08 April 2025

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 8 August 2024

Shelter on 18th Street, near York. Removed by the city a few days later. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 12 September 2024.

With near constant “sweeps” of tents, more unhoused sleep rough with a minimum number of belongings. Alameda and Potrero. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 02 November 2025

Psych emergency room. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2001

“Safety cell”, San Francisco County Jail. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1996

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The Reads

WE WILL NO LONGER WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY ON ANYTHING, SINCE NOTHING IS REAL | TALIA ARGONDEZZI/McSweeney’s

That's Bait - Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power | Jeff Sharlet/Scenes from a Slow Civil War

RFK Jr.’s 18th-Century Idea About Mental Health | Shayla Love/The Atlantic

Raymond Chandler's Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo  | Flashbak

Podcasts

“I am not Bruce Gilden” Anders Petersen: Everyday People | Right Eye Dominant

Denmark's Food Revolution? | The Food Programme

COUPONS FOR CLOTHES: A WARTIME IDEA MADE NEW? EPISODE #58 | Haptic&Hue

Photography/Art/Culture

In this sometimes hard-to-watch documentary, photographer Joel Meyerowitz and writer Maggie Barrett’s fraught relationship is there for all to see | Wendy Ide/Observer

Roger Schall - Gifted Gallery

White Fence | Tom Zimberoff

How Have Photographs Shaped Our Idea of Work? | Ben Sloat/Aperture

AMERICAN JOB: 1940-2011 | INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Autumn Johnstone/Musée

Andrew Borowiec Photographs

This week we published IKEA's plans for a two-kilometre-long store | Tom Ravenscroft/dezeen

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01 April 2025

Dying flower. 30 March 2025. Photo: Robert Gumpert

12 March 2025: Wall on the corner of 9th and McLea Ct. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert

16 March 2025: Wooden fence on Varney Pl in SOMA. San Francisco, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert

29 March 2025: Small poster on a telephone pole outside the Tesla dealership on Van Ness. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert

03 April 2019: Graffiti on Westbourne Grove near Chepstow Rd the London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert

The Reads

How Kerala got rich | Tirthankar Roy/Aeon

DOGE-INSPIRED SPRING CLEANING | GINNY HOGAN and DANIEL SPIRO/McSweeney's

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack | Krebs on Security

‘You’re His Property’: How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm | Steph QuinnMukta Joshi and Jerry Mitchell/NYT

Cosmologists intrigued by signs the universe might stop expanding | Joel Achenbach/Washington Post

Photography/Art

CHAOS CALME: Paolo Pellegrin - Exposition du 27 mars au 18 juin 2025 - Vernissage mercredi 26 mars à partir de 18h

BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPH: RESEARCHING LONG-TERM PROJECTS WITH SANDY SUGAWARA AND CATIANA GARCÍA-KILROY | Jeanine Michna-Bales/Lenscratch

Movie Poster Designer Kenny Gravillis Aims to Leave You Asking Questions | Charlotte Beach/Print

Ten art deco structures that encapsulate the 1925 Paris Exposition | Lizzie Crook/dezeen

10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April | Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic

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