John Vincler
@jvincler.bsky.social
Library Director, POETS HOUSE; Co-Chief Art Critic, CULTURED Magazine
Happy to see a @hystericalblkns.bsky.social cameo in this week’s batch of The Critics’ Table reviews (in Zoë Hopkins‘ review of Torkwase Dyson’s Public Art Fund commission “Akua”)
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
Concrete Poetry, Public Sculpture, and Motel-Room Hypnosis: Our Critics Have Picks in Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge Park for You
Zoë Hopkins's debut for the Critics' Table is a meditation on Torkwase Dyson's new public sculpture, Paige K. Bradley spotlights poet N.H. Pritchard's first solo show, and Johanna Fateman is taken wit...
www.culturedmag.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Happy to see a @hystericalblkns.bsky.social cameo in this week’s batch of The Critics’ Table reviews (in Zoë Hopkins‘ review of Torkwase Dyson’s Public Art Fund commission “Akua”)
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
New Yorkers gave themselves a good day.
June 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
New Yorkers gave themselves a good day.
“a commercial sigh-painter”
(good typo)
(good typo)
May 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“a commercial sigh-painter”
(good typo)
(good typo)
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
entering the smuggling era (artworks on yachts, etc.)
April 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
entering the smuggling era (artworks on yachts, etc.)
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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"This photograph can't now be seen without Jenny Holzer's name being in the same sentence, and I am happy about that. I have looked her up like everyone else and am proud to be associated."
www.georginacook.net/visionofsoun...
www.georginacook.net/visionofsoun...
Stephen Sweet on his iconic photograph of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain — GEORGINA COOK IS HERE.
“Let me explain what I mean and what was arranged. Apart from photographing the gigs during the week of the New Music Seminar, and the shoots that happened through those days, I knew at the close of t...
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March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"This photograph can't now be seen without Jenny Holzer's name being in the same sentence, and I am happy about that. I have looked her up like everyone else and am proud to be associated."
www.georginacook.net/visionofsoun...
www.georginacook.net/visionofsoun...
First time I’ve seen this photo
Also this gives me the opportunity to post one of the greatest photos ever, of Kurt Cobain standing under one of Holzer's text pieces on a Times Square theater marquee in 1993
March 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
First time I’ve seen this photo
In the many comments on this and in the original, I don’t find a single link to the source.
I see a Reddit noting it’s a conversation between Schumer & Bret Stephens but even a direct quote doesn’t easily turn up in a NYT search.
It’s this piece:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
I see a Reddit noting it’s a conversation between Schumer & Bret Stephens but even a direct quote doesn’t easily turn up in a NYT search.
It’s this piece:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
March 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
In the many comments on this and in the original, I don’t find a single link to the source.
I see a Reddit noting it’s a conversation between Schumer & Bret Stephens but even a direct quote doesn’t easily turn up in a NYT search.
It’s this piece:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
I see a Reddit noting it’s a conversation between Schumer & Bret Stephens but even a direct quote doesn’t easily turn up in a NYT search.
It’s this piece:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
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World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
March 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.
Same. Same. (Catastrophe) bsky.app/profile/haha...
March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Same. Same. (Catastrophe) bsky.app/profile/haha...
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DRIFTS in German is blowing up. So much so that there is a 9 minute TV segment asking renowned literary critic Insa Wilke, why are all the young writers of Leipzig obsessed with this book?
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
Insa Wilke zu "Drift" von Kate Zambreno
Kate Zambrenos Buch "Drift" scheint junge Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller besonders zu inspirieren. Wir haben mit Insa Wilke drüber gesprochen.
www.3sat.de
March 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
DRIFTS in German is blowing up. So much so that there is a 9 minute TV segment asking renowned literary critic Insa Wilke, why are all the young writers of Leipzig obsessed with this book?
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
www.3sat.de/kultur/kultu...
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal agency that supports libraries, archives, and museums in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Trump just gutted the funding.
Trump just gutted the funding.
March 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal agency that supports libraries, archives, and museums in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Trump just gutted the funding.
Trump just gutted the funding.
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As the UAW has emphasized, the assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government and Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.
March 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As the UAW has emphasized, the assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government and Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.
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In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.
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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
apnews.com/article/colu...
apnews.com/article/colu...
Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...
apnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
apnews.com/article/colu...
apnews.com/article/colu...
Student union leader expelled on the day @uaw.org was to negotiate with Columbia.
Welcome to the new full blown Red Scare, where universities are the first front, & students the appointed cannon fodder.
From NYT:
Welcome to the new full blown Red Scare, where universities are the first front, & students the appointed cannon fodder.
From NYT:
March 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Student union leader expelled on the day @uaw.org was to negotiate with Columbia.
Welcome to the new full blown Red Scare, where universities are the first front, & students the appointed cannon fodder.
From NYT:
Welcome to the new full blown Red Scare, where universities are the first front, & students the appointed cannon fodder.
From NYT:
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
He honestly should publicly retract or resign
Still can't get over Jelani Cobb, of all people, telling journalism students not to write anything that might upset the Trump administration
March 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
He honestly should publicly retract or resign
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Wouldn't be surprised if Columbia University agreed to change its name to Trump University, with the way things are going.
March 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Wouldn't be surprised if Columbia University agreed to change its name to Trump University, with the way things are going.
Some reporting on today’s Trump Tower protest to free Mahmoud Khalil. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Protesters Back Mahmoud Khalil at Trump Tower: ‘Fight Nazis, Not Students’ (Gift Article)
Demonstrators led by a progressive Jewish group gathered to support Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist whom the Trump administration wants to deport.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Some reporting on today’s Trump Tower protest to free Mahmoud Khalil. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...