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Art Historian. Etc. The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024) now available: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272581/the-world-atlas-of-public-art/

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George Collins Cox’s portrait of Henry Hobson Richardson (1886)

George Collins Cox’s portrait of Henry Hobson Richardson (1886)

Men, what’s preventing you from dressing like this

12.03.2026 19:22 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Photo book plate saying Southwest Missouri State College Library w a vignette of a trio of bound books and a tabletop Venus de Milo looking slightly ‘I know, girl. I know.’

Photo book plate saying Southwest Missouri State College Library w a vignette of a trio of bound books and a tabletop Venus de Milo looking slightly ‘I know, girl. I know.’

Bring this back!

12.03.2026 17:07 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Text of a page:

Location: New York City.
Status: Unbuilt due to bankruptcy of client.

Text of a page: Location: New York City. Status: Unbuilt due to bankruptcy of client.

Fair. Extremely fair.

12.03.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tilted Spheres In the early 1970s, Richard Serra began working with steel, the material that would define his influential artistic practice through the monumentality of his sculptures.

If you like art, you should definitely go see this: www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you...

11.03.2026 22:36 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Truly loling at ‘We have carefully considered your qualifications’ in light of this timeline

11.03.2026 14:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I just received a rejection email for an academic job I applied to in May 2020. And just… like… what are we doing here

11.03.2026 14:15 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cartoon-like ad for Canadian airline Porter with text, "Fly non-stop to Ottawa" and image of a cartoon raccoon (I guess it's a raccoon?) taking a photo of Louise Bourgeois's sculpture "Maman" outside of the National Gallery of Canada

Cartoon-like ad for Canadian airline Porter with text, "Fly non-stop to Ottawa" and image of a cartoon raccoon (I guess it's a raccoon?) taking a photo of Louise Bourgeois's sculpture "Maman" outside of the National Gallery of Canada

Don't think I would have foreseen a Canadian airline using a Louise Bourgeois sculpture in its advertising, but if your cartoon raccoon mascot wants to take a photo of a contemporary artwork I'm here for it

04.03.2026 16:03 👍 75 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
This printout of a picture of a deep black monochrome painting by wade guyton is not only pale grey it’s streaky as hell, which mean it’s past time to change my printers toner cartridge and probably clean the roller or head or w/e

This printout of a picture of a deep black monochrome painting by wade guyton is not only pale grey it’s streaky as hell, which mean it’s past time to change my printers toner cartridge and probably clean the roller or head or w/e

Whenever I need to check my toner I print a full page picture of a Wade Guyton painting

26.02.2026 22:37 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

04.03.2026 16:56 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2

Which makes me feel like a robot but also 🤷‍♂️🤖

03.03.2026 14:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Learning in my first job the necessity of ‘visiting’ before getting the actual point of the conversation has just caused me to silently build that into any meeting/email outline (because yes same to all of the above). It’s now just 1. Visiting 2. Actual topic 3. Echo something from visit section

03.03.2026 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wick!

03.03.2026 02:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Why the arts still matter at DePaul Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

01.03.2026 21:59 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Letter Opposing the Closing of DPAM

sign to oppose the senseless needless small minded closing the DePaul Art Museum

openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

01.03.2026 16:00 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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Seung-taek Lee, 'Earth Performance,' 1989–96 (2023 reenactment in New York)

Amanda Ross-Ho, 'Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), 2026, at Frieze Los Angeles

01.03.2026 14:49 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

writing an intro is a duel between two urges. one tells me I have a very narrow window of opportunity to hook a reader and so I should be compact, punchy, and informative. the other urge I lovingly call "my bullshit"

24.02.2026 17:34 👍 243 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 1

I know, girl. I know.

21.02.2026 22:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know, girl. I know.

21.02.2026 21:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I know, girl. I know.

21.02.2026 19:18 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Paul Thek’s Meat Cable and Meat Cable

Paul Thek’s Meat Cable and Meat Cable

Museum label: 

Paul Thek
American, 1933-1988
Meat Cable
1969
Meat Cable
1969
Steel cable with three wax elements

Museum label: Paul Thek American, 1933-1988 Meat Cable 1969 Meat Cable 1969 Steel cable with three wax elements

Wait. How many wax elements?

20.02.2026 22:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I will never be as delighted about anything as this ram is just to be vibing

20.02.2026 20:15 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Installation of 7 stone animal sculptures

Installation of 7 stone animal sculptures

🐂

🐂

Central sculpture from the side

Central sculpture from the side

Central sculpture from the back

Central sculpture from the back

Edgar Miller’s Animal Court (1937), originally made for the Jane Addams Homes

20.02.2026 20:12 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hallway with a brick wall on one side

Hallway with a brick wall on one side

A brick wall w a square outlined in yellow paint and a yellow placard

A brick wall w a square outlined in yellow paint and a yellow placard

Look at those bricks!

Look at those bricks!

Placard explaining Chicago Common bricks

Placard explaining Chicago Common bricks

VERY into this Chicago Common bricks display at the National Public Housing Museum 🧱🟨🧱

20.02.2026 19:10 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did a thing this morning. And, no, I cannot explain this lighting fixture.

Did a thing this morning. And, no, I cannot explain this lighting fixture.

I also absolutely cannot explain this thing but pretended I could.

I also absolutely cannot explain this thing but pretended I could.

If the claw gesture is to be believed, I’m apparently making a really important point about this thing

20.02.2026 00:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly becoming the most antisocial of all antisocial messages

19.02.2026 23:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A great comma

A great comma

Also: a great comma

19.02.2026 23:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
View from the side of ‘The street is more important than the museum…’

View from the side of ‘The street is more important than the museum…’

Boop

Boop

LOOK AT THE EXTRA SUPPORT FOR THE T! LOOK AT IT!

19.02.2026 23:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bench with metal letters ‘it’s a joke’

Bench with metal letters ‘it’s a joke’

Bench with metal letters ‘how antisocial,’

Bench with metal letters ‘how antisocial,’

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’ from a different angle

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’ from a different angle

Deeply obsessed with MOS and Tony Cokes’ Public Benches

19.02.2026 23:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

William Wegman’s dogs have no idea you’re laughing at them. Shame on you

19.02.2026 23:05 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Currently on view at Patron Gallery. So… Just saying… It might be… It could be…

19.02.2026 00:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0