It’s beyond patronizing when university administrators act like we don’t know how math works. I work at a public university, our books are (mostly) public record. Being told to ‘work on retention’ when we’re already killing ourselves for our students while being paid pennies is infuriating.

Great exhibition opportunity at ARC Gallery, Chicago!

“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."

New show "Woman's Eye" at the Puerto Ricaan Arts Alliance, Chicago.

Looking forward to this new MCA Chicago exhibition

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

Definitely worth a visit!

Sonya Clark, "Unraveling" and "Unraveled," 2015 #ConfederateSurrenderDay

Chicago! Tuesday! interccect.com/2026/03/19/w...

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...

#NoKings protest East Lakeview Chicago!

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?

This Gertrude Abercrombie exhibit is definitely worth a visit!

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

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...

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...

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...

I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.

“It has come to be viewed as a surprisingly important museum in the ecosystem. It is small and willing to do things other museums and even other university museums are not so readily able to do.”

It's still up.

My architecture column today: "The artist was picked in September to create a new terrazzo tile atrium floor at the base of the building. The job included a new decorative skin — possibly a mix of vinyl and stained glass — to adorn the atrium’s exposed 17-story elevator system."

While you are watching the game, the perfumed class will wander the streets in a reverie. Quick bises hello by the otherwise empty sushi stand. Courtly bows in front of the gay bar.

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

Firelei Báez, To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond) (2017), acrylic on canvas

National Gallery of art in Washington acquires a key Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (until recently on long-term loan to the Palazzo Ducale in Venice)

Today’s moment of calm. New life will soon becoming to the beaches near where we live

For the latest issue of The Magazine Antiques I wrote about Ethan Allen catalogs, the Eamses, Venturi & Scott Brown, and the fraught effort to celebrate the 200th birthday of the United States at a moment when the country was a hot mess. Sound familiar? 🦅 www.themagazineantiques.com/article/1976...

Lecture alert! Wed. Feb 25th, I'll be giving a talk I've been working on for many months: "The Magic Hype: Andy Warhol and Trans Visibility in the 1970s" at the Dia Foundation in Chelsea. In coordination, Dia will have three days of screenings of Warhol films. diaart.org/program/cale...

For Dutch people: here's the petition to sign to support a boycott of the World Cup in the USA: actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...