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Posts by Michael Lobel

Drawing of a family changing the tire of a broken down 1930s era automobile

Drawing of a family changing the tire of a broken down 1930s era automobile

The drawings in the show are simple and spare and quite lovely

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Upper left looks like a figurine of a Hasidic Yankees fan..?

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Painting of a painter creating a painting of figures moving furniture on a car roof

Painting of a painter creating a painting of figures moving furniture on a car roof

Benny Andrews, "Self-Portrait Doing the Migrant Series," 2004

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Painting of a family looking on as a man changes the tire/wheel of their 1930s-era automobile, in an unmarked landscape

Painting of a family looking on as a man changes the tire/wheel of their 1930s-era automobile, in an unmarked landscape

Benny Andrews, "Desert Flat," from the Migrant Series: Dust Bowl, 2004

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Painting of a farmstead with a military figure on horseback overlooking a family moving away in a covered wagon

Painting of a farmstead with a military figure on horseback overlooking a family moving away in a covered wagon

Some tremendous paintings from Benny Andrews's "Migrant" series, the artist's last major body of work before his death in 2006, at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea michaelrosenfeld.com/exhibitions/...

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Pull up the current occupant's horrid stone patio & recreate the White House Rose Garden (and rebuild the East Wing while we're at it)

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Painting of a tabletop with elements including a pipe, a bottle, a candle, a postcard, a book, and a plate of onions

Painting of a tabletop with elements including a pipe, a bottle, a candle, a postcard, a book, and a plate of onions

Vincent van Gogh, Still Life with Plate of Onions, 1889 krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...

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Laurie Metcalf

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Gilbert & George, Reclining Drunk, 1973 www.moma.org/collection/w...

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I went through a period where I got all up in arms about how many of my followers seemed to be fake accounts, and then I realized there wasn't much I could do about it so now I'm just like🤷‍♂️

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a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ? ALT: a stuffed white cat is sitting on top of a box and asking why ?
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Balsamic Childfree

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Suitcase-like artwork with a book, pages, and various vials

Suitcase-like artwork with a book, pages, and various vials

Or, like the artist John Latham, you could turn it into a work of art, as when he had a group of his students chew the pages of Clement Greenberg's "Art & Culture" and then incorporated the masticated remnants into an artwork, now in MoMA's collection: www.moma.org/collection/w...

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Image of a fashion model, looking upward, with the photo cut out into a silhouette of George Washington

Image of a fashion model, looking upward, with the photo cut out into a silhouette of George Washington

Happy birthday to artist Sherrie Levine, born #OnThisDay in 1947 (President Collage #6, 1979)

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Invitation to Robert Colescott show at Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR

Invitation to Robert Colescott show at Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR

I interviewed her years ago when I thought I might write a Colescott book (still undecided on that..!). Here's an invitation to a 1969 Colescott show at Arlene's Fountain Gallery in Portland oregonvisualarts.org/robert-coles...

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A painted riff on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the people, with some of the figures replaced by Black caricatural figures

A painted riff on Delacroix's Liberty Leading the people, with some of the figures replaced by Black caricatural figures

While it seems to have gone unidentified in the article, that first photo shows him standing next to a Robert Colescott riff on Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People," a painting previously owned by Jordan's mother Arlene, who gave Colescott some of his earliest gallery representation

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Elaborate line drawing of a seated figure writing on a scroll held by youths or cupid figures

Elaborate line drawing of a seated figure writing on a scroll held by youths or cupid figures

Another elaborate line drawing from Pisani's 1640 Tratteggiato da Penna ("Drawn by Pen") www.philamuseum.org/objects/224790

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Elaborate line drawing of Saint George on horseback slaying a dragon

Elaborate line drawing of Saint George on horseback slaying a dragon

Francesco Pisani, Saint George & the Dragon, 1640, from his drawing manual Tratteggiato da Penna ("Drawn by Pen") www.philamuseum.org/objects/224784

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A picture of a mid-20th-century cocktail lounge, with abundant detail, including a pay phone, pin-up girls, furniture, and a jukebox

A picture of a mid-20th-century cocktail lounge, with abundant detail, including a pay phone, pin-up girls, furniture, and a jukebox

Perkins Harnly, Cocktail Lounge, 1946. Harnly always included abundant detail in his pictures; here, the Wurlitzer jukebox displays selections by two iconic crooners only—Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra www.nga.gov/artworks/198...

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A small monkey in a shearling coat looking through a glass door, looking somewhat forlorn (although that may be a projection, I'm not sure)

A small monkey in a shearling coat looking through a glass door, looking somewhat forlorn (although that may be a projection, I'm not sure)

today's mood

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East Village Radio (EVR) East Village Radio (EVR) Internet radio station

First Light with Man starts now on East Village Radio. Tune in for two hours of intergenerational Classical Indian, Ambient, New Age, and Spiritual Jazz bliss eastvillageradio.com/first-light-...

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"She thinks she's queen shit of turd island."

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An abstract painting, rendered as a vertical composition, comprised largely of small vertical red strokes over a background of different blues

An abstract painting, rendered as a vertical composition, comprised largely of small vertical red strokes over a background of different blues

Alma Thomas, "Mars Dust," 1972 whitney.org/collection/w...

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Artist Talk: Guerrilla Girls
Artist Talk: Guerrilla Girls YouTube video by Neuberger Museum of Art

This evening, 6-7pm: the Neuberger Museum hosts a talk by the Guerrilla Girls, which will be livestreamed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwkM...

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Black and white target shape on a page, with "Target 1970" below it, signed Jasper Johns and (with a blank), and red, yellow & blue watercolors and a brush

Black and white target shape on a page, with "Target 1970" below it, signed Jasper Johns and (with a blank), and red, yellow & blue watercolors and a brush

Jasper Johns, Target, 1970

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Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865).

In his series "I Got Up," the artist On Kawara sent postcards to friends or colleagues every day for nearly 12 years, following the same format down to placement of text

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Andy Warhol’s Religious Journey When the artist was shot point-blank at the Factory, in 1968, it was a turning point in his life.

More about the meeting, and religion in Warhol's life & art: www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

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Photo with crowd and in foreground, Pope John Paul II and Andy Warhol

Photo with crowd and in foreground, Pope John Paul II and Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol meeting Pope John Paul II, April 1980

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