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Michael Lobel

@mlobelart.bsky.social

Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them. Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g

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Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 16h ago

Title page of my copy of David Wojnarowicz's "Close to the Knives," which he inscribed for me at a book talk he gave at A Different Light bookstore on Castro Street in San Francisco in 1991. Core memory unlocked🔥

Title page of "Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration" by David Wojnarowicz, inscribed "For Michael/ David Wojnarowicz/ SF 1991"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 22h ago

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 22h ago

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d ago

To me, one of the most touching representations of the Twin Towers before 9/11 is Gabriel Orozco's haunting "Island Within an Island" of 1993, in which the artist constructed a tiny scale model of lower Manhattan using scavenged detritus leaned against a concrete barricade

A view of lower Manhattan with a bunch of junk positioned to look like a scale model of the buildings in the background
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d ago

To me, one of the most touching representations of the Twin Towers before 9/11 is Gabriel Orozco's haunting "Island Within an Island" of 1993, in which the artist constructed a tiny scale model of lower Manhattan using scavenged detritus leaned against a concrete barricade

A view of lower Manhattan with a bunch of junk positioned to look like a scale model of the buildings in the background
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d ago

Excerpts from Stephen Vitiello, World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd, 1999/2002. Vitiello had a studio on the 91st floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center, where he made this recording of sounds made by the swaying building

4.8K views · 130 reactions | On the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11, we're sharing a sound installation by Stephen Vitiello from the Whitney's collection. Vitiello began making recordings from his studio on the 91st floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center while participating in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's artist-in-residence program. Based on a recording Vitiello made the day after Hurricane Floyd struck New York in September 1999, this work captures the noises of the swaying building stressed by the fierce winds. Shown at the 2002 Whitney Biennial in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, the piece assumed the status of an unwitting memorial to all that was lost. — Stephen Vitiello, World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd (excerpt), 1999/2002. Sound installation, 8:20 min., with DVD surround sound mix and chromogenic print face mounted to plexiglass and mounted on aluminum. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2003.89. © 1999/2002 Stephen Vitiello | Whitney Museum of American Art

On the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11, we're sharing a sound installation by Stephen Vitiello from the Whitney's collection. Vitiello began making recordings from his studio on the 91st floor of...

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Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · last wk.

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · last wk.

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I actually think much of his work, even earlier pictures, have a darker side that's often overlooked due to the Pop designation that's been applied to them, like his 1965 "Woman in Tub," which makes me think of David's Marat (at the very least it looks like she's thinking heavy thoughts)

Painting of a woman in a bathtub, only her head and neck visible