“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here:
4columns.org/d-souza-arun...
"In one way or another, everyone in Chicago’s art world has a connection to HPAC. Chicago’s art identity is a conversation, self-reflective and always evolving."
Abstract Expressionist Elaine de Kooning was #BOTD in 1918. Happy belated #Caturday and #PetAppreciationDay!
You can look at all of the murals in Evanston here. (There are A LOT of them.)
www.artencounter.org/about-murals
A partially unraveled Confederate flag at left, and three skeins of yarn - red, white, blue - on a shelf at right
Sonya Clark, "Unraveling" and "Unraveled," 2015 #ConfederateSurrenderDay
Related: Alma Thomas, Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, 1970
Quoted post has actor as Rodin sculpting caked-up male nude.
Film is about Rodin's apprentice, muse, lover, then artistic rival, Camille Claudel. He was horrible to her.
And her brother and mom had her institutionalized for 30 years despite everyone saying she was fine. They wanted her property.
The Moon has an incredible track record of being *awesome* at moments when things on Earth—especially in the United States—are totally fucked 🌖
I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵
"I sometimes question what art can do while the state wages war against our bodies. It’s a very hard time to be a human . . . No, you can’t eat a painting. But you also can’t live without art."
@prisonculture.bsky.social in conversation with Vic Liu: prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-wareho...
Ugh, so sorry!!
Poster with text, "The American Scream," and image of Edvard Munch's The Scream with American flag above bearing the legends, "Civilians killed," "Needless war," and "Tanking Economy"
A friend asked me to make her a placard for the #NoKings march today, and gave me specific directions re: imagery and phrasing. How did I do?
If you're in NYC on Friday, come check out the Columbia Symposium, "Unsettled in Dakar" Architectural Modernity in 20th-Century Dakar." I'll be presenting with a host of others. The event is in-person only (and I don't know if it will be recorded).
buellcenter.columbia.edu/programming/...
Today is primary day in Illinois! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these Illinois politics reporters and elections experts for the very latest
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Good morning! It’s everyone’s favorite day (where I take my Outfits of the Day that I post on Instagram & turn them into a reel & then hypnotize myself with it by playing it over & over)!
#MJMfashionGuide
oil painting portrait of young white man seated. He holds a medal in one hand and gestures to an exterior scene behind him that is on fire
common meme of seated dog in hat at table surrounded by flames. Word bubble reads "this is fine."
Renaissance precedent for this is fine.
Alessandro Allori, Portrait of Young Man. Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 117 x 87.5cm. St. Petersburg, The Hermitage.
"Lovely Day" by Bill Withers
#BlackSky 🌱
youtu.be/bEeaS6fuUoA?...
Opening tomorrow in Ghent: Unforgettable, a major exhibition at the MSK on women artists of the 17th-century Low Countries. More than 150 works reveal how painters, sculptors and lace-makers helped shape the Golden Age - even if art history later forgot them.
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out, focused on the closing of humanities depts. & museums. @otavano.bsky.social discusses the U. of Ottawa, @mokersel.bsky.social on the DePaul Art Museum, @meirazk.bsky.social & @vox-magica.bsky.social on shuttering religious studies depts, & Justin Vorhis on U. Iowa.
I'm grateful to Isa Farfan @isafarfan.bsky.social for her great @hyperallergic.com article covering community backlash against closing the DePaul Art Museum. You can still sign our petition here: openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
Handcolored image of Christ on a mountain having none of the devil's tempting.
Not Today Satan
"Alison Knowles stands out as the sole female artist among the founders of Fluxus, yet she has remained an enigmatic, underrecognized figure in the history of art. Performing Chance fills a gap in the record, bringing to 💡Knowles’s transformative body of work," from 🎨 to performance to poetry...
