The Chicago Tribune announced today that the Chicago-based Graham Foundation, aka the We Got Your Money Right Here, So Long As You're Interested In Buildings Foundation, has selected a new director. Shock of all shocks, she's a chick. A broad. A skirt.

Sarah Herda, current (soon former) Storefront for Art and Architecture director and a virtual pre-teen in the world of architecture, will be formally announced Friday as (RIP) Richard Solomon's successor. Which is all very lovely and nice and very excellent for her and she's so young and has made such great strides in such a short time and how did they ever ever find her?

Life being not life and political announcements being not political announcements without the necessary ConflictWatch™, this just in from the July 2003 issue of the always trustworthy Columbia College Today:

Solomon took [JargonWatch™-worthy archispeaky journal] 306090 to New York and incorporated it, bringing on new staff members, including architecture major Emily Abruzzo ’00. Partially funded with grants from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 306090 has a circulation of 2,000.

The first issue was launched with a simultaneous show at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, named "eMeRGenT" as a nod to the journal’s subtitle. A number of subsequent issues also have had a concurrent "eMeRGenT" show, designed as a way for contributors and readers to meet and to see the objects in the journal. The events have given 306090 more exposure and brought new and established designers together.

That would be Solomon, Jonathan. Son of Solomon, Richard.

We're just saying.

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