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Carolina A. Miranda
@cmonstah.bsky.social
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"Elegante y muy cabrona."

I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.

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Wayfinding signage for the Guerrilla Girls show at the Getty is A+
A gorilla hand with painted finger nails points the way on a sign that reads “Exhibition continues.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Manel alert.
A panel for LACMA advertises a conversation with four "visionaries" who are all men: Jeff Koons, Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation, artist Mark Bradford and architect Peter Zumthor.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
👀
An email exchange between Andres Serrano and Jeffrey Epstein in which Serrano expresses annoyance over outrage related to Trump’s “grab ‘em by the p*ssy” remark
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
In my Epstein random searches last night, turned up this doc which presents a plan to bury his conviction in web searches, but Wikipedia presents a challenge since it’s usually the first item in search.
A three page memo for a company called Reputation.com explains how certain stories can be buried in web searches — but Wikipedia oresents a challenge. A three page memo for a company called Reputation.com explains how certain stories can be buried in web searches — but Wikipedia oresents a challenge. A three page memo for a company called Reputation.com explains how certain stories can be buried in web searches — but Wikipedia oresents a challenge.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Just plugging random art world names like Gagosian into Epstein emails search.

Question: wondering if the ref to “the Black kids” are Leon Blacks kids?

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A screen features text describing the acquisition of a Picasso from Gagosian by what appears to be a holding company.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes simple materials — paper, graphite, a little paint — feel magical in her solo show at the ICA LA, where she deftly fuses organic forms and the body.

I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
email.kcrw.com/sandra-vasqu...
An accordion paper drawing in a gallery shows a colorful profile of a woman rendered in green, another body on top of her. Her body comes to resemble the outline of a mountain.
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Plus, the obligatory photo with his car:
A vintage black and white photo from the 1940s shows a man in uniform with one food on the fender of al old Chevy. Written at the bottom is the name "Ricardo."
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
For Veterans Day, here's my uncle doing what our President didn't do: serving his country years before he became a US citizen. Camp Hood, Texas, 1940s.
Two soldiers play around in a vintage image: one pretends to aim a rifle and bayonet at the other, who holds his hands up in the air in mock surrender.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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She is a love!
A grey pibtull with extravagant ears eyes the itty bitty leftover corner of a breakfast burrito.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜
A grey pitbull uses her generous tongue to slurp a ramen noodle A pitbull makes a funny wide eyed face as she inhales a noodle The very same pitbull stares admiringly at the noodle she is inhaling As the noodle comes to an end, the pitbull’s remarkable tongue extends to catch the last of it
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I love — loooove — the Davóne Tines/Julie Dash video in “MONUMENTS,” but the bench situation is dire.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Reading in @sfstandard.com that SF's Vallaincourt Fountain will be taken down. A bummer that SF let this weird piece of landscape design wither. I love that it looked like a collapsed freeway. (A freeway used to run next to it).

Here are pix I got with water in 2022:
sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/v...
A view of SF's Vallaincourt Fountain show a pile of geometric concrete shapes appear as if they are collapsing into a pool of water Seen from the side, the fountain looks like a bunch of robotic arms reaching into a pool of water. A view from within Vallaincourt Fountain, showing a tangle of geometric concrete forms that spill water into a pool below. Another view of jagged concerte forms spilling water water into a pool.
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
It is the birthday of the great Martín Chambi, the Quechua photographer who trained his lens on Andean Indigenous life.

www.moma.org/artists/1063...
In a black and white photograph from 1928, Martín Chambí, an Indigenous man in a dapper suit, is seen in profile holding up a photographic image.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Dammmmm. These numbers.

From the @latimes.com:
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
In a time of wild disinformatin, the artist Tavares Strachan establishes his own systems of knowledge in a staggering solo show at LACMA.

@leighann3000.bsky.social went all in for @kcrw.com:
email.kcrw.com/tavares-stra...
A giant encyclopedia-like book rests on a stand in a gallery where the walls are papered in pages that resemble encyclopedia entries.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
"The old sculpture, like White supremacy, is gone and still here: broken, mixed-up, monstrous, lurching blindly forward. The work unearths the ravages of the past and the present, while aggressively asserting there will be no going back."

Sharon Mizota on "MONUMENTS"
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A color photograph shows a bronze sculpture by Kara Walker made out of pieces of a Confederate monument.
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
So I have a problem with my HP printer and the website tells me to download the HP app so that I can diagnose the problem and this is what it tells me:
A digital error message reads: Check the Printer. There is a problem with your printer.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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When I’m sick my dog likes to sit there and judge me.
A grey pitbull looks judgy while looking at me from across the room.
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Meanwhile, as a break from political debacle, may I recommend shock rock debacle? @mattstromberg.bsky.social hung out with GWAR on the occasion of their first gallery show in LA for @kcrw.com's Art Insider and his story contains phrases like "Codpiece of Cthulu."

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The musician known as Blöthar of GWAR strikes a pose in a rather demonic looking costume with horns on his head and udders on his belly before a wall covered in GWAR ephemera.
October 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
On an unrelated note, whenever I'm in Santiago, love to admire the old Hotel Crillón, where the novelist María Carolina Geel shot and killed her husband in 1955 while having tea.
A color photograph shows an elegant, four-story Beaux Arts building on a street corner on a busy Santiago afternoon.
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Somewhere in South America someone is making your digital memes a three dimensional reality.
Two small plastic sculptures on a shelf show the characters from the Buff Doge and Cheems meme, which shows a buff Shiba Inu standing on two feet like a person, next to a chubby Shiba Inu seated like a dog.
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Me standing on some terrific floors.

Palacio Cousiño, Santiago, Chile.
A pair of worn grey sneakers are seen on an elaborate tile floor featuring yellow and blues squares with mythical looking animals and yellow circles containing patterns of plants and birds. A tile floor features old school mermaids (the ones with a split tail) and other mythical beings. At the entrance to the Palacio is a tile floor bearing a pattern of floral-ish squares in earthy shades like yellow, brown and light green.
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Everything is hell but check out this pan con chicharrón I ate at the airport in Lima.
A well stuffed sandwiched features grilled pork belly, slices of sweet potato and pickled onion.
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
cmonstah.bsky.social
Got to spend time with the inimitable Lauren Halsey for Family Style:

“Funk is like, Fuck it! I’m going to do it anyway. I’m going to transcend. I’ll do it no matter what.”

www.family.style/art/lauren-h...
A photo portrait by Max Hemphill shows a young Black woman in profile wearing a durag and a camo baseball cap.
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
cmonstah.bsky.social
My night blooming cereus is about to flower and I am beyond excited:
A white bloom begins to unfold from a cactus standing before a pink wall.
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM