Who Signs Off on the Work Now? Verification, Closures, and Live Credibility
From Google’s new image-assessment tool and Harvard’s writing center closure to the L.A. Jazz Festival’s collapse, Ragtime’s record at Lincoln Center Theater, and Gia Kourlas seeing dance in a champion surfer, this roundup traces where trust in culture is won—or lost.
Grace Baldwin Builds a Monumental Junk Drawer of Everyday Memories
Grace Baldwin is constructing a lifelike junk drawer at monumental scale, filling it with hyper-real versions of everyday items and crowdsourced suggestions from social media. She plans to keep adding objects, hopes to find a place to display the work, and is exploring materials beyond her usual woodworking.
Sharbreon Plummers Stories in the Seams charts Black quilting from enslavement to now
Sharbreon Plummers richly illustrated book, Stories in the Seams: A Peoples History of Black Quilts and Their Makers (Chronicle Books), traces Black quilting from its roots in slavery through today, combining archival imagery, historical context, and works by artists including Ruth Clement Bond, the Quilters of Gees Bend, Bisa Butler, Basil Kincaid, and Faith Ringgold. The volume is slated for release on October 6.