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May 2025
I Know Why the Caged Book Sings is a grassroots project dedicated to reclaiming banned books and returning them to our communities.
The current administration is working to erase freedom of speech, the press, and assembly, especially through the implementation of book bans. This project aims to restore these First Amendment rights by stocking local free libraries with titles targeted for their themes of identity, including race, gender, sexuality, and power—because free minds need free access.
Starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’ve stocked local free libraries in our neighborhood with curated titles of books whose themes are more relevant now than ever—we invite you to take action towards collective change and connection by doing the same in your own community.
Join this quiet literary resistance. Visit the website to learn how you can get started in your own community:
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April 2020
Spontaneous shelter-in-place sculptures inspired by The Getty Museum’s challenge to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. Courtesy of John Poole, Sadie Poole, Jenny Rosen, Hannah Rosen, and Rose Tai.
Donald Judd, Untitled (1971)
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970)
Samuel Yates, Minuet in MG (2001)
Lynda Benglis, Quartered Meteor (1969)
Richard Serra, Titled Arc (1981)
Arman, Peacock Tail (1981)
Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973-76)
Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror (2014)
Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen I (1967)
Martin Puryear, Ladder for Booker T. Washington (1996)
Ana Mendieta, Untitled- Silueta Series, Mexico (1976)
Sol LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cube 9/11 (1974)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence (1976)
Barbara Hepworth, Curved Form (Delphi), (1955)
Rebecca Warren, Croccioni (2000)
Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather (1993)
Orsolya Drozdik, Manufacturing the Self. Brains on High Heels (1993)
Constantin Brancusi, La Colonne sans fin III (avant 1928)
Deborah Butterfield
Richard Shaw, Past Habits (2010)
Katharina Fritsch, Madonnenfigur (Madonna), (1982)
Nancy Graves, Camels, (1969 ish)
David Ireland, Angel-Go-Round (1996)
David Ireland’s Angel-Go-Round, located at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA
Barbie-Go-Round, 2020