From r/AskReddit: People working in ultra-wealthy households, talking $50m plus types, what is the most out-of-touch thing you've witnessed?

Verso of Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross: First Station:

Duane Koyawena (Hopi/Tewa) & Joe Mastroianni "Hopi R2" (2019)

German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

Correct! Laib in his own words: "I work first with a small machine, but most of the rim and everything I grind by hand with sandpaper and water, which is a lot of work."

"Describe your perfect date." "I'd have to say April 25th, because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."

Wolfgang Laib "Milkstone" (1978) 🏛️: MoMA

Pianos really had a reckoning in the 1960s

And for some people barriers and signage are not deterrents

I am up at 4:30 EST to attend a webinar on museum lighting

New Josh Kline "Skittles" flavor just dropped

The former headquarters of Magic Chef in St. Louis, now operating as a U-Haul, featuring a recently restored ceiling installation by Isamu Noguchi which had been, for years, concealed by a drop ceiling.

Post your favorite museum paintings of doctors healing people

In our collection

The hat makes sense

Which Iranian sites have been damaged? An important new GIS DH project maps the historic & archaeological sites damaged (69+ so far) by US-Israeli strikes in Iran. heritagewatch.camelab.net The Society of Iranian Studies is working with the Center of Ancient Mediterranean Landscapes & EAMENA.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Public transit wins this morning: • new bus model with built in chargers • overhearing dispatch on the radio wish all drivers a happy Friday and appreciation for the work they do

Tania Bruguera "Tatlin’s Whisper #5" (2008) 🏛️ Tate

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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Roman Ondak "Good Feelings in Good Times" (2003) 🏛️Tate performance work comprising a line of people, queuing for nothing.

Happy spring!

RIP Calvin Tomkins, the great art writer of postwar America. His lucid writing speaks for artists, while welcoming all interested readers into the world of contemporary art. He was 100. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Put a contemporary speculative bubble inside your historic speculative bubble

"I don't want to be working in oil, or tempera, or things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to all the portrait and landscape people out there." - Paul Delaroche on seeing his first daguerreotype (1839)

What's My JND? 0.0090 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I'm in Santiago and I made it to South America's Guggenheim. (It was on the life list.) Really, it's a spiral mall, or caracol, an architectural type typical of Chile that came about in the '70s. In this one, you can get your cell phone fixed, get your nails done and buy dildos.

Since January I've been working on exhibition lighting recommendations and over the past three months I've been learning so much about light

How it started / How it's going

Driving into work and seeing signs saying "De-icing efforts in effect"

Perfect time for SFMOMA and Guggenheim to show Paul Kos's "Sound of Ice Melting" (1970).

Trump looks like that seagull that fell into a vat of curry.

Since 1986, Don Miller’s 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.

The circle motif reminds me of a Nasca llama bone flute in our collection. Flute Nasca (Peru) (100 BCE-800 CE) 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches

It's always fun when x-radiography and infrared reflectography reveal artists changing their minds, whether adjusting a hand here, refining a profile there, or in this case, reducing the size of a bull's gigantic cobblers: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Them: "Don't let this distract you from the fact they haven't released all the Epstein files." Me: "Don't let this distract you that we're six months out and there's no evidence of anyone receiving any of the $ 30,000,000 budget for Trump's 'Garden of Heroes'."

In 2016, UNC unveiled a Nobel Prize medal exhibit honoring the Aziz Sancar and Oliver Smithies. Both were in attendance with their Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology.

Nan Goldin "Heart-Shaped Bruise, New York City" (1980) 🏛️ MoMA

Maurizio Cattelan "L.O.V.E. [Libertà, Odio, Vendetta, Eternità / Freedom, Hatred, Revenge, Eternity]" (2010) 🏛️ Piazza degli Affari, Milan

Tired of all those George W. Bush paintings? Here, have some Jimmy Carter paintings. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...

I am once again begging museums to put benches/some form of seating in front of videos. It is really just not that hard.

Bad Bunny is that kind of museum patron