If you want to think about something else for a minute and learn how to view Van Gogh's work with more context, I highly recommend this discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHc...

Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

Vincent van Gogh, Butterflies & Poppies, 1889. Note the directness, even offhandedness, of Van Gogh's artistic approach here: the blue line he drew along the edges to frame the composition, and the areas of bare, unpainted canvas www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

Early Sunday Morning, Madison Ave NYC, September 2025

Lovely showing of works by @naylandblake.bsky.social, now on view through Oct. 25 at Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/...

Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

A painting to usher in the weekend—and perhaps provide a tiny bit of solace: Vincent van Gogh's 1889 "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards," from collection of Neue Pinakothek, Munich www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/R...

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

Untitled #7, from the Rome series by LA-based photographer Anthony Hernandez collections.lacma.org/node/200680

Roy Lichtenstein, Bathroom, 1961 whitney.org/collection/w...

Hot dog coat-of-arms, created for the 50th anniversary of the invention of the hot dog, at Coney Island in 1939. Shows a hot dog being knighted, flanked by two wiener dogs, crowned by mustard. (They took some liberties with the Latin, but do you expect a hot dog place to have an in-house Latinist?)

For the time being this account will only be posting escalator-themed artworks. Thank you for your patience & understanding (Duane Michals, Escalator, 1964) www.artic.edu/artworks/302...

"Escalator," a 1970 work by Photorealist painter Richard Estes

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Busy Going Crazy), 1989

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These days I think a lot about artist George Grosz, who barely escaped from Germany to the US in 1930s as the Nazis rose to power. His scathing critiques of the rise of a fascist society put him at real risk of retribution. This is his "A Little Child Shall Lead Them (Family)" from 1932

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Death by Gun) is a stack of posters listing the more than 460 people killed by firearms during a single week in 1989. Viewers are invited to take a poster as the stack is constantly replenished www.moma.org/collection/w...

General Idea, "Capsule," 1990

Seems like it would be a good time to remind people of Christy Rupp's late '70s/early '80s rat-inspired artworks: Christy Rupp, Reagan Rat, 1981

Hey folks anyone got anything special happening today..?

Hey folks anyone got anything special happening today..?

General Idea, "Capsule," 1990

Today we had an inter-departmental day at work and I went to a slug model-making workshop run by one of my natural history colleagues who is an expert in slugs and snails and has made various models for the galleries. Best bit of my day! The beauty of being in a museum of mixed collections…

In upcoming sale, Sotheby's London is set to sell Frida Kahlo's self-portrait in bed. The papier-mache skeleton perched on the canopy is a distinctive Judas figure—used in Mexico during Holy Week—also visible in Diego Rivera's 1954 image of his studio, at right www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

I included this in an earlier reply to someone else & now posting it here because it's one of my favorite of the artist's paintings and continues to be so, so relevant in the present day: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico & the United States, 1932

To celebrate Sun Day—day of action highlighting benefits of clean energy—a thread of some memorable sun-themed artworks. First up: Vincent van Gogh, The Sower, 1888

John Miller, Salute, 1990

🚨ARTIST'S DOGS ALERT🚨 Breaking news: today I learned that French publisher Norma Éditions has a book out on influential painter Joan Mitchell and her dogs, and that an edition in English is forthcoming later this year. Here's Mitchell at the beach with her poodle, Georges du Soleil

Further proof that the NY Times Spelling Bee game is total trash

Just one more week to find respite in the gorgeous, luminous Hilma af Klint show at MoMA, featuring works that cross-wire botanical illustration, abstraction, & spiritually inflected vision of the natural world. On view through Sep. 27 www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

If you missed September's First Light you can listen to it here: eastvillageradio.com/first-light-...

"Cat with Gwen," Jacob Lawrence's 1960 ink sketch of his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight, with feline companion #caturday

To usher in the weekend, Marisol's delightful "Women and Dog," 1963-64, in soon-to-open Sixties Surreal show at the Whitney. All the human figures in the composition have been interpreted as self-portraits of the artist; and maybe the dog is too—who's to say..?

Opening today at Met Museum, stunning survey of African-American artist John Wilson (1922-2015), who spent much of his life & career in Boston area. Features a wide range of Wilson's work, including his heartfelt, contemplative portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012

To usher in the weekend, Marisol's delightful "Women and Dog," 1963-64, in soon-to-open Sixties Surreal show at the Whitney. All the human figures in the composition have been interpreted as self-portraits of the artist; and maybe the dog is too—who's to say..?

On another front: saw this last night and I have, um...thoughts, but will not be sharing them on here so as not to get brigaded by what I'm sure are the many Keanu stans on this social media platform

And Charles White's circa 1942 "Untitled," which seems to effectively convey the state of mind a lot of us have been in lately

Whit’s End Macon, IL

As adjunct to soon-to-open exhibition at the Whitney, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea has a concurrent show, "Surreal America," with some great works including: this absolute 🔥 Pavel Tchelitchew portrait of Fidelma Cadmus, sister of Paul Cadmus & sometime partner of Lincoln Kirstein

I know the world's going to hell in a handbasket, but I've been going to some museum previews in recent days & there are some interesting exhibitions to look forward to in NYC. First up, "Sixties Surreal," opening next week at the Whitney, including: video work by Shigeko Kubota

The Ohio State University is now requiring students to become "fluent" in AI. It's a perverse metaphor, and as always, the wisdom of Star Trek proves useful in understanding its perversity. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

I'm just a guy who teaches art history, but I have learned this: every moment, of every day, I get to choose what I put out into the world. Will it be guided by love, kindness & compassion, or anger, hostility & destructiveness? I'm not always successful, but I know which direction I try to go

Hard to think of many artists of the last fifty years more clear-sighted than this: David Wojnarowicz, "Democracy at Work," 1990

Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933

Paul Klee, Comedian, 1904 collections.artsmia.org/art/58471/ko...

Roger Brown, Migration, 1980

My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. The application deadline is in two weeks, on October 1st. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

This is about music shows, but works for art shows as well! Just last week was giving my students a tour of Beauford Delaney show at Drawing Center, & lots of other visitors wanted to join in & listen, which was great! Always lovely that so many people are interested in art & want to engage with it