Alex Zivkovic
@alexzivkovic.bsky.social
art, architecture, and media historian
postdoc @ Lauder Center, Met
incoming Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY
thinking about modernism, ecology, queer surrealism
http://aleksazivkovic.com
postdoc @ Lauder Center, Met
incoming Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY
thinking about modernism, ecology, queer surrealism
http://aleksazivkovic.com
gorgeous!! and congrats, such wonderful interlocutors praising your book! Can’t wait to read
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
gorgeous!! and congrats, such wonderful interlocutors praising your book! Can’t wait to read
Ah I didn’t! Thanks!! even weirder
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ah I didn’t! Thanks!! even weirder
this series is always so bizarre! but I never noticed the title on this one, interesting name.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this series is always so bizarre! but I never noticed the title on this one, interesting name.
so excited to read the first half of pieces!
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
so excited to read the first half of pieces!
another member of the semi-patchy beard game club!
Frédéric Bazille, photographed by Etienne Carjat, 1865 & self portrait, 1865-6
Frédéric Bazille, photographed by Etienne Carjat, 1865 & self portrait, 1865-6
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
another member of the semi-patchy beard game club!
Frédéric Bazille, photographed by Etienne Carjat, 1865 & self portrait, 1865-6
Frédéric Bazille, photographed by Etienne Carjat, 1865 & self portrait, 1865-6
I see this sketch continuing on her robotics kick (following the incredible installation at SFMOMA), evoking the Boston Dynamic “dog”
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I see this sketch continuing on her robotics kick (following the incredible installation at SFMOMA), evoking the Boston Dynamic “dog”
if it makes you feel better, I may not get to see the main show, sadly! I got a hotel right by it and everything but it’s closed today, my one free day of this conference 😢
but had to see this! blown away, truly
but had to see this! blown away, truly
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
if it makes you feel better, I may not get to see the main show, sadly! I got a hotel right by it and everything but it’s closed today, my one free day of this conference 😢
but had to see this! blown away, truly
but had to see this! blown away, truly
the centrality of the horse, the care and management of the living being (and dead), the sculpture’s resulting hybridity collapsing man and horse—just incredible
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
the centrality of the horse, the care and management of the living being (and dead), the sculpture’s resulting hybridity collapsing man and horse—just incredible
one of my more experimental and short essays: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Leonor Fini’s Surrealist Object and Other Marvelous Precipitates of Desire | Modernism / Modernity Print+
"Objet trouvé par Leonor Fini. Couverture d’un livre ayant séjourné dans la mer.” Like all object labels, this label tells a story. The first sentence is true. The second, a seductive fiction. The artist Leonor Fini did find this object, but not on a beach. Though seemingly encrusted with mud and marine matter, it has never spent time in a sea. Instead, it is a German-language
modernismmodernity.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
one of my more experimental and short essays: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
the phrase “watery grave” evokes Leonor Fini’s found object of a fake Christopher Columbus logbook, exhibited as “Cover of a book that has spent time in the sea”
on this Indigenous People’s Day (formerly Columbus Day), read my essay on the true story of this object and its anti-imperial politics!
on this Indigenous People’s Day (formerly Columbus Day), read my essay on the true story of this object and its anti-imperial politics!
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
the phrase “watery grave” evokes Leonor Fini’s found object of a fake Christopher Columbus logbook, exhibited as “Cover of a book that has spent time in the sea”
on this Indigenous People’s Day (formerly Columbus Day), read my essay on the true story of this object and its anti-imperial politics!
on this Indigenous People’s Day (formerly Columbus Day), read my essay on the true story of this object and its anti-imperial politics!
per your recommendation, we went yesterday just under the wire!
was so enamored by the different media but the consistent use of bright accents & loved his depictions of Paris & these two west African figurines
was so enamored by the different media but the consistent use of bright accents & loved his depictions of Paris & these two west African figurines
September 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
per your recommendation, we went yesterday just under the wire!
was so enamored by the different media but the consistent use of bright accents & loved his depictions of Paris & these two west African figurines
was so enamored by the different media but the consistent use of bright accents & loved his depictions of Paris & these two west African figurines
I am so excited to go to this show when I’m in LA! So brilliant
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I am so excited to go to this show when I’m in LA! So brilliant