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jenny holzer inflammatory essays

specifically seeing them on the big wall at the guggenheim. tears in my eyes also - magritte’s the lovers sun yuan and peng yu’s can’t help myself polly nor’s you don’t know him like i do several of van gogh’s works like this one and this one and this one and this one felix gonzalez-torres “untitled” (portrait of ross in LA) unfinished painting by keith haring the silent voice by gerald moira tessa boffin untitled #1 klimt’s death and life schneelandschaft by cuno amiet (it’s huge in person) disappointed love by francis danby in the kitchen by helena janecic christina’s world by andrew wyeth

@marxinista

Nov 11, 2024

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ART

Leon Spilliaert, Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, Rachel Harrison, Cristine Brache, Lois Dodd, Edwin Dicksinson, Albert York, Dorothea Tanning, Miriam Cahn, Kevin Tobin, Shelly Uckotter, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons Paul McCarthy Mike Kelley, John Currin, Felix LaBisse, Leonor Finis, Karen Kilimnik, John Wesley, Trish Donnelly, Richard Bosman, Pierre Bonnard Harold Gilman Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (late work) Francis Picabia (late work), PIerre Klossowski, Bruce Nauman, Otto Muehl, Otto Mueller, Allen Jones, Ken Lum, Ed Ruscha, Aisling Hamrogue, Victor Brauner, Moses, Ralph and Isaac Soyer, Verne Dawson, Jay Isaac, Thomas Schutte, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Judy Chicago (paintings), Georges Kars, Ferdinand Hodler, George Grosz (erotica especially), R.B. Kitaj (late work), Milton Avery, Henri Fantin-Latour, Andre Ethier, Frantisek Kupka, Josh Smith, William Eggleson, Lee Friedlander, Albert Marquet, Fernando Botero (El Chapo paintings), Alan Michael, Dora Carrington, Hans-Peter Feldmann, James Ensor, Judy Glantzman, Elmer Batters, Cunio Amiet, Mary Pratt, Annie Pootoogook

@brad-phillips

STAFF

Mar 29, 2022

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Louis Nevelson’s sculpture at st. louis Art museum

This sculpture is in SLAM’s permanent collection and they recently put it on display after a long time in storage She’s my favorite artist, and you can look at this piece for an hour and it keeps feeling fresh, like you never get to the bottom of understanding it. I like her work (and this piece in particular) because it’s emotionally rich. To me it embodies paradoxes like being both playful and somber, lively and elegiac, busy but unified, individual but collective, primal but contemporary, geometric and organic, abstract yet figurative, dissonant and harmonious, pattern and noise, cheeky and serious, quiet and commanding. Go spend some time with her.

@dannyboy

Dec 17, 2024

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•U•sa•ha•na• Computer

My ebay window-shopping habit has spiraled out of control

@greenstar

Mar 12, 2025

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parallel play

it's fun to make stuff next to other people :,)

@greenstar

Feb 8, 2025

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SOVIET (& SOMETIMES IMPERIAL) PORCELAIN FIGURINES

Lately I've been spending too much time scouring every corner of eBay I can for the cheapest and most delightful soviet era porcelain figurines available I didn't even realize it until diving head first into this rabbit hole, but I have had soviet era porcelain figurines my whole life (a bunny and a bull for those curious), so I guess I was always destined to develop a fondness for the form, and eventually dig a little deeper into it. There is something so incredibly charming and also incredibly interesting about these porcelain pieces! These little guys! There's a lot of history to dig into that I've barely scratched the surface of AT ALL, but I'm fascinated by how porcelain reflected the common sentiments* of the times, the economic conditions, the artistic movements and ideas of the day, and also the ability (or lack thereof) of people to stay in one place and hold onto something so "useless" and easily broken. I have very, very few things from any of my ancestors. Figurines like these make me think about the way history and art are passed down to us, forgotten, broken, left behind, sold in thrift stores and online, if they survive at all. Figurine collections are kind of a barometer of safety and stability, or at least how dedicated to the illusion of it you might be. They also make me think about how useful "useless" things can be. How even art that is purely decorative can be thought-provoking (by for example valorizing "folks"), or just make you happy (via being very cute! Or expert use of color and form!). Grannies collect this shit for many good reasons and I'm starting to catch on. __________________________ * Notably the $$$ collectors type ones are the ethnographic figurines, something I NEED to read an academic paper about. Especially, because Ive noticed some of these figurines depicting "ethnic types" are inaccurate copies of earlier prints, which themselves should be placed under immense scrutiny! This is all extra interesting in the context of the porcelain industry transitioning from imperial rule to the soviet era. The ways of talking about ethnicity changed, (in addition obviously to y'know, everything!) but the products produced largely remained the same. Lots to think about!!!

@greenstar

Jan 31, 2025