This would have made an incredible mousepad (complimentary)

Sometimes it pays not to sign the contract because then it means you didn’t sign the non disclosure agreement.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

The way in which I am incapable of liking Marc Chagall

NO PE “The U. announced last October that it had purchased the sculpture for $4.5 million. To meet that price, donors put up $2.5 million, and another $2 million came from Utah’s public art funding.”

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

I’d say just because you own a Picasso doesn’t mean you have to display a Picasso. But they don’t own this and it’s a private loan and so truly WHAT are they doing.

My jaw dropped when I rounded the corner to see this. Never in a million years thought I’d see this particular cameron rowland again.

I know, girl. I know.

I know, girl. I know.

I know, girl. I know.

Kate Clements’ Acanthus (2025), kiln-fired glass, metal armature, and cable wire

Cranach, always a perfect freak

Just received a peer review request that feels like I unlocked some sort of academic subfield longevity achievement (or maybe also indicates that everyone else in the subfield is gone).

The ceramic Livery St Subway Mural that I designed in Birmingham, commissioned by Birmingham Colmore, Moda Living & Birmingham City Council, project managed by Philip Singleton, video by @gardnergareth.bsky.social

It’s opportunistic CAA conference spam season!

If you’re 40-ish and have ever worked in the arts, you have either been employed by a Delia Dietz or you *are* Delia Dietz. RIP, dear Catherine O’Hara. 🖤

New to view

Guys. GUYS.

The goal is to be done by the end of the week and… well… Introduction ✅ Chapter 1 ✅ Chapter 2 ✅ Chapter 3 ✅ Chapter 4 ✅ Chapter 5 ✅ Conclusion ✅

Samuel de Champlain receiving a hug from a snow ghost

The goal is to be done by the end of the week Introduction ☑️ Chapter 1 ✅ Chapter 2 ✅ Chapter 3 ✅ Chapter 4 ✅ Chapter 5 ✅ Conclusion ✅

The goal is to be done by the end of the week Introduction ☑️ Chapter 1 ✅ Chapter 2 ☑️ Chapter 3 ✅ Chapter 4 ✅ Chapter 5 ✅ Conclusion ✅

Living in the modern world is like being a farmer, but instead of tending animals you’re just tending the battery status of various electronics.

Marcel Duchamp, "In Advance of the Broken Arm," 1915 www.moma.org/collection/w...

I get it, babe.

Strangely affecting to visit the President’s House in Philly, the day after the Park Service vandalized its memorial to Washington’s enslaved workers.

A journal has had an article of mine since August and TODAY let me know they JUST found a second reviewer. I don’t know who to be furious at except myself for being a chump who agrees to peer review requests 90% of the times I’m asked.

Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜 search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...

Ossington Avenue parkette by Forest and Field Landscape Architecture and art panel by Indigenous artist Philip Cote.

I didn’t know it was your…

Yes, it’s way too long and extremely unwieldy. But it’s also the first time in the years of working on this project that I have an actual finished draft of an introduction chapter. Time to print and hand edit IntroductionChapterDraft2026JanuaryD

A Figure of a Servant Woman peeling an Apple, Dutch, c. 1650-1675, Oil on wood, 1187 x 768 mm (West Hall, Dyrham Park, Bath). Dummy boards were illusionistic cut-out figures that often represented the inhabitants of the home, used as chimney boards, fire screens, or just for fun.

As I try to make an end of the month deadline, thrilled to announce my document is now saved as IntroductionChapterDraft 2026JanuaryC2

“It’s a testament to the fact that public art comes at a cost, and not every city agency has the funding to secure it, even if a billionaire-funded foundation can get it approved. “

D895,378 - issued in 2020 for a design for a "broccoli shaped puree food mold." #DesignPatents

Hey! What are you doing? Have you considered getting loose with a surprise WEDNESDAY SCREAM??????????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Janine Antoni, Chocolate Gnaw, 1992, a 600-lb cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist www.janineantoni.net/gnaw

Yes, this is a real problem that I deal with every day! Art history students are generally taught ZERO about either copyright issues or about how digital images work, and it quickly becomes a problem the moment they enter the "real world" of publishing, through no fault of their own.

hey you -- yes, you! Are you an academic, librarian, or other academia-adject professional? Do you owe someone writing? Are you ever actually going to do the writing? If not, email them and back out! You will feel better, and the people on the other end will finally have some clarity!!

happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996

Public anger at how billionaires destroy common goods ratchets higher and understandably so, but how do we feel when the very wealthy shape public space and public institutions through art choices? Should one couple get to decide what SFMOMA looks like?

ces œuvres ne sont pas comestibles

Last spring, looking ahead & predicting this would most likely be a difficult time, I decided to create a new class at Hunter College on values & experiences that feel important to me. Hence this semester's class, with the full title "Love, Joy, & Devotion: Towards an Affirmative Art History"

Everything is a disaster but since this is syllabus writing/revising week: Semi-annual reminder that if you assign any of my work in your class, I’m always happy to zoom in! Also happy to discuss with your students what public artworks they think are great or dumb!

William Bradford's jaw wasn't that chiseled

Everything is a disaster but since this is syllabus writing/revising week: Semi-annual reminder that if you assign any of my work in your class, I’m always happy to zoom in! Also happy to discuss with your students what public artworks they think are great or dumb!

2026 means finally clearing the moving wall delay on the digital availability of this article: Sanctuary and Storm: Michael Mazur's Art for an Antinuclear Massachusetts www.jstor.org/stable/27373...

January 5 ⭕️