How not to display art, by Michael Govan

LACMA members’ opening day, ready to drink pure haterade

well, well, well, if it isn't my archnemesis: word limits.

No longer do you need to wonder “where exactly was the Great Molasses Flood?” one of my fave Boston maps from @awoodruff.bsky.social

Not as prominent or well designed as actual architects or designers, but aspirational frames nonetheless

The glasses are the tell!

Agnes Martin’s list of every job she ever had masoncurrey.substack.com/p/agnes-mart...

Community! Semicolon!

A sculptural installation on a ceiling which is lighted to cast shadows and imply a lunar landscape.

A large column leading up to a sculptural relief in the ceiling, standing over a U-Haul customer service desk.

A sculptural installation on a ceiling which is lighted to cast shadows and imply a lunar landscape.

A historic photo of the same ceiling installation, crowning a midcentury modern office space.

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

Intricate Sullivanesque relief carved into terra cotta.

Intricate Sullivanesque reliefs carved into terra cotta.

Intricate Sullivanesque relief carved into terra cotta.

Intricate Sullivanesque relief carved into terra cotta.

Up close and personal with the Sullivanesque ornament is where this building really comes to life. Sat there marveling for quite a while.

Tall, boxy high-rise clad in terra cotta with an ornate cornice.

Doorways that read “Wainwright State Office Building” framed by a surround featuring Sullivanesque motifs.

Closeup of the decorative cornice and spandrels featuring intricate Sullivanesque motifs.

The iconic Wainwright Building (1891) by Adler & Sullivan.

Pink panel with a questionnaire on it, including Life is great, things are really looking up, etc.

Cary Leibowitz/Candyass, "Please Check One," 1999

Today, Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer” opens at the High Museum in Atlanta. Words cannot convey how much this project has meant to me and how much it has exploded everything I thought I knew about sculpture. Grateful to my co-curator Monica Obniski and everyone involved with the exhibition

Rodney Graham
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong, 1969 2006

(Extract)

Like whatever to the rest but I absolutely need to see the source files that got us to these four lions

Honestly would read 6000 words about these copy and paste Patience and Fortitude style lions alone

👨‍💻 From "Passers By" Stephen Hansen paper mache 2011

Phenomenal airport sculpture detail 10/10

Aight, nerds, we're wearing crop tops this spring and writing books!!!

on the bright side, I am a lot less worried about using a nonstick pan to cook my eggs today

Maybe the press will fast track the peer review of my nuclear fear book because… like… guys… GUYS 💥🍄☁️📖

Please, just let a bitch be in awe of the universe and explore her emotional depths.

Announcement in blue text on black background for a talk taking place April 8, 2026 @ 6:00pm, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, RCVA 2008 Announcement includes an image of Tavares Strachan’s You Belong Here

For anyone in Kalamazoo this Wednesday…

Charisse Pearlina Weston, un- (anterior ellipse[s] as mangled container; or where edges meet to wedge and [un]moor) (2024), laminated tempered glass sheets from the air, whiskey, and dust of [a] tomorrow, and stainless-steel hardware

This Charisse Pearlina Weston seems like it would be a great way to go

Serra’s work raises the question: Which work of art would you like to be crushed by?

It is an imperfect world, for one must choose between writing a book that is actually smart, and writing a book whose jacket an architect might read and design a house based upon it.

This color story!!!

Free from the prison of my own prose! (Although some is… startlingly not terrible?)

Maybe this is the secret to not being precious about one’s own writing: never remember writing in the first place.

Finally tackling the revise/resubmit I received last month for an article I submitted in August. Truly have no memory of writing entire paragraphs.

Four walls and a floor plinth covered in 8.5x11" sheets, each featuring an image from the encyclopedia

Eight displays in the center of room and all walls filled with sheets of paper containing images from the RH Encyclopedia

A close up of some o the images, each centered on the page -- we see plants, diagrams, etc.

White boxes with marker-sketched labels identfying their topical contents -- here: Time Chart: Chapter 882...

Matt Mullican's The Universe at Peter Freeman: cataloguing every image in the 1990 Random House Encyclopedia