Chris Balaschak, PhD
@cbalaschak.bsky.social
Prof of Art History
Retired paper boy 🗞️
teaching, researching, writing on photographies, environments, materialities
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Retired paper boy 🗞️
teaching, researching, writing on photographies, environments, materialities
✨🪐🚲 🕊️
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
Always enjoyed walking by Gehry's Santa Monica bungalow when I lived there.
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Always enjoyed walking by Gehry's Santa Monica bungalow when I lived there.
End of semester vibes.
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
End of semester vibes.
Elliot Erwitt, 1988
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Elliot Erwitt, 1988
The email for the American Battle Monuments Commission is info@abmc.gov. Write to them and politely ask for the plaques to be restored. If they hear from enough people, perhaps they will reconsider.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.
Staggering atrocities in Sudan.
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The world continues to ignore Sudan and every day, things get worse. So much suffering met with silence.
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The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04
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Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
Sally Mann, Emmett at Halloween, 1988
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Sally Mann, Emmett at Halloween, 1988
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
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“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny
Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny
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I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I know everyone’s following the Louvre heist but I would like to point your attention to the California LEGO LOOTER
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
"White supremacy, like any monumental thing, did not stand up on its own; it had a structure, an architectonic principle."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"White supremacy, like any monumental thing, did not stand up on its own; it had a structure, an architectonic principle."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/a...
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For this weeks's Art Insider for @kcrw.com, Paula Mejía has a look at piñatas by Roberto Benavidez that are inspired by the creatures of Hieronymus Bosch.
email.kcrw.com/roberto-bena...
email.kcrw.com/roberto-bena...
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For this weeks's Art Insider for @kcrw.com, Paula Mejía has a look at piñatas by Roberto Benavidez that are inspired by the creatures of Hieronymus Bosch.
email.kcrw.com/roberto-bena...
email.kcrw.com/roberto-bena...
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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For Alta Journal, I write about two artists who shaped how we see Yosemite and the history of Japanese American incarceration: painter Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams. 🖼️ The two ran in important circles of Bay Area artists; they were also friends.
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
WWII Split These Yosemite Artists—and Reunited Them
Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams met as artists drawn to the same peaks—but their views of the West soon diverged.
www.altaonline.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For Alta Journal, I write about two artists who shaped how we see Yosemite and the history of Japanese American incarceration: painter Chiura Obata and Ansel Adams. 🖼️ The two ran in important circles of Bay Area artists; they were also friends.
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
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4/5 #41 for 2025
Midlife crisis blues
Midlife crisis blues
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
4/5 #41 for 2025
Midlife crisis blues
Midlife crisis blues