America was supposed to be Art Deco. Here's how an age of optimism sparked a golden age of design. And why it's coming back... (thread) 🧵

Manhattan in the 1930s was an architectural wonderland, marked by the rise of iconic skyscrapers like the Empire State Building, symbolizing the era's blend of Art Deco elegance and industrial might.

“I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” — Nina Simone

© Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922 - 1993)

WANDA WULZ, Untitled, 1932.

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Martin Scorsese.

Portrait of American dancer, model, and silent film actress Olive Ann Alcorn. Photographed in 1925.

Talking about the loathsome piece of shit and Elon Musk, this is one of the most powerful, on point speeches I've ever hear from AOC — who just keeps getting better and better at this. 🎯🎯🎯👇

Hiroshi Ohchi.

David Lynch photographed by Jeff Burton, 2010.

Gail Brodholt, London Calling, 2023 UK printmaker #WomensArt

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper Is in Danger. Where’s the Uproar? The upcoming auction of Price Tower has provoked the ire of FLW fans and preservationists, but it hasn’t caused a social media storm • dwell.com/article/frank-…

Hard to overstate what a sinister figure Elon Musk is. Never seen one oligarch in a western democracy intervene on anything like this scale with unending Goebbels-grade lies.

I’m thinking about my dad a lot tonight. His broken idealist heart. How he saw the whole universe in each individual he met. I think about this often. He meant every word about how we, as a species had wasted our potential. 1/2

I think all we can do at this point is to bring kindness and wonder to every moment. Anything else is delusional and arrogant. It’s all so confusing. What are we to make of all that we’ve done as a species and yet we still can’t elevate ourselves past our greed and fear. 2/2

abandoning watever this app has become. you can still find FLOMM ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀᴛᴛʟᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀɴ 1923 on threads, instagram, &c. + the ugly ‘X’ used totally sux too. there are a few hundred years of beautiful typography he could have picked from, but i know, it’s beyond his level of taste. —steve mehallo