Nina Horisaki-Christens
@ninahorisakichr.bsky.social
Art Historian (Lecturer, UCLA), Curator, Writer, Translator, and sometimes artist (she/her)
5年も遅れてるとは分かりますが、「ハケンの品格2」のこのセリフは一体何なんですか？「桜を見る会」ネタの次は「日本沈没」？そのために主人公がずっとあの本を持っていたのですか？
November 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
5年も遅れてるとは分かりますが、「ハケンの品格2」のこのセリフは一体何なんですか？「桜を見る会」ネタの次は「日本沈没」？そのために主人公がずっとあの本を持っていたのですか？
OMG the inability of people to think beyond binaries. You can happen to agree on a particular issue for dramatically different reasons. That doesn't mean you are allies, but just that your opinions align for a brief moment. You can't understand politics if you assume there are only 2 camps. *
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
OMG the inability of people to think beyond binaries. You can happen to agree on a particular issue for dramatically different reasons. That doesn't mean you are allies, but just that your opinions align for a brief moment. You can't understand politics if you assume there are only 2 camps. *
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Pepperdine University, a private Christian college in Malibu, closed an exhibition ahead of schedule following withdrawal requests from at least 12 artists after the school removed or altered art it considered “political.”
California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art
Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.
hyperallergic.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Pepperdine University, a private Christian college in Malibu, closed an exhibition ahead of schedule following withdrawal requests from at least 12 artists after the school removed or altered art it considered “political.”
My partner signed us up for alerts from 在ロサンゼルス日本国総領事館 when we moved to LA, and the funny thing is, I learn more about what emergencies are happening in the region from those emails than from any City of LA or California State alert systems.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
My partner signed us up for alerts from 在ロサンゼルス日本国総領事館 when we moved to LA, and the funny thing is, I learn more about what emergencies are happening in the region from those emails than from any City of LA or California State alert systems.
I really can't believe it's been 20 years. I still remember the shock of the TV images of water pouring into the city.
I learned so much from this disaster about the corruption of various levels of government and the economic/insurance systems that have, predictably, led us into a darker future.
I learned so much from this disaster about the corruption of various levels of government and the economic/insurance systems that have, predictably, led us into a darker future.
August 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I really can't believe it's been 20 years. I still remember the shock of the TV images of water pouring into the city.
I learned so much from this disaster about the corruption of various levels of government and the economic/insurance systems that have, predictably, led us into a darker future.
I learned so much from this disaster about the corruption of various levels of government and the economic/insurance systems that have, predictably, led us into a darker future.
Honestly, I can't help but read the ongoing hostile stance of the university toward student workers—their refusal to bargain in good faith since the Obama era, and their apparent current intention to cut most grad student preceptorships—as directly related to their acquiescence to GOP bullying.
The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means
knightcolumbia.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Honestly, I can't help but read the ongoing hostile stance of the university toward student workers—their refusal to bargain in good faith since the Obama era, and their apparent current intention to cut most grad student preceptorships—as directly related to their acquiescence to GOP bullying.
Summer News I:
Technically spring news, but my "Between Galapagos and Archipelagos: Institutional Tensions in Japanese Contemporary Art," came out in "Verge: Studies in Global Asias" in March!
dx.doi.org/10.1353/vrg.....
Technically spring news, but my "Between Galapagos and Archipelagos: Institutional Tensions in Japanese Contemporary Art," came out in "Verge: Studies in Global Asias" in March!
dx.doi.org/10.1353/vrg.....
Project MUSE - Between Galapagos and Archipelagos: Institutional Tensions in Japanese Contemporary Art
dx.doi.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Summer News I:
Technically spring news, but my "Between Galapagos and Archipelagos: Institutional Tensions in Japanese Contemporary Art," came out in "Verge: Studies in Global Asias" in March!
dx.doi.org/10.1353/vrg.....
Technically spring news, but my "Between Galapagos and Archipelagos: Institutional Tensions in Japanese Contemporary Art," came out in "Verge: Studies in Global Asias" in March!
dx.doi.org/10.1353/vrg.....
Every class I teach, I ask students what they get out of it. The answers I've received include "learning to observe and describe more accurately so I can be a better nurse," "learning how unequal access to certain archives shapes histories," and "understanding how to make a compelling case."
“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Every class I teach, I ask students what they get out of it. The answers I've received include "learning to observe and describe more accurately so I can be a better nurse," "learning how unequal access to certain archives shapes histories," and "understanding how to make a compelling case."
The past six months are essentially as if venture capitalists swooped down and sold off anything of value that remained in the US. Just as all those healthy businesses were bankrupted by venture capital firms, the US is being pushed into a grand unnecessary depression that it may never recover from.
July 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The past six months are essentially as if venture capitalists swooped down and sold off anything of value that remained in the US. Just as all those healthy businesses were bankrupted by venture capital firms, the US is being pushed into a grand unnecessary depression that it may never recover from.
Bait and switch is the tactic of a warmongering coward. If he was serious about protecting the US, he would have used his two-week self-imposed limit to work on negotiations. But he's never legitimately negotiated a thing in his life. Bullied, yes, but not negotiated. So we get the bully's solution.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Bait and switch is the tactic of a warmongering coward. If he was serious about protecting the US, he would have used his two-week self-imposed limit to work on negotiations. But he's never legitimately negotiated a thing in his life. Bullied, yes, but not negotiated. So we get the bully's solution.
Reposted by Nina Horisaki-Christens
Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
With a handful of exceptions that usually still don't cover the full cost of labor, artists don't get paid for their time preparing for museum exhibitions. If anything gets covered, it's usually just production costs.
With a handful of exceptions that usually still don't cover the full cost of labor, artists don't get paid for their time preparing for museum exhibitions. If anything gets covered, it's usually just production costs.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.
Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
It is good and proper in a well-kept library to dispose of books.
June 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
With a handful of exceptions that usually still don't cover the full cost of labor, artists don't get paid for their time preparing for museum exhibitions. If anything gets covered, it's usually just production costs.
With a handful of exceptions that usually still don't cover the full cost of labor, artists don't get paid for their time preparing for museum exhibitions. If anything gets covered, it's usually just production costs.
I figured there'd be some Stephen Miller callouts at No Kings Santa Monica and I was not disappointed.
Guy next to me said his kid disliked Miller in high school. One sign said Santa Monica High rescinds Miller's affiliation. The sign shown here was the only one I managed to remember to photograph.
Guy next to me said his kid disliked Miller in high school. One sign said Santa Monica High rescinds Miller's affiliation. The sign shown here was the only one I managed to remember to photograph.
June 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I figured there'd be some Stephen Miller callouts at No Kings Santa Monica and I was not disappointed.
Guy next to me said his kid disliked Miller in high school. One sign said Santa Monica High rescinds Miller's affiliation. The sign shown here was the only one I managed to remember to photograph.
Guy next to me said his kid disliked Miller in high school. One sign said Santa Monica High rescinds Miller's affiliation. The sign shown here was the only one I managed to remember to photograph.
The downside of living near a theater: when they have a violently loud performance that includes going out of the building and banging and cursing from outside, you get to hear it on repeat several nights a week for weeks on end.
June 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The downside of living near a theater: when they have a violently loud performance that includes going out of the building and banging and cursing from outside, you get to hear it on repeat several nights a week for weeks on end.
After listening to a Japanese news analysis on the Nippon Steel deal (which seems a pretty bad deal for Nippon Steel), I decided to see what the English language press was saying and it seems like it's all spin and very little discussion of the actual deal? What is this mess of a news cycle?
June 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
After listening to a Japanese news analysis on the Nippon Steel deal (which seems a pretty bad deal for Nippon Steel), I decided to see what the English language press was saying and it seems like it's all spin and very little discussion of the actual deal? What is this mess of a news cycle?
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proposing Elon Musk as the savior of the subways, creating (then abandoning) a fake "women's equality" party, using the IDC to keep republicans in charge of the state for years, and more greatest hits from the guy who "can get stuff done" nygroove.nyc/a-list-of-50...
A list of 50 things Andrew Cuomo has ‘gotten done’
The disgraced former governor loves to tout his long record in public life — so let's actually take a look at it
nygroove.nyc
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
proposing Elon Musk as the savior of the subways, creating (then abandoning) a fake "women's equality" party, using the IDC to keep republicans in charge of the state for years, and more greatest hits from the guy who "can get stuff done" nygroove.nyc/a-list-of-50...
Screening in LA! "Asia is One" Directed by Nihon Documentarist Union, Japan, 1973, 16mm transferred to digital format, 96 minutes
Fri June 6 2025, 6:30 pm
Dodd 147, UCLA, Open to the Public
In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu
Fri June 6 2025, 6:30 pm
Dodd 147, UCLA, Open to the Public
In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu
May 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Screening in LA! "Asia is One" Directed by Nihon Documentarist Union, Japan, 1973, 16mm transferred to digital format, 96 minutes
Fri June 6 2025, 6:30 pm
Dodd 147, UCLA, Open to the Public
In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu
Fri June 6 2025, 6:30 pm
Dodd 147, UCLA, Open to the Public
In Japanese, Chinese, and Atayal with English Subtitles by Keung Yoon Bae, Kimberley Sanders, and Mayako Liu
Reposted by Nina Horisaki-Christens
Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
Statement by ISP Associate Director Regarding the Whitney’s Cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance” and the ISP Cohort’s Response | Cabinet
www.cabinetmagazine.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
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When speaking of the Whitney Independent Study Program, the former Whitney director Adam Weinberg emphasized the “independent” part. Now under new management, the ISP is being so surveilled by museum staff that the curatorial and critical cohorts are cancelling their end-of-year events in protest.
May 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
When speaking of the Whitney Independent Study Program, the former Whitney director Adam Weinberg emphasized the “independent” part. Now under new management, the ISP is being so surveilled by museum staff that the curatorial and critical cohorts are cancelling their end-of-year events in protest.
This has got to be the funniest product photo I've seen yet: kids 12-color painting set supposedly being used to create a thick impressionist-style en plein air landscape.
April 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This has got to be the funniest product photo I've seen yet: kids 12-color painting set supposedly being used to create a thick impressionist-style en plein air landscape.
Reading a bedtime story, and the supervillian in one section turns out to be Elan Mollusk. Fitting.
March 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Reading a bedtime story, and the supervillian in one section turns out to be Elan Mollusk. Fitting.
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Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
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Professor friends: Everyone should read this. Also, we must understand the importance of us collectively resisting anything and everything that is unjust. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Professor friends: Everyone should read this. Also, we must understand the importance of us collectively resisting anything and everything that is unjust. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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academeblog.org/2025/03/20/a.... Extremely important statement by Constitutional law scholars. Please share if you can.
A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books and is reposted here with their permission. The statement’s signatories incl…
academeblog.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
academeblog.org/2025/03/20/a.... Extremely important statement by Constitutional law scholars. Please share if you can.