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Bart Gazzola
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#artcriticfromhell | arts writer & curator | I take pictures of what's left when the world ends | bartgazzola.com | curatednow.ca
Ambassador Bridge and Zug Island, 1968, Russ Marshall

A view I used to be very familiar with, when I lived in the Windsor / Detroit region.
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nu Assis, ca. 1930, Dora Maar
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Winter Night, 1993, Richard Gorman

On a lone winter evening, when the frost has wrought a silence.

-- John Keats
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Supermarket Car Park, El Paso, Texas, 2000, Nadav Kander
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Devastation, 1941: East End, Burnt Paper Warehouse, Graham Sutherland, 1941
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Triphammer Bridge, Susan Rothenberg, 1974
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
An image from a few years ago : I'm in front of a fine Attila Richard Lukacs painting that is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Lukacs was a previously featured Artist You Need To Know in Art is Hell's continuing series. You can read that here:
artishell.com/attila-richa...
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Rayograph, 1923, Man Ray
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You have one more week to visit TAMARA SUTTON | NEW PAINTINGS in the main space at Mahtay Café & Lounge in Downtown St. Catharines This exhibition will be coming down a week from today.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Olga Gurazova, from her Scars of Independence Series, 2014 - 2019
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A selection of images by Monika Mostowik.

"The Polish photographer... stages strangely captivating scenes using ball-jointed dolls. She designs their clothing, wigs and make-up, and photographs them at deserted locations."
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday Artist You Need To Know is LORNA SIMPSON.

Image : Visible Stars, 2022, from the series Sky Pin Ups

Learn more about her art and career here : www.artishell.com/lorna-simpson/
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today's Artists You Need To Know are FISCHLI/WEISS (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).

Image : Sausage Fashion Show from Wurstserie (Sausage Series), 1979

Learn more about Fischli/Weiss and their unique artistic practice here : artishell.com/peter-fischl...
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
...when I shared this image, years ago, of myself with Lady, Sputnik and Marco Polo Potato (left to right) and friend commented that they didn't know that arts journalists got that much pussy, ahem.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Nickel Belt, 1928, Franklin Carmichael
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
...a throwback to 2018.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
...a throwback to 2022.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Self portrait with blue sketchbook, n.d., Léon Spilliaert (1881 - 1946)
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
La noce de juin, n/d., Jean Paul Lemieux (1904-90)

This always reminds me of the 'flashback' scenes in John Greyson's film Lillies.....
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bodhi, 1995, Alex Cameron
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The life of Barbie and Ken in the Soviet Union by Lara Vychuzhanina, 2017
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Five Hot Dogs, 1961, Wayne Thiebaud
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Balloons, 2010, Vladimir Arkhipov
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM