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Outdoor sculpture rotation- moved from Sculpture Walk Springfield in Missouri to Bella Vista, Arkansas. All fabricated aluminum. Me for scale. I still like this piece.

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It’s turtle-dodging season on the roads around here.

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we need to start making some things socially unacceptable again, maybe if we start small we can work our way back up. it is unacceptable to throw litter. absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. unacceptable

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I was notified that I got tenure yesterday, and my students made me this. This is better than the official letter.

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New iron casting exhumed from her bonded sand mold this weekend. Cast at the National Conference for Cast Iron Art and Process, poured off my students’ competition furnace. This was made by direct carving into the mold waste from a cast iron skillet mold, and I’m so pleased it.

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The kids are alright. (A great defense of #ArtHistory and counterpart to the STEM-heavy defenses of education.)

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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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This goes back to the thing of: it's massively helpful to do something you suck at. To experience the experience of not being good at something, starting it from scratch, struggling to improve at it over a long time. People who don't do this, tend to suck shit.

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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

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The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.

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Folks, this isn't complicated! Someone who says "of course I support protecting the environment," but then slashes the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, does not actually support protecting the environment! There's no need to pretend there's some secret brilliant principle here!

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Maybe we weren’t meant to wake up and read 20 terrible things immediately.

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Snow day sculpture time. New additions to my current large work in progress. Cast iron and fabricated steel.

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Holy fuck Oklahoma public schools. Holy fucking shit what the fuck.

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i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them

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Some new work in progress. New sculpture with scavenged tire and steel. And some cast wax hedge apples from an Osage orange tree.

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Coco Fusco in @hyperallergic.com ❤️🔥💥✨🙏https://hyperallergic.com/984150/the-sanest-response-to-insane-times/

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I’m no historian but it seems to me that this kind of thing should be understood as akin to the Nuremberg Laws. Pure fascism.

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These fucking losers. Being bad at making music has never stopped people from making amazing music.

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On day 5? of tenure dossier writing and organization. What is the motivator that got you through to the end? Is there a reward I can promise myself for getting through this 🤣 #academicsky

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Maye Musk stopped by Fox News over the weekend to tell Americans to have kids whether or not they can afford to: "You don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go out to dinner." www.jezebel.com/the-person-w...

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One of the best things the government could do to actually improve nutrition would be to expand SNAP, but instead we have Republicans talking about restricting it because they don't think poor people should be allowed to eat a damn candy bar.

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Ran some iron this weekend. It was a good time. Only burned myself a little bit. A small pour, we ran through around 600 lbs of metal in under an hour and a half.

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I once had a professor ask “Why is there a Business section in the newspaper but not a Labor section?” My classmates and I probably rolled our eyes, but damned if I haven’t remembered that question every few days for 30 years now.

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"Titus Kaphar makes painstaking copies of historical paintings and then alters them—with a whitewash, tar, by shredding or binding the canvas, by making paintings behind the paintings— to expose hidden truths." The Myth of Benevolence, 2014 Titus Kaphar www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

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New little sculpture, work in progress from the holiday break. Cast iron, steel, and copper. I love this little casting, pleased with how it’s going. The casting was made by direct carving into bonded sand mold waste.

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Rothko Chapel. James Turrell’s Ganzfeld. The entire Glenn Ligon retrospective. Anything by Leonardo Drew. Or James Luna. Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece. This is an endless list.

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a world in which only the elites have the luxury of studying and composing art and philosophy is a dangerous place.

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I also think the closure of liberal arts schools and the constant attacks on wide-ranging humanist educations are part of a push against the masses being taught critical thinking. Which sounds conspiratorial, but come on, this is getting real blatant.

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'The Mowaa Institute is a first-of-its-kind space dedicated to world-class, cutting-edge science research to develop new narratives and to conserve African art and collections' Prof S. Chirikure says👇 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Exhibition shot of one of my cast iron columns (I think it’s number 93?)- I dig this image of it in the old powerhouse-now-gallery at Sloss Furnaces Historic Landmark. Also pre and post shots from a performance I did on site, collecting and cataloging stories. Both shows were a couple weeks ago.

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Spent some time in Birmingham AL last week for a conference- aside from all the amazing sculpture, talks, and panels- I got to check out this old coke oven, shut down by the clean air act.

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Hey Bluesky, what are three of your favorite museums? (No particular order, only art for simplicity) -LACMA -The Art Institute of Chicago -Museum of Art and Design, Hamburg (Runners up- The Rothko Chapel- Menil Collection- Houston - Nelson Atkins Museum, KC - Outdoor Sculpture Collection at NOMA)

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Repairing and touching up 3D prints of Least Terns (focusing on the Interior population) and Piping Plovers for a visiting artist gig next week. More repairs are needed on the Plover, but getting closer to gating and investing for lost wax/PLA casting.

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Every account of higher ed's troubles presents states' funding cuts as simply a fact of life: autonomous, inevitable, a regular feature of the landscape like, say, demographics. But those cuts are the product of choices. They are (failed) policy decisions, and yet every year we see them again (1/2)

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