Art Viewer
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art historian with eclectic interests
early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
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Do you actually know what Disability Justice means, or are you putting together "Disability" & "Justice," 2 words you know the meaning of separately, & assuming its meaning? 👀
If so, PLEASE take just a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽
If so, PLEASE take just a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽
As a registered social worker for 15 years until my regulatory body failed to call for a ceasefire after witnessing genocide for all of 2024, a writer who is extensively published on equity issues, & a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman on Turtle Island, we must discuss Disability Justice! 👀
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November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Do you actually know what Disability Justice means, or are you putting together "Disability" & "Justice," 2 words you know the meaning of separately, & assuming its meaning? 👀
If so, PLEASE take just a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽
If so, PLEASE take just a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽
Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch on Route 66 with a sound of chimes, birds, trucks, and train. Light illuminates the bottles like stained glass in the peaceful grove. I’d like to think Duchamp and John Cage would have recognized their descendant. Begun 2000. Elmer Long died in 2019.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch on Route 66 with a sound of chimes, birds, trucks, and train. Light illuminates the bottles like stained glass in the peaceful grove. I’d like to think Duchamp and John Cage would have recognized their descendant. Begun 2000. Elmer Long died in 2019.
Joshua Tree, not in Joshua Tree. In case you don’t know, they grow over a wide swath of Southern California and can even be found in some lucky people’s front yards. I’ll never tire of California. Redwood trees to Joshua trees, what a range of wonders!
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Joshua Tree, not in Joshua Tree. In case you don’t know, they grow over a wide swath of Southern California and can even be found in some lucky people’s front yards. I’ll never tire of California. Redwood trees to Joshua trees, what a range of wonders!
I was charmed by these tiny houses atop wooden spikes in CAAM’s Reimagining the Black Interior show made of its permanent collection.
John Outterbridge, 22 Rhymes in a Row, 1977-78. USC, California African American Museum.
John Outterbridge, 22 Rhymes in a Row, 1977-78. USC, California African American Museum.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I was charmed by these tiny houses atop wooden spikes in CAAM’s Reimagining the Black Interior show made of its permanent collection.
John Outterbridge, 22 Rhymes in a Row, 1977-78. USC, California African American Museum.
John Outterbridge, 22 Rhymes in a Row, 1977-78. USC, California African American Museum.
Some of John Outterbridge’s (b. 1933 North Carolina) first memories were of his mother ironing laundry for White people with a number of irons heated on the stove and a towel wrapped around their hot handles. “First Poet, Olivia” 1993. California African American Museum.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Some of John Outterbridge’s (b. 1933 North Carolina) first memories were of his mother ironing laundry for White people with a number of irons heated on the stove and a towel wrapped around their hot handles. “First Poet, Olivia” 1993. California African American Museum.
@cortezmasto.senate.gov I spent hours working to cure ballots for you. Never again.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
@cortezmasto.senate.gov I spent hours working to cure ballots for you. Never again.
Fuck You
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November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My husband: “Ok, Birth of Venus is his famous one but didn’t Botticelli also paint the Springtime Unicorn Party one?” He has combined in his mind the Primavera with the Unicorn tapestries, which, I’ve got to say, isn’t a half bad idea.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
My husband: “Ok, Birth of Venus is his famous one but didn’t Botticelli also paint the Springtime Unicorn Party one?” He has combined in his mind the Primavera with the Unicorn tapestries, which, I’ve got to say, isn’t a half bad idea.
Call your senators now. Californians, Schiff’s voice mails are all full so email. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Call your senators now. Californians, Schiff’s voice mails are all full so email. Now.
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"Gauguin's model for this painting was likely Pau'ura a Tai, a 14 y.o. girl whom the artist described as his 'native wife' while living in French Tahiti in the 1890s.
It may be response to death of their daughter (!)."
Museum text calls these "sexual relationships"
#ArtSky
Poèmes Barbares, 1896
It may be response to death of their daughter (!)."
Museum text calls these "sexual relationships"
#ArtSky
Poèmes Barbares, 1896
October 6, 2024 at 2:33 PM
"Gauguin's model for this painting was likely Pau'ura a Tai, a 14 y.o. girl whom the artist described as his 'native wife' while living in French Tahiti in the 1890s.
It may be response to death of their daughter (!)."
Museum text calls these "sexual relationships"
#ArtSky
Poèmes Barbares, 1896
It may be response to death of their daughter (!)."
Museum text calls these "sexual relationships"
#ArtSky
Poèmes Barbares, 1896
The weight of it, yes, the monumentality at 9.5 x 11.5ft, produces overwhelmed silence. Was the cotton worth it?
Leonard Drew, No. 363, 2023. In MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Leonard Drew, No. 363, 2023. In MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The weight of it, yes, the monumentality at 9.5 x 11.5ft, produces overwhelmed silence. Was the cotton worth it?
Leonard Drew, No. 363, 2023. In MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Leonard Drew, No. 363, 2023. In MONUMENTS at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Look, actual historical revisionism via monument removal
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Look, actual historical revisionism via monument removal
For example I’d never seen the Bone-Grass Boy series made during and about the AIDS crisis of Ken Gonzalez-Day’s Romancita alter ego living is up in Spanish-US colonial history made in the 90s. At USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
For example I’d never seen the Bone-Grass Boy series made during and about the AIDS crisis of Ken Gonzalez-Day’s Romancita alter ego living is up in Spanish-US colonial history made in the 90s. At USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles
USC has a wonderful retrospective of Ken Gonzalez-Day at the Fisher Museum that’s well worth the trip. It’s got best hits and deep cuts of an artist working hard to reveal American histories and what we hide.
![Untitled (After Jan Jansz, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America, ca. 1535 [Rifksmuseum]),2021
Another Land: Decolonial Drawings series
Pencil, watercolor and archival ink on rag paper
Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America, 1535
Jan Jansz Mostaert (1475-1555)
Oil on canvas
Collection of and image courtesy of
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:atzseybj6kr4tvtvp73bqyfh/bafkreiay6q4p2byzih2xy6mzizf54g3wm53paidflfl5pbkpjj625lzlvi@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
USC has a wonderful retrospective of Ken Gonzalez-Day at the Fisher Museum that’s well worth the trip. It’s got best hits and deep cuts of an artist working hard to reveal American histories and what we hide.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Kara Walker employs the classical iconography of the defeated warrior: Jackson’s limp arm hangs uselessly dragging a sword it can no longer lift. He is the agent of his own demise, like the Confederacy
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kara Walker employs the classical iconography of the defeated warrior: Jackson’s limp arm hangs uselessly dragging a sword it can no longer lift. He is the agent of his own demise, like the Confederacy
In addition to the monumental reconstructed equestrian Stonewall Jackson sculpture, Kara Walker also refashioned its stone plinth. The inscription faces down eith painted stars. The angels beheaded have a Black woman silhouetted, the other a hydra of sorts. The Brick, Los Angeles
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In addition to the monumental reconstructed equestrian Stonewall Jackson sculpture, Kara Walker also refashioned its stone plinth. The inscription faces down eith painted stars. The angels beheaded have a Black woman silhouetted, the other a hydra of sorts. The Brick, Los Angeles
The mood at MONUMENTS (Geffen Contemp. at MOCA, Los Angeles) is quiet, suppressed, on edge as befits galleries of Confederate imagery dismantled, marked, and yes, even intact as designed. Rejoinders by Black artists swing back but the exhibition does not declare the fight over. We have not won yet.
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The mood at MONUMENTS (Geffen Contemp. at MOCA, Los Angeles) is quiet, suppressed, on edge as befits galleries of Confederate imagery dismantled, marked, and yes, even intact as designed. Rejoinders by Black artists swing back but the exhibition does not declare the fight over. We have not won yet.
The aptly named artist Flora Yukhnovich takes a Titian turn in “Bacchanalia” at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The aptly named artist Flora Yukhnovich takes a Titian turn in “Bacchanalia” at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Many people ask what to do with the removed Confederate monuments. Like Nazi detritus, their historical status is low. The cheaply made items are a dime a dozen but their impact remains uncalculatedly terrible. Kara Walker’s refashioning of a false hero into truth provides a productive way forward.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Many people ask what to do with the removed Confederate monuments. Like Nazi detritus, their historical status is low. The cheaply made items are a dime a dozen but their impact remains uncalculatedly terrible. Kara Walker’s refashioning of a false hero into truth provides a productive way forward.
The White sculptor’s name of the original Stonewall Jackson monument in Charlottesville neatly stricken; Kara Walker’s artistic authorship gracefully inscribed at the base. Unmanned Drone, 2025. At The Brick, LA
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The White sculptor’s name of the original Stonewall Jackson monument in Charlottesville neatly stricken; Kara Walker’s artistic authorship gracefully inscribed at the base. Unmanned Drone, 2025. At The Brick, LA
Kara Walker employs the classical iconography of the defeated warrior: Jackson’s limp arm hangs uselessly dragging a sword it can no longer lift. He is the agent of his own demise, like the Confederacy
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kara Walker employs the classical iconography of the defeated warrior: Jackson’s limp arm hangs uselessly dragging a sword it can no longer lift. He is the agent of his own demise, like the Confederacy
Tremendous achievement by Kara Walker in dismantling and reconstructing the Charlottesville monument to Stonewall Jackson. Its howling self-destructive demise is on full view at The Brick in Los Angeles. Now titled “Unmanned Drone” (2025)
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Tremendous achievement by Kara Walker in dismantling and reconstructing the Charlottesville monument to Stonewall Jackson. Its howling self-destructive demise is on full view at The Brick in Los Angeles. Now titled “Unmanned Drone” (2025)
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New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com
Yes! Women read and wrote in the European Middle Ages! Stop transposing US chattel slavery practices to an imagined Middle Ages!
Is that the same Middle Ages that gave us Hildegard von Bingen and literally thousands of nuns who could read and write, often in several languages?
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes! Women read and wrote in the European Middle Ages! Stop transposing US chattel slavery practices to an imagined Middle Ages!