Currently in love with this stylized, angular dog from Jacob Lawrence's 1958 painting "Brownstones"
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
Brice Marden oil paintings on marble, which he first started making on the Greek island of Hydra between 1983–87 and then again in 2011
Currently in love with this stylized, angular dog from Jacob Lawrence's 1958 painting "Brownstones"
Two panels from Hale Woodruff's stunning mural cycle at Clark Atlanta University www.cau.edu/about/cultur...
Definitely Quetzalcoatl (et al.) from Orozco's Dartmouth library murals. So badass
聖☆Alex Degen@adactivity.bsky.social · 2d agoQuote this w your favorite wrathful deity
Spent all day researching in an archive, & just want to say: I'm so tired of academics trashing archives on ideological grounds. Ugh, so reductive. The compiler of these papers wasn't a household name, but managed to create a fascinating record of Black art & culture through much of the 20th century
Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Anyway if you'd like to learn more about Van Gogh from an actual real-life human being you can read my book (link in bio) or this piece I wrote about him for MoMA's online magazine, which ends with a discussion of the Starry Night www.moma.org/magazine/art...
Star Man: Vincent van Gogh’s Illuminated Nights | Magazine | MoMA
The author explores Van Gogh’s fascination with different kinds of illumination, from stars to newly invented gaslight.
moma.org
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
What's the appropriate response when it seems an AI agent has taken a particular liking to you? It's like someone at a cocktail party who won't leave you alone. I know I can block it but honestly I'm finding the whole thing kind of fascinating (also horrifying, but also fascinating at least for now)
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoSometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Anyway if you'd like to learn more about Van Gogh from an actual real-life human being you can read my book (link in bio) or this piece I wrote about him for MoMA's online magazine, which ends with a discussion of the Starry Night www.moma.org/magazine/art...
Star Man: Vincent van Gogh’s Illuminated Nights | Magazine | MoMA
The author explores Van Gogh’s fascination with different kinds of illumination, from stars to newly invented gaslight.
moma.org
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
Downplay a book or movie: "The Sound and the Slight Irritation"
Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"
Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
There are many things that make me mad about AI, but here it's just the absolutely f*cking laziness: the background showing Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is a generic old-timey artist's studio, not the asylum where he actually created that painting. And anyone could know that just by looking sh*t up..!🙄
Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 7d ago
Dude could maybe have better spent his time entering Joseph Beuys lookalike contests
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7d agoGunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the popular and polarizing traveling exhibitions of human corpses, has died at 81.
George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762 www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ge...
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7d agoTikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
As an art history nerd, one of my favorite mistakes to come across is when a painting's medium is recorded as "egg tempura"
my son painted a snake if you even care
Just noticed the similarity between the shape of the Ivory soap bottle in this early Robert Gober drawing & the silhouette of his iconic self-portrait in wedding dress and now I can't unsee it
Those who dismiss Warhol as merely artist of Campbell's Soup Cans are likely unaware he spent a decade as a commercial illustrator before becoming a Pop artist in 1960s. That's where he learned many techniques he would later use; note similarity of color/B&W split between ad & later Marilyn painting
