Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
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Zach Mortice
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Required reading 🫵🏻
McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.
Worst part of NYC teams doing well is that it generates too many takes. This is why geographic media consolidation is bad.
I’m holding back my Obama Presidential Center takes till I file my piece, but I will say it’s rare for a building to dare critics to make the building a metaphor for a historic figure so flagrantly while that figure and their entire political apparatus are so throughly despised
REPORTER: Mr. President, what's your favorite Wu-Tang album?
TRUMP: What kind of question is --
[vance grabs podium]
VANCE: WHATEVER MAKES SENSE, YOU KNOW
it's crazy how being a weird chicago guy (non-pervert) is the meta for success and heaven
Tonight!
almost like secret societies are brokerages for prestige
Complaining about the arch / complaining about AI in schools this afternoon seems like two sides of the same coin.
i.e. There are no shortcuts in art and don't let powerful people tell you that there are.
”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar.
An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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Dare Obasanjo
Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice
So excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1.
U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...
