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Jen Wingate

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Art historian & former prof; material culture & sculpture enthusiast; putting one foot in front of the other https://jenniferwingate.hcommons.org/publications/

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 7d

The pre- pre- pre-release of my next book, coming April 2026. ;)

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 1d

TY!

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Thanks!

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. I have a Times subscription and the app and still can't figure out how to find the articles I want to read!

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 4d

The book is out now. Restall wisely says “These are essentially living objects whose meaning is constantly shifting, and so where they are located and how we talk about them has to also be constantly changing. And that’s not a bad thing," in the NYT today, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/a...

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 5d

It's such a delight to walk around these Larry Bell sculptures in Madison Square Park and to see how they change at every step.

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 7d

The pre- pre- pre-release of my next book, coming April 2026. ;)

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 15d

#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton.

More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.

Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
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Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre

Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates ...

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 16d

Our current apocalypse is entirely driven by the fact that billionaires have convinced people that there’s not enough in the world to sustain us all and so we must fight each other to hoard and survive. In fact, there is more than enough to sustain us—it’s the hoarding that’s the problem.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16d

Citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social says his democratic socialism is about "better distribution of wealth for all of God's children."

"We're in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty."

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 17d

It was fun having the chance to see and hear Pamela Z perform inside Torkwase Dyson's sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park last evening at dusk. @publicartfund.bsky.social #TorkwaseDyson #PamelaZ www.instagram.com/p/DPJhurpjbR...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18d

I'm creating an OpenHouseNY shortlist for out-of-town guests, and I think it's 🤗 — and, I'll admit, touching — that you can see where the Dept of Transport makes its signs, or visit the Dept of Sanitation's waste transfer station + compost facility, or watch new garbage trucks demo big-bin pickup...

DOT Sign Shop: Maspeth Central - Open House New York

Visitors will see how New York City’s street signs are made, from start to finish. Every sign in NYC is made here, at the Maspeth Sign Shop.

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 18d

Katharine Kuharic, Mind's Eye (1998) at Andrew Edlin Gallery "In a dark time, the eye begins to see," curated by Bob Cozzolino

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 19d

Joe Boshynski's "Discoveries in Democracy" is on view in St. Nicholas Park as part of Harlem Sculpture Garden until Halloween.

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 19d

Visited U Penn with my teen earlier this week and saw some stellar campus art by Simone Leigh, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, and Louise Nevelson.

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · 26d

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Art History Professor Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments

Florida Atlantic University suspended art historian Karen Leader over her social media comments about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

news.artnet.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 6

This climate catastrophe coming on the US's independence day is a reminder that we were never independent of nature and never will be, and that there is a terrible cost to undermining its elegant systems...

Prof Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, UCL, said:

“The tragic events in Texas are exactly what we would expect in our hotter, climate-changed, world. There has been an explosion in extreme weather in recent years, including more devastating flash floods caused by slow-moving, wetter, storms, that dump exceptional amounts of rain over small areas across a short time. This frequently overwhelms river catchments leading to severe damage to adjacent infrastructure and loss of life. Such events will only become more commonplace as the global temperature continues to climb, driven by carbon dioxide emissions that still top 40 billion tonnes every year.”

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jul 3

Although I have a soft spot for interactions with public sculpture no matter how silly

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jul 3

I know girl, I know. @onceatrophic.bsky.social (nothing about "knit city" in Bryant park in 1000% humidity is ok)

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jun 14

#nokings Brooklyn, NY

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Brooklyn NY #nokings

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Jun 2

But no one is asking experts, so ... www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Completely Unworkable’: Sculpture Experts Say Trump’s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems

Actual sculptors who’ve seen the specs for Trump’s signature project say it’s in deep trouble.

www.politico.com

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · May 11

Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Apr 18

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Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social · Apr 18

Truth! 😂

Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · Apr 11

What I love about academics during monument hot take seasons is that, otherwise, they mostly never think about public art and certainly mostly never read about public art but that will not stop them from voicing the shoutiest declarative takes on monuments (and teaching the laziest courses on them)

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