Robin Cembalest
@rcembalest.bsky.social
Journalist, educator, Instagrammer, former ARTnews editor, SVA faculty. I teach writing and career skills to art professionals. Find my upcoming free workshops at RobinCembalest.com!
Rest in power Nona Faustine, fearless and beloved photographer who made history visible, using her body as content and tool
Yale Center for British Art reopens with newly conserved Louis Kahn building, reinstalled collections galleries, & J.M.W. Turner & Tracey Emin shows, Emin neon in lobby
“Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form” unites art by the Afro-Brazilian sculptor & spiritual leader (1917-2013), who reimagined Candomblé ritual objects as artworks in their own right, with works by artists with shared interests in African visual languages @elmuseo.bsky.social
"(Re) Generations": Howardena Pindell, Byron Kim & Rina Banerjee select works from @newyork.asiasociety.org collections to situate their new & existing works.
Plastic fantastic: Borinquen Gallo with her art made from caution tape, bags, & more at New York’s wonderful Materials for the Arts @mftanyc.bsky.social
Demanding space and dethroning the male “genius”: @debkass with her reunited “The Art History Paintings,” created 1989-92, at Salon 94
Yasmin Ramirez & @arlenedavila.bsky.social, editors of “Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art”, at their book launch with Lee Quinones, an artist featured in the volume, with work by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz on screen @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social. Groundbreaking survey published by @dukepress.bsky.social
Keeping it real: John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres celebrate their 4-decade collab creating life-cast portraits at their opening at James Fuentes. Kevin, subject of “Kevin in Thought,” strikes a pose with his likeness from 1988.
Finally attended one of @rcembalest.bsky.social’s legendary social media talks🌟 Whatever the digital landscape evolves into, it’s always important to be prepared, well-informed, and to leverage the tools at our disposal to create both informational and experiential content.
Using Augmented Reality to visualize virtual versions of “The Gates,” Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s iconic Central Park installation, 20 years later, via @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social Models, drawings, photos of the original 23-mile installation featuring 7,503 Gates are at The Shed
Works by women artists that look like they could have been made yesterday—but weren’t 🏰 Brenda Miller 1970s sisal wall sculpture at Zürcher 🪺 Lucia Nogueira 1988 at Luhring Augustine 🪢 Juanita Guccione 1940s Surrealism at Lincoln Glenn #️⃣ Susan Fortgang 1981 impastoed gridded painting at Firestone
Free workshop just posted! 🖍️ Promotional Writing for Professional Artists ✏️ Hosted by @creativecapital.bsky.social 🎭 Learn to write with less stress and more success 📷 For creators of any genre 🎬 creative-capital.org/events/artis... 🎵
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Exploring the non-auditory dimensions of sound: Christine Sun Kim uses musical notation, infographics & language to share her Deaf lived experience in her survey show @whitney.org
There’s something funny about the female gaze: Alina Perez at Yossi Milo, Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben, Mira Schor at Lyles & King, Nicola Tyson at Petzel
Alone again, naturally: huge survey of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Smokin’ pots: 4 shows with cutting-edge ceramics Takuro Kuwata at Salon 94; Simphiwe Mbunyuza at Kordansky; Sarah Rosalena at Sargents Daughters, Rubén Ortiz-Torres @wallachartgallery.bsky.social
LA Chicanx en NYC: rafa esparza with Beatriz Cortez in their collab at Americas Society; Rubén Ortiz Torres at @wallachartgallery.bsky.social, Alfonso González Jr at Deitch (just closed)
POV: You quit Meta & joined @bsky.app, but you don’t know how it works. So I made a Bluesky onboarding guide for perplexed art professionals. Sign up for my newsletter to get it: robincembalest.com#newsletter
Befuddled by IG’s new changes? Stuck on your artist statement? Join my 3 FREE Artist Lab workshops with @creativecapital.bsky.social! Series begins Weds, 1/29. Sign up and learn more robincembalest.com/upcoming-wor...
How did I reinvent myself from ARTnews editor to Instagram influencer? How do I see so many shows? And what did I ask Warhol? Find out in my interview on The Art Pod! youtu.be/j6p5frgsgG8?...
Episode 24: Robin Cembalest
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Hi everyone! Looking forward to connecting & reconnecting & figuring out how to make best use of this app! 🐦
