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It’s been nearly a year since the last newsletter went out. I decided to take a break because it didn’t seem right to continue with how things were going in the world. I always saw this newsletter as a distraction from the bad news I was constantly surrounded by. I thought that if I didn’t read about mass shootings or police brutality that these things would go away. But the truth is, things have gotten worse, and an end seems unlikely. However, ignoring the news and pretending everything is fine is not the answer. So I’m going to try something different…again. I am back…if you’ll have me. But please bear with me while I dip my toes back into the water. Thanks for being here, and I hope you find a few things worth reading.

Some of this week’s links are behind paywalls, so you might need to view them through 12ft.io. Or sometimes, you can stop your browser before it completely loads the page.


Hood Century spotlights Mid-century modern design with Black influence

America, the Bland

Why does every store suddenly look the same?

Williamsburg’s luxury hotels thrive — for the moment — as neighborhood shifts

Developers have rediscovered Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, but can it sustain the boom?

Bed-Stuy’s Restoration Plaza project gets a little clearer

The branding dangers of a New York City public plaza

New park opening under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge will feature a restored Brooklyn Banks skate park

Decades-vacant former East Village public school is set to hit the auction block this spring

UK Supreme Court rules Tate Modern viewing gallery is a nuisance to neighboring luxury apartments

Glocalization: the most widespread architectural trend you’ve never heard of

The housing theory of everything

Lack of affordable housing in superstar cities like LA exacerbates homelessness

The top urban planning books of the year

The decline of the city grid

The dangers of elite projection

New strategies for preventing green gentrification

City planners are questioning the point of parking garages

One million square feet of LA roads are being covered with solar-reflective paint

Art painted on crosswalks makes streets safer

Free PDF architecture and race books courtesy of the Memory of the World Library

Printed Matter offers digital artists’ publications, available for free download (some zines I found helpful)

An extensive list of anti-racism design resources

This architect is on a mission to foster anti-racist workplaces — with a pack of cards

Oklahoma’s First Americans Museum embraces nature, exposes culture, and honors history

Taking on California's first mass timber building

Multi-residential building in Australia uses cross-laminated timber for its internal structure, making it much more sustainable and energy efficient

Seven alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials

Architects predict retrofitting, biomaterials, and grassroots design among the trends that will define the architecture of 2023

The world's skinniest skyscraper is now complete

Why skyscrapers are so short

The race to build wooden skyscrapers

A historic NYC Upper West Side apartment remains untouched

Tour Wyatt Cenac’s historic Brooklyn brownstone

Crisp and classic design elements combine in new Brooklyn bar

An Art Deco home in Mumbai is designed for hosting

How two vintage furniture dealers restyle their Victorian home on the regular

Seth Rogan is hosting a Mid-century Airbnb decked out with weed-focused decor and handmade pottery

Joan Didion’s NYC apartment is for sale

A tiny playful backyard studio for a writer

A 645-square-foot abandoned Lisbon attic becomes airy apartment with hidden kitchen

A renovation of a historical apartment in Kyiv

A 70-year-old guava tree sits at the heart of Mexican home

Architect turns 1930s bungalow into sustainable family haven

The Japandi-style family house of a Norm Architects designer

A flood-resilient U-House near Japanese lake

A 50,000-person, self-sustaining floating city prototype

How interior design has the power to change lives

Ruth Asawa’s masks

Using airbrush, acrylic, and collage, Cato produces cinematic snapshots of daily life

Jammie Holmes and José Parlá have been selected for the 2023 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship

New edition of Gordon Parks’ Segregation Story includes several never-before-published photographs that were discovered after his death

See In Black is a collective of Black photographers

A half-century of hip-hop’s visual impact is now on view at Fotografiska NY

The woman who documented New York’s street style of the 1980s

Five newly published illustrated art books celebrate an intergenerational slate of black artists

New monograph follows the evolution of Wangechi Mutu’s mythologizing practice

A massive exhibition of Wangechi Mutu's work is heading to the New Museum

Long-awaited Bean by sculptor Anish Kapoor revealed in NYC

The most anticipated art installations, shows, and openings of the year

Six art shows to look forward to in 2023

233 of Ruth Asawa’s masks made from her friends, neighbors, students, and family are publicly displayed in their entirety for the first time

120 artworks by Georgia O’Keeffe heading to MoMA this spring

The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts currently has a Basquiat exhibition up

Vermont museum to exhibit seventeen of Keith Haring’s subway drawings

First-ever Keith Haring museum exhibition in LA will feature over 120 artworks and archival materials

Fire Island Artist Residency is now accepting applications for their 2023 summer season from emerging visual artists who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, two-spirit, or queer

RISD Continuing Education offers over 170 online courses for adults and teens

Participate in Copenhagen Architecture Festival’s global short film competition focusing on the UN's 'Leave No One Behind' agenda

The best 2023 children’s books about artists

Alma Thomas painting sells for $1.2M

A chandelier purchased at an antique store for $300 turns out to be an Alberto Giacometti worth up to $3M

Frank Lloyd Wright’s office furniture is tweaked for the modern age

Why Atomic Age design still looks futuristic 75 years later

‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ debuts at Sundance

The history of misspelling Georgia O’Keeffe’s name continues with new tribute in Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal

Vast $40M art project in the Nevada desert, 50 years in the making, will finally open to the public

How do we embody natural spaces?

Orlando Museum of Art placed on probation after Basquiat scandal

Inside the unlikely artistic collaborations of Basquiat and Andy Warhol

The Chinese village that paints thousands of replicas of world-famous Western paintings a year

The art and science of spending money

From bowling alone to posting alone

Making sense of race and privilege

A mother's white privilege

What white children need to know about race

Three things to know about Black History Month

Thank you for making it all the way to the end. It feels good to be putting this newsletter together. I hope you like it.

Thomas

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