Good Morning. ⛅ Today, how Forensic Architecture's first US survey exhibition was censored, Biden rev
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Good Morning. ⛅ Today, how Forensic Architecture’s first US survey exhibition was censored, Biden revokes Trump’s classical architecture executive order, and a jail logbook signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. sells at auction.
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