"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others. https://c-monster.org https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
This is ugly as hell and I don't for a second buy that this is actual gold.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
I never met sculptor Melvin Edwards, but I feel like I got to know him through my visits to Juan Sánchez's studio — which I wrote about for Momus. momus.ca/2026/07/30/y...
“You Create Your Own Situation”: On Mel Edwards and Juan Sánchez | MomusIn the spring of 2013, I made the first of many visits to the Brooklyn studio of Juan Sánchez, to begin research on a monograph about his work. Back…momus.caMy man Juan Sánchez's traveling retrospective will kick off at the Phillips Collection in DC next summer — followed be stops at the Whitney and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico! 💃🏽 www.phillipscollection.org/event/2027-0...
Juan SánchezStates of Liberation will be the first traveling retrospective of Juan Sánchez (b. 1954, New York, New York), one of the founding figures of Latinx art in the United States. For over four decades, Sán...www.phillipscollection.orgDelighted to dig into some of the works that made Betye Saar such a special artist for the NYT — with gift link! (I actually remembered.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...
7 of Betye Saar’s Most Important Works (Gift Article)The artist, who died just short of her 100th birthday, subverted racist tropes by turning mammy dolls into warriors and presenting the breadth of the Black experience.www.nytimes.comThis is the same pat JD Vance gave Usha on her knee.
Bryan BlessedI feel kinda bad for almost soiling myself laughing at this and yet, here we are.
"The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall." newrepublic.com/article/2136...
There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill ItHollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.newrepublic.com"The father and son are founder and president, respectively, of WallBuilders, a Christian nationalist advocacy organization founded in 1988. WallBuilders aims to 'teach US history and how our beginnings were overwhelmingly rooted in Christian ideology.'” popular.info/p/the-fake-h...
The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusadeLast Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...popular.infoYour personal health data at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy FeaturesOura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide...www.eff.orgJust in time for a war!
ArtforumNearly 20 years after it was first announced, the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has finally revealed an opening date of December 11. The new modern and contemporary art museum in the United Arab Emirates’ capital was designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry.
I helped end the Clone Wars from my lair in Coruscant.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸Trump: “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting, and it was a bad one.” Fact-check: False. There was no conflict between Cambodia and Armenia.
“It’s like they abolished slavery, but they kept Black people in the kitchen as mammy jars,” Saar said. “I had this Aunt Jemima, and I wanted to put a rifle and a grenade under her skirts. I wanted to empower her. I wanted to make her a warrior.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac, has diedBetye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...www.latimes.comMy favorite Betye Saar quote was in a story I did in 2015 about how LA museums were then failing to engage her work. Her response: "They can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks. Then they will pay for their hesitation.” Love her. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Column: Betye Saar's art on race couldn't be timelier. So why aren't more museums showing her work?It's not for nothing that Betye Saar's traveling museum show is called "Still Tickin'."www.latimes.comRest in Power Betye Saar. A true great.
Jessica GeltA beautiful testament to Betye's life by @cmonstah.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I too would like a job with health bennies and a government pension that allows me to just disappear off the face of the earth for 40 days.
Scott HortonMitch McConnell’s aides have provided an “update” about his health that includes no photo or video evidence of the Republican senator himself, serving to escalate speculation about his death or incapacity. www.thedailybeast.com/mcconnell-ai...