Lake" Wikipedia article. "Not to be confused with Big Bass Lake. Big Ass Lake is a glacial lake in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada.[2] It is located 60 km (37 miles) to the northeast of Halifax, the capital city of Nova Scotia and 253 km (157 miles) from Sydney, Nova Scotia.[1] The lake was formally named on March 5, 1953.[2]"
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 2h
this made me think of the joannou yacht with jeff koons dazzle "camo" (which, when you google, the first result is @greg.org's 2009 post about it greg.org/archive/2009...)
greg.org
Razzle Dazzle – greg.org
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 3h
setting my calendar for 25 years from now when they announce the "F-45 Lightning Calder" with fully fade-resistant paint
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 4h
i'm not against the idea that there needed to be uniformity with the existing paint, the integrity of the work does indeed rely at least partly on its hue. but taking it to the army's r&d lab feels... yeah idk how it feels. i just know there had to have been another solution here lol.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 4h
calder family giving anish kapoor a run for his money on the "very specific color" contest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/a...
Then came the dilemma over the sculpture’s signature Calder Black paint, a light-absorbing matte black hue no longer in distribution. Before she was elected to the Senate in 2024, Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, then a county executive, learned of the problem and connected the Calder Foundation to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory based in Prince George’s County, Md. Leaders there said they could recreate the shade.

It was a persnickety detail, but vital to the project. Mr. Rower said his grandfather had a vision, and he wanted to honor it.

“My grandfather died 50 years ago this year, and his art still inspires people,” he said, adding, “Even if you don’t go deep, it still inspires you to have an expression that’s something more, something enriching.”

Senator Murphy, who long admired Calder and championed the project, said the sculpture reflected the idea that the Senate could tackle mountainous projects.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 5h
i have notification previews turned off for my phone, partly for privacy, but mostly because when It happens, i want to be surprised when i unlock my phone and see the news alerts. i deserve a good surprise for once.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 8h
it's quite funny to see tech guys invoke like, duchamp or hip hop samples or appropriation art to try and get us to see ai art/music as some kind of disruptive creative force. no, i actually don't think your slop is going to become a foundational cultural touchstone, but thanks for playing.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 22h
i find the ones in indianapolis funny only in that they take up so much gd space
Lichtenstein's 'Five Brushstrokes' (1983-84, fabricated 2012) at the Indianapolis Museum of Art/Newfields. Five separate monumental classic Lichtenstein brush stroke sculptures are arranged across a massive lawn, creating a choreographed view as the visitor walks around them.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
funniest part of the Danh Vo show at White Cube is the "McNamara walnut wood" he used to build out the structures in the gallery. as in, walnut wood sourced from the orchard in CA run by Robert McNamara's son.
Installation view of Danh Vo's solo show at White Cube. Several ceiling height wooden posts are placed throughout the gallery, attached to a minimal wooden scaffolding on the ceiling, holding several small glass containers and a hanging sculpture. Acattered around the room are several other works, including a sculpture with a foot brace and an ancient bust of a head, several works on paper and a ceramic on the wall, and a waist-height sculpture at far left.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
mostly a side note but i cannot believe i'm just now learning Burden told Abramović she couldn't stage her own version of Trans-Fixed. (he would've had trouble enforcing that rejection as you can't copyright the concept of vehicular crucifixion, but that's a whole other can of worms)
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
lunchtime thoughts.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
is this anything
the myth of "consensual" copyright. Andy Warhol Foundation & Pollock-Krasner Foundation & Joan Mitchell Foundation: We consent! Artists Rights Society: We consent! US Copyright office & US courts: We don't! Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
big hoodie tiny shorts, big hoodie tiny shorts, big hoodie tiny shorts. gay bears rise up. gay cubs rise up. sweaty gay guys arise.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
libra season aka princess diana weather aka winnie the pooh weather aka my favorite time of year
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 29/09/2026
serious question how in the fuck have these not fallen apart yet. especially if they're not in the (hopefully gloved) hands of a museum conservator. untitled elephant dung sculptures by David Hammons, 1983-85, at independent 20th century (ryan lee/salon 94)
A small irregular oval-shaped sculpture made of compacted elephant dung and other loose earth material/detritus. Several areas of yellow, red, and pink paint cover portions of the work, with the outline of an elephant excised from the pink paint on top.Another oval-shaped dung sculpture, this time with a band of silver paint covering the upper third of the outer surface, and with a rusted metal chain wrapped around the sculpture.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
next spring baby, thank u to everyone involved: www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
nga.gov
Glenn Ligon: Subtext | National Gallery of Art
One of today’s most influential artists proposes new ways of seeing art and histories through language.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
"glenn ligon at the national gallery courtesy of sam gilliam" is a wonderful sentence
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
i only started using archive today again after someone confirmed the captchas weren't ddos-ing that blogger anymore, which i'm honestly surprised didn't get them booted completely from using recaptcha's services.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
what am i supposed to do about this, recaptcha. why are you telling *me*
Captcha challenge for Archive Today. "This site is exceeding reCAPTCHA Enterprise free quota"
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
catalogue is not on sale yet but holy shit is it a monster. as thick as that wildly excessive triple-show felix catalogue but so much wider and taller. pissing me off bc i actually wanted to read all the texts i couldn't see bc of the crowds, but no way am i paying what they'll ask for that.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 28/09/2026
say what you will about taryn simon at the guggenheim, but for those of us who live in the dmv it's basically a greatest hits of "oh yeah, *that* hotel, oh yeah, *that* police department". really makes this whole town feel as slimy as it often is.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 27/09/2026
they're selling new Eggleston prints in store rn, so they may have gotten a very sweet deal as part of the broader partnership. so it may indeed be more expensive to reproduce in a course reader 🤒
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 27/09/2026
walked by jon caramanica in tribeca while listening to jpegmafia. then walked by him again 45 minutes later. this is a bad sign, leaving new york immediately.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 27/09/2026
and the alternative cannot just be bloomberg fucking connects. let's be serious.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 27/09/2026
arthur jafa show is intense and good, my only quibble is that if your museum is showing works in such consistently low light that people need to use phone flashlights to read wall texts, you should probably be providing an alternative. like it's kind of comical.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 26/09/2026
also this is a good pairing even if i am not a warhol lover
The full Felix candy work, installed in front of Andy Warhol's 'The Last Supper' (1986), a large painting showing a black and white stenciled interpretation of the titular scene, covered in screen printed logos for Dove and General Electric, along with a screen printed "59 cents" graphic.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 26/09/2026
nothing surprising happens anymore. it's all too on the nose.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 26/09/2026
the last version was also much more visually connected to its origin (it was first shown in a private park for brewery workers in Japan in '95 for an outdoor group show). in '20/'21 it had accoutrements pointing to its original site. www.winsingartsfoundation.com.tw/en/artwork/i...
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 26/09/2026
i'm very interested in the edition / dates tho. this one is dated '95-'23, ed. of 7. the version the gallery showed at art collab kyoto in 2021 was dated '95-'19, ed of "5 unique variations" + 2AP. so i think he's just re-dating it every time he executes an edition? and the APs aren't APs anymore?
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 26/09/2026
i also saw the philippe parreno melting iceman and i can't pretend it's not fun.
Philippe Parreno's 'Iceman in Reality Park' (1995-2023) at the Esther Schipper booth at Independent 20th Century. A half-melted ice blob in the general shape of a snowman, sitting atop a grate on a black metal box. Three buttons are stuck inside torso of the iceman, like a snowman's buttons, and two sticks extend out as arms. The whole thing is lopsided, having been melting since its delivery this morning.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
www.sothebys.com/en/digital-c...
sothebys.com
The Energy of Form: Works from the Estate of John Chamberlain
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
oh i took em off, per the sign just out of view, and as i sat there with my socked feet dangling over the edge while various collectors walked in and stared at me, i wondered if it was even worth it. and i think my expression captured that.
me, selfie on the pfouch, desperately trying to ignore the people watching me.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
should i post the selfie i took on the pfouch
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
pink foam couch = pfouch. i sat on the pfouch.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
i sat on the john chamberlain pink foam couch and all i got was the sinking feeling that i needed more hand sanitizer
The weirdest couch you've ever seen. A huge square platform of foam, covered in loose pink fabric, with three "islands" of foam in the center and at the left and right edges, forming two distinct niches for people to sit. Several works by Chamberlain are on the wall behind the work, all on view at Independent 20th Century at Sotheby's in the Breuer Building.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
(armory show was Pretty Bad and i know this is true because i was more willing to hike to moma than spend another minute there)
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
where the rubber meets the road, where the candy meets the wall
detail shot of a Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy spill [“Untitled” (Placebo)] at MoMA. A flat pile of silver wrapped candy abuts a gallery wall, with some pieces entering the space under the temporary wall.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
i’m at an art fair i should be mad abt something not copyright related, yet here i am
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
bad bill, ugly bill, harmful bill: lofgren.house.gov/media/press-...
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
at first I was like where’s ARS among this hits parade, but then I remembered they’re in a coalition already listed lol
This legislation is endorsed by over a dozen organizations: Motion Picture Association (MPA),
Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA), Information Technology & Innovation
Foundation (ITIF), Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), American Society of Collective Rights Licensing (ASCRL), Association of American Publishers (AAP), Recording Academy, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Songwriters Guild of America (SGA), the Copyright Alliance, Songwriters of North America (SONA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), CreativeFuture, Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), Authors Guild, American Association of Independent Music (A2IM),
Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA).
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
uva hats/sweatshirts spotted in chelsea AND tribeca, charlottesville i will never escape you 😮‍💨
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 25/09/2026
and another one (eric n. mack at paula cooper)
Installation view of Eric N. Mack's exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. An array of textile artworks hung on walls, metal sculptures, and from the ceiling.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 24/09/2026
alright if jordan wolfson is gonna do this, i should be allowed to call him the f slur
A flat, shiny metal slab propped horizontally against a wall, with spikes protruding from its corners at multiple angles. A black and white photograph of Felix Gonzalez-Torres laying on a bed is printed in the center of the slab.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 24/09/2026
the big repositories of information and scholarship are tempting for the machines that eat information and love to exploit system vulnerabilities? who knew!
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 24/09/2026
literally every day for the past three weeks i’ve been wondering when this would happen/if it already happened. it was inevitable, libraries are too big a target not to get, well, targeted.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 23/09/2026
very interesting read kunstkritikk.com/storm-over-g...
Kunstkritikk
But after just four months on the job, Christensen resigned and has now returned to her position at Nuuk Art Museum. She describes the plans for the future national gallery as "poorly thought through."
"They have approved a building without reflecting on what it should represent or what works it should contain," says Christensen. "Greenland's national gallery will be the first national gallery in the world devoted to the art of an Indigenous people.
That means we need to think carefully rather than simply adopt a traditional
European model designed to underpin the nation state which, at the time when most of these institutions were founded, was often a colonial power with a fairly complicated collection.
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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 22/09/2026
i want to see art but to see some really specific art you have to subject yourself to art fair attendees. you can feel joy and terror all at once.
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