Colby Chamberlain
@colbychamberlain.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
"By Knowles, with Knowles, through Knowles, we can locate models for collaboration and participation that remain tacky to the touch." www.artforum.com/columns/colb...
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Colby Chamberlain on Alison Knowles
www.artforum.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"By Knowles, with Knowles, through Knowles, we can locate models for collaboration and participation that remain tacky to the touch." www.artforum.com/columns/colb...
From MoMA and PS1 to the Cleveland Institute of Art, I keep finding myself at institutions that have benefited not just from Agnes Gund’s philanthropic support but her moral clarity and kindness. Rest in peace.
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From MoMA and PS1 to the Cleveland Institute of Art, I keep finding myself at institutions that have benefited not just from Agnes Gund’s philanthropic support but her moral clarity and kindness. Rest in peace.
I’m giving a talk at e-flux on Thursday 9/25, 7:30pm, “The Fluxhouse Cooperatives and the Future of the City.” The program will also include a performance of Maciunas’s “Solo for Violin” by Laura Ortman.
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
George Maciunas: Lecture and Performance - Events - e-flux
An evening dedicated to George Maciunas, featuring a lecture by Colby Chamberlain and a performance by Laura Ortman of work by Maciunas.
www.e-flux.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m giving a talk at e-flux on Thursday 9/25, 7:30pm, “The Fluxhouse Cooperatives and the Future of the City.” The program will also include a performance of Maciunas’s “Solo for Violin” by Laura Ortman.
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
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It’s Labor Day! In Baffler no. 59, Dana Kopel took us inside the fight to unionize at the New Museum, where management skimped on raises but found the money to hire union-busting consultants and lawyers.
thebaffler.com/salvos/again...
thebaffler.com/salvos/again...
Against Artsploitation | Dana Kopel
Somehow, the anti-austerity politics of our work didn’t apply to those of us working at the museum. Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation.
thebaffler.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s Labor Day! In Baffler no. 59, Dana Kopel took us inside the fight to unionize at the New Museum, where management skimped on raises but found the money to hire union-busting consultants and lawyers.
thebaffler.com/salvos/again...
thebaffler.com/salvos/again...
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Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
Apparently Rocky Balboa is once again at the top of the Philadelphia Museum steps. I wrote about the Balboa statue back in 2008 for an early issue of Triple Canopy.
tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the...
tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the...
Triple Canopy – The Balboa Effect by Colby Chamberlain
The Guggenheim Bilbao’s latest installation is a 1,400-pound bronze pun.
tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apparently Rocky Balboa is once again at the top of the Philadelphia Museum steps. I wrote about the Balboa statue back in 2008 for an early issue of Triple Canopy.
tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the...
tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the...
It works!!
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
It works!!
Did not expect to learn in the Christophe de Menil obit that Dash Snow and Uma Thurman are related.
August 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Did not expect to learn in the Christophe de Menil obit that Dash Snow and Uma Thurman are related.
The best way to think in dark times is to think with others. It has been sustaining to work with Lindsay Caplan and Nadja Millner-Larsen on “Writing Art History After Occupy,” first as a panel and now as a (no-paywall!) article in the journal October.
direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
Writing Art History After Occupy*
Abstract. This conversation explores the impact of Occupy Wall Street on the practice of art history. The authors of three recent books—on the new media art of Arte Programmata, the administrative aut...
direct.mit.edu
July 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The best way to think in dark times is to think with others. It has been sustaining to work with Lindsay Caplan and Nadja Millner-Larsen on “Writing Art History After Occupy,” first as a panel and now as a (no-paywall!) article in the journal October.
direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
Downtown Cleveland is filled with fantastic architecture (much of which is featured in the new Superman movie). Great news that this Art Deco Greyhound station will be given a new role.
www.artforum.com/news/clevela...
www.artforum.com/news/clevela...
Cleveland Artist to Transform Vintage Bus into Museum of the Great Migration
Cleveland-based artist Robert Louis Brandon Edwards is repurposing a 1947 Greyhound bus to serve as a museum commemorating the Great Migration.
www.artforum.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Downtown Cleveland is filled with fantastic architecture (much of which is featured in the new Superman movie). Great news that this Art Deco Greyhound station will be given a new role.
www.artforum.com/news/clevela...
www.artforum.com/news/clevela...
The next time College Art Association makes a call for conference panels, I’m going to propose a panel on the prevalence of redundant panels. #CAA114
July 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The next time College Art Association makes a call for conference panels, I’m going to propose a panel on the prevalence of redundant panels. #CAA114
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July 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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There are now three leftist academics with children who have become prominent Democratic politicians— Marxist economist Donald Harris; Gramsci scholar Joseph Buttigieg, and post-colonial theorist Mahmood Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There are now three leftist academics with children who have become prominent Democratic politicians— Marxist economist Donald Harris; Gramsci scholar Joseph Buttigieg, and post-colonial theorist Mahmood Mamdani.
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It’s wild how much politicians from Queens have shaped the national political scene in the past ten years. I’d read a take.
June 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It’s wild how much politicians from Queens have shaped the national political scene in the past ten years. I’d read a take.
Greedo ranked Cuomo first.
Somehow Palpatine has endorsed Cuomo.
June 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Greedo ranked Cuomo first.
“Where are the greatest museum seats in the world? Thanks for asking. The soft modernist squares in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna are hard to beat, as are the Ashmolean’s cosy circular sofas and benches.”
Whether it’s a plush sofa or a severe slab of wood, the choices museums make about seating can really affect how we see the art on the walls, writes Ben Street
What makes a good museum bench? | Apollo Magazine
Whether it’s a plush sofa or a severe slab of wood, the choices museums make about seating matter more than we think, writes Ben Street
buff.ly
June 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
“Where are the greatest museum seats in the world? Thanks for asking. The soft modernist squares in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna are hard to beat, as are the Ashmolean’s cosy circular sofas and benches.”
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The Baffler is seeking a new Senior Editor. Apply by July 11.
Senior Editor
The Baffler is seeking a senior editor to work closely with the editor in chief in determining the overall themes and direction of the magazine and website. With the editor in chief…
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June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The Baffler is seeking a new Senior Editor. Apply by July 11.
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Excited to be in conversation with the great Annie Ochmanek on Saturday, June 21, at 4pm at MoMA PS1.
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Excited to be in conversation with the great Annie Ochmanek on Saturday, June 21, at 4pm at MoMA PS1.
Just saw the obit for Amanda Feilding, whose love of parrots and drilling holes in skulls we covered @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/tu...
June 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Just saw the obit for Amanda Feilding, whose love of parrots and drilling holes in skulls we covered @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/tu...
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“The current avant-garde, such as it is, rightfully refuses to coalesce around any single identity, and it’s competing calls for abolition, access, decolonization, or care reflect the breadth and nuance of its viewpoints” Colby Chamberlain on Park McArthur.
May 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“The current avant-garde, such as it is, rightfully refuses to coalesce around any single identity, and it’s competing calls for abolition, access, decolonization, or care reflect the breadth and nuance of its viewpoints” Colby Chamberlain on Park McArthur.
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shout out to all the ISP folks who pulled out and for all these folks for writing this letter
www.e-flux.com/notes/674086...
www.e-flux.com/notes/674086...
To the Whitney Museum of American Art - Notes - e-flux
An open letter about the Whitney Museum’s censorship of the Whitney Independent Study Program.
www.e-flux.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
shout out to all the ISP folks who pulled out and for all these folks for writing this letter
www.e-flux.com/notes/674086...
www.e-flux.com/notes/674086...