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Art historian Jeff Wassmann surveys the era of the pioneering, if apocryphal, Leipzig modernist and sewerage engineer Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841-1898).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Dieter_Wassmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Dieter_Wassmann
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“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
—Marcel Proust
—Marcel Proust
Mushrooms in the Gespensterwald Nienhagen 🍄🟫
(that’s the Baltic peeking through on the left).
(that’s the Baltic peeking through on the left).
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Mushrooms in the Gespensterwald Nienhagen 🍄🟫
(that’s the Baltic peeking through on the left).
(that’s the Baltic peeking through on the left).
An acorn-fed pig is often described as an olive tree with legs. The fat is rich in healthy oleic acid, similar to that found in olive oil, making the olive tree a fair comparison.
Ivernack, Mecklenburg
Ivernack, Mecklenburg
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
An acorn-fed pig is often described as an olive tree with legs. The fat is rich in healthy oleic acid, similar to that found in olive oil, making the olive tree a fair comparison.
Ivernack, Mecklenburg
Ivernack, Mecklenburg
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Wes Anderson will recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas, with a dozen iconic shadow boxes displayed behind glass.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wes Anderson will recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas, with a dozen iconic shadow boxes displayed behind glass.
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Twelve-o’clock noon in the Jacobskirche Weimar bell tower.
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Twelve-o’clock noon in the Jacobskirche Weimar bell tower.
Back in Weimar… of course, Weimar.
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Back in Weimar… of course, Weimar.
‘War-ravaged’ Portland airport a couple weeks ago.
SOUND UP (the pianist singing I Can’t Tell You Why by The Eagles is pretty good… and apropos.)
SOUND UP (the pianist singing I Can’t Tell You Why by The Eagles is pretty good… and apropos.)
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
‘War-ravaged’ Portland airport a couple weeks ago.
SOUND UP (the pianist singing I Can’t Tell You Why by The Eagles is pretty good… and apropos.)
SOUND UP (the pianist singing I Can’t Tell You Why by The Eagles is pretty good… and apropos.)
My kids, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2011
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
My kids, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2011
Photography’s Next Generation, Bursting Out of the Frames www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/a...
Photography’s Next Generation, Bursting Out of the Frames
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September 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Photography’s Next Generation, Bursting Out of the Frames www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/a...
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I wrote a book on Van Gogh, industrial pollution & climate change that I'm really proud of & connects his art to some of our most pressing concerns today yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Van Gogh and the End of Nature
A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh’s profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world to...
yalebooks.yale.edu
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I wrote a book on Van Gogh, industrial pollution & climate change that I'm really proud of & connects his art to some of our most pressing concerns today yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
“We’ve spent years working on this and pulled in lots of experts and conservators,” D’Alessandro said. “But there’s still a lot that is a mystery. That is a wonderful thing about his work.”
Man Ray’s Mysteries, in Glorious Bloom at the Met www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/a...
Man Ray’s Mysteries, in Glorious Bloom at the Met www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/a...
Man Ray’s Mysteries, in Glorious Bloom at the Met
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“We’ve spent years working on this and pulled in lots of experts and conservators,” D’Alessandro said. “But there’s still a lot that is a mystery. That is a wonderful thing about his work.”
Man Ray’s Mysteries, in Glorious Bloom at the Met www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/a...
Man Ray’s Mysteries, in Glorious Bloom at the Met www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/a...
Old growth stumps, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Old growth stumps, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon.
19 August 2025. Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
19 August 2025. Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Vancouver to Portland.
August 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Vancouver to Portland.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Bone Box, 2007.
Spending a few days in Vancouver dodging the raindrops but managed to fit in a morning at the Museum of Anthropology.
Spending a few days in Vancouver dodging the raindrops but managed to fit in a morning at the Museum of Anthropology.
August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Bone Box, 2007.
Spending a few days in Vancouver dodging the raindrops but managed to fit in a morning at the Museum of Anthropology.
Spending a few days in Vancouver dodging the raindrops but managed to fit in a morning at the Museum of Anthropology.
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Eugène Atget (12. Februar 1857 – 4. August 1927)
"Das beispiellose Aufgehen in der Sache, verbunden mit der höchsten Präzision, […] Atget war ein Schauspieler, der, angewidert vom Betrieb, die Maske abwischte und dann daran ging, auch die Wirklichkeit abzuschminken."
Walter Benjamin, 1931. 🧵
"Das beispiellose Aufgehen in der Sache, verbunden mit der höchsten Präzision, […] Atget war ein Schauspieler, der, angewidert vom Betrieb, die Maske abwischte und dann daran ging, auch die Wirklichkeit abzuschminken."
Walter Benjamin, 1931. 🧵
August 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Eugène Atget (12. Februar 1857 – 4. August 1927)
"Das beispiellose Aufgehen in der Sache, verbunden mit der höchsten Präzision, […] Atget war ein Schauspieler, der, angewidert vom Betrieb, die Maske abwischte und dann daran ging, auch die Wirklichkeit abzuschminken."
Walter Benjamin, 1931. 🧵
"Das beispiellose Aufgehen in der Sache, verbunden mit der höchsten Präzision, […] Atget war ein Schauspieler, der, angewidert vom Betrieb, die Maske abwischte und dann daran ging, auch die Wirklichkeit abzuschminken."
Walter Benjamin, 1931. 🧵
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Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.
The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles
The actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history.
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July 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.
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📸 #Reminder: The CfP for the 3rd Essen Symposium for Photography is open until 31 July!
🗓 4 - 6 Febr 2026 | Essen Center for Photography
🔍 fotozentrum-essen.de
🏢Org. (a.o.): @schalkewins.bsky.social @steffensiegel.bsky.social @mrautzenberg.bsky.social @folkwang-uni.bsky.social
🗓 4 - 6 Febr 2026 | Essen Center for Photography
🔍 fotozentrum-essen.de
🏢Org. (a.o.): @schalkewins.bsky.social @steffensiegel.bsky.social @mrautzenberg.bsky.social @folkwang-uni.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Hayley Millar Baker, Eternity the Butterfly, 2025 (video).
The Veil, Hannah Presley, curator. Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne.
The Veil, Hannah Presley, curator. Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne.
June 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hayley Millar Baker, Eternity the Butterfly, 2025 (video).
The Veil, Hannah Presley, curator. Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne.
The Veil, Hannah Presley, curator. Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne.
Jeanine Leane, Seeds of Hope, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 2025.
Professor Leane is a Wiradjuri poet and academic from south-west New South Wales.
Professor Leane is a Wiradjuri poet and academic from south-west New South Wales.
June 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Jeanine Leane, Seeds of Hope, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 2025.
Professor Leane is a Wiradjuri poet and academic from south-west New South Wales.
Professor Leane is a Wiradjuri poet and academic from south-west New South Wales.
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Juneteenth
Enviously ageless artist Betye Saar, 98, celebrates the resilience and progress of Black Americans in her beautifully poignant work. Take a look...
Enviously ageless artist Betye Saar, 98, celebrates the resilience and progress of Black Americans in her beautifully poignant work. Take a look...
Artist Betye Saar tells ghost stories
Betye Saar has a storyteller's eloquence. She creates hauntingly beautiful works of art that seduce us into thinking deeply about racism.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Juneteenth
Enviously ageless artist Betye Saar, 98, celebrates the resilience and progress of Black Americans in her beautifully poignant work. Take a look...
Enviously ageless artist Betye Saar, 98, celebrates the resilience and progress of Black Americans in her beautifully poignant work. Take a look...
Lou Picek of Main Street Antiques and Art, West Branch, Iowa, celebrates 50 years in the business this Friday at 10:00 am. If you’re west of the Mississippi, do stop in (I’ve been stopping in for 40 of those years). Lou is also a widely collected painter, with work in the American Folk Art Museum.
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Lou Picek of Main Street Antiques and Art, West Branch, Iowa, celebrates 50 years in the business this Friday at 10:00 am. If you’re west of the Mississippi, do stop in (I’ve been stopping in for 40 of those years). Lou is also a widely collected painter, with work in the American Folk Art Museum.
Still in Iowa. Churnin’ through the cherries. 🍒
June 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Still in Iowa. Churnin’ through the cherries. 🍒
Iowa. June 10, 2025.
June 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Iowa. June 10, 2025.
West Liberty, Iowa
June 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
West Liberty, Iowa