It’s important when you receive the genuinely loliest fellowship reviewer’s feedback to have friends who will instantly turn it into merch.

FINALLY

Backing up photos from last week’s research trip and just a truly great composition here

i will never sign up for a shop account to track my order. where my candles are is between usps and god now

I do think that in 1946, when high school senior Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. signed Cy Twombly on his draft card, Mrs. Garth, who had taken all this time to fill out the form, made him go back and write his government name. greg.org/archive/2026...

“RedBall” at Old City Hall by artist Kurt Perschke. Part of the 2026 Luminato Festival … transforming spaces across Toronto with bold and playful art experiences.

My library has one of the best Robinson Crusoe collections in the world, not only over 1000 editions and adaptations of the novel itself, but also things related to Crusoe fan culture. Was working with a researcher today and discovered ROBINSON CRUSOE SMOKED SALMON from 1979 Chile

good morning june 1, time to make the wordcounts

That plastic-wrapped pallet of books on exhibit: "Contemporary Black Male Literature Starter Kit, 2003-present" by Rashid Johnson at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

I just 🥵

Regina Bogat, Cord Painting 14 (1977), acrylic with nylon and satin cords on canvas

If the invite to your gallery show isn't giving ripped Ed Ruscha then I will not be reviewing.

Looking through a university president’s papers c 1960

When someone asks How The Piece is Coming Along and you thought it wasn’t due for another month

Nancy Rubins’ Monochrome for Austin (2015), stainless steel and aluminum

I genuinely thought they would be bigger… (Not a bit. I swear. I really thought the sculpture was larger.)

I know, girl. I know.

An absolute banger. Jerry Bywaters, Oil Field Girls (1940), oil on board

I know, girl. I know.

Whoops

There it is.

First archive visit in over a year. New projects mean new institution reception plans #5plattersorcompotesofcheesestraws

How I enter the Memorial Day BBQ.

thinking about that Robert Gobert long haired cheese

Fabergé Cactus, c. 1900, from a surprisingly large collection of small Fabergé hardstone plants, selling in June 2026 at Christie's greg.org/archive/2026...

🏢🌞🏢

It's unfortunate that there is no reward for all the emails one has risen above replying to in the way they deserve.

How is there no movie about Horace Pippin?

Just count the words. That’s all you need to do.

Human writing tick that AI will never capture: I love to start a sentence that doesn't quite know where it's going to land and interrupting it with a related but separate clause—𝑜ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑑 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑒, you're thinking, and you would be right to roll your eyes—to buy time to figure it out.

I don’t want to mingle, I just want to hang out with this horse

Still time to take advantage of @yalepress.bsky.social’s spring sale and get 100% of The World Atlas of Public Art for 50% off. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

If I could surreptitiously Airdrop these to @greg.org in a crowded subway I would so do it, but because he lives 3,000 miles away, Imma put them on Bluesky instead.

"Grandpa, tell us again about when search engines used to return useful results"

12. Julia Child used to serve goldfish crackers as an appetizer and you can to

This is the greatest punch card in the history of punch cards.

Finally, Tiffany Chung's cartographic projects — embroideries tracing global flows and networks, the spice trade, oceanic currents — at Ryan Lee. Chung has been a repeat case study in my map classes over the years :)

Meg Webster's Thicket at Paula Cooper. Smells amazing.

Christina Kruse at New Discretions

i assume that's because you're staying out of the sun

I REALLY need more of you talking about the Kidman x Brancusi video Christie’s dropped yesterday. Put it in the Biennale! Give it a Golden Lion! youtu.be/nMDlal5tQP8

I love imagining the mindset behind the people making the cover for this report from 1966 about Robert McNamara's views on nuclear war — somehow they landed on "make it look like a wedding invitation."

A 1970 happening staged by Hannah Weiner, Marjorie Strider and John Perreault. "World Works was the sixth iteration of ‘Street Works’, a performance series by Hannah Weiner," via Wrong Answer www.wronganswer.ca/shop/world-w...

scholarly publishing is 25 no's and 1 maybe-but-not-for-at-least-6-months in a trench coat

In 1991 General Idea made at least six paintings of their Robert Indiana-style AIDS logo in the black monochrome style of Ad Reinhardt. #4 is coming up for auction at Phillips in a couple of weeks. greg.org/archive/2026...

Okay, fine. I also want this seaweed hat Joan Jonas is wearing. But that's only two things!

My informed take as a publisher is that the tethering of job security and academic freedom, in the form of tenure, to a book of all things is a disaster.

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

Triumphant return to the mid-Atlantic for the 2026/2027 academic year! I’m excited to work on book 3 but, if I’m being honest, I’m maybe more excited for the afternoon cookies. This is all very nuts and very wild and I’m very grateful for this.

The highlight of this market is arguably the giant “Historia de México” by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, located on an empty upper floor of the market between two quiet office spaces.