35 mm film format as an armature for drawing/ abstract painting. #art

#drawing as an investigation of 35mm film stock manufacture, comparing film perforations: Kodak Standard (KS) vs Dubray–Howell (DH). Mindless Pleasures 5 12” x 9” Mixed media on paper 2018 #art

I love the irregular grids and subtle color of these James Bishop works (drawings? Paintings?) on paper as a part of ‘To Continue Painting’ curated by @mollywarnock.bsky.social at Timothy Taylor Gallery. #art

Addie Wagenknecht : Self Portrait no.1, 2017 Painting with a Roomba & Int'l Klein Blue dry pigment and resin on linen, 36" x 24" 📸 : John Berens

The drawings in the Mindless Pleasures series were initially inspired by the mechanics and measures of projection film stock & the frame ratios available…

"Conversation Between Two Trees". Salted paper print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. #alternativeprocess #filmphotography

A #drawing project that still resonates: The ‘Mindless Pleasures’ series is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Gravity’s Rainbow.” His themes of the individual subjected to surveillance and control by government power in the service of corporate interests has become startlingly relevant #art

I've been sitting on this secret for a long time, but now it can be told! The National Gallery of Art acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting, the Magdalene in Ecstasy, c. 1625:

CODA #art

If you go out into the cold tonight, look up at the waxing gibbous moon, nearly full, and also look below and to the right of it at the super bright star-like object that is Jupiter.

FRAGMENT #art #collage #contemporaryart #USA #flag

End/ not ending… THURSDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

Winter silence. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

Continuing… TUESDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

And again… MONDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

Continuing… SUNDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

What once was old, is now new again. SATURDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

In solidarity with my home state: FRIDAY MORNING DECONSTRUCTION #art

Mix up toms of Maine and tom of Finland one time and everyone calls you toothpaste cock forever

love this museum so much ever since @briandupont.bsky.social first took me there

When the repair department’s commitment to ‘truth to materials’ is maybe a bit over the top…

it didn't click until I got to the end of the blog post, but Ligon was actually appropriating cringe white guy texts for paintings the same time Prince was. cf. Ligon's stenciled painting of a Hirshhorn curator's racist quote in the Times about Martin Puryear, from 1988: greg.org/archive/2024...

Glenn Ligon's hand-drawn edition, Punchline (2024) redacts all but the last line of a 1989 joke painting study by Richard Prince. greg.org/archive/2026... it's at Ligon's show of works on paper at Hauser & Wirth

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

You still have a chance to get out and see the ChrisMoss show ‘Group Chat’ at @theodoreartnyc.bsky.social These are hybrid, funky works between #painting & #sculpture, as if the #muppets were designed by Donald Judd. … & the titles are just great. The show is open until Jan 30 in Tribeca. #art

New #painting: thinking about ideas of representation inside abstraction. PORTRAIT STUDY Oil, paintstick, alkyd resin and wax on aluminum mounted on wood panel. 34”” x 30” #art

We protect more vulnerable individual members of the pack by encircling them and confusing the wolves

A million years ago, a city I lived in was issuing municipal ID cards. Everyone who lived there was encouraged to get one, even if we had drivers licenses, so that undocumented folks with one wouldn't stand out Point is: communities protect the vulnerable by integrating them more deeply

for art world reasons, when I married @briandupont.bsky.social I also married NYC, a constraint that from time to time I have wished were otherwise realized today how happy I am we never left, in fact the thought of leaving hasn’t even crossed my mind since who knows when I love this city so much!

2 new recently completed paintings inspired by the film “New York Eye & Ear Control”, the collaboration between Albert Ayler’s free jazz band & filmmaker Michael Snow. 1. FREE TIMED 2. UNTITLED (AYLER) Both oil, paintstick, crayon, alkyd and wax on enamel and epoxy on wood; 21.5” x 14.5” #art

Paints inspired by the mechanics of film projection. GATE STUDY I & GATE STUDY II Oil, paintstick, crayon, alkyd and wax on enamel and epoxy on wood 21.5” x 14.5” (each) #art #painting #abstractart #contemporaryart #abstractart

This was not exactly the decor I expected for an eye exam…

Starting a #painting for the new year. The foundation of stories & myth is a seed of truth. The whaleship Essex did not sale on Christmas Day, but that date harbors many fabrications… #art

next year’s goal: finish 15 poems (maybe I’ll finish more, I have so many in the hopper)

I didn’t see that much abstract expressionist art in 2025. (I saw a lot more in 2024!) But in March, on an AGO trip , I ducked in to see Gerhard Richter’s ‘Abstraktes Bild’ from 1986. Although he was a toxic boss- he still is an incredible artist.

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Small works from ‘Antoni Tàpies: On paper’ at Pace Gallery. Small works on paper, moving between drawing & painting, studio notes & detritus. There’s a wonderful sense of the ephemeral made material. #art

It’s winter again, if you’re out shopping, stop by ‘Group Chat’ with new #art by Chris Moss at Theodore Art in Tribeca. I don’t think you can come out this show without a renewed sense of whimsy and that art & play can raise our spirits.

Oh yesss

Tàpies counting on through his drawing & painting on paper hits differently when you think about making #art under a fascist regime. Instead of elementary counting, it becomes a marking of time served, a record of endurance. ‘Antoni Tàpies: On paper’ at Pace Gallery, through Saturday.

Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1967 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451

This is the last weekend to see ‘Antoni Tàpies: On paper’ at Pace Gallery. He was an extraordinary abstract painter concerned not only with gestural abstraction, but the interaction between people and and the world expressed via materials. #art

What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.

New drawing

Would you really have it any other way? T minus 8 minutes!

Correction: announcement is 7:30 PM ET, right on time for FanGraphs’ dinner reservation.

Meret Oppenheim - Vein Boots (2007)

Standing up to bad things is good actually