@bill-arning.bsky.social
Gallerist and Founder of Bill Arning Exhibitions in beautiful historic Kinderhook NY, I have been making exhibitions happen since 1984 and see no reason to stop now, Chicken keeper, Opera Obsessive and sober and active in 12 step programs since 2001
Updating my art writer resume but with 45 years of writing ion art and artists even updating the CV exhausted me
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Updating my art writer resume but with 45 years of writing ion art and artists even updating the CV exhausted me
anyone noticed that younger gay figurative artists are all avoiding using “gay” or “queer” in their statements and press releases in what i assume is a strategy to avoid collapsing under the market dominance of Langberg and Fratino?
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
anyone noticed that younger gay figurative artists are all avoiding using “gay” or “queer” in their statements and press releases in what i assume is a strategy to avoid collapsing under the market dominance of Langberg and Fratino?
Deborah Bright
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Deborah Bright
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
Sir Lady, 2025
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
Proud to be a New Yorker even if I have not lived full time in the city since 1999 (Cambridge, Houston and the Hudson Valley)
A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Proud to be a New Yorker even if I have not lived full time in the city since 1999 (Cambridge, Houston and the Hudson Valley)
when I was growing up culturally music movements defined the passage of time, I started with a Donovan obsession and this list ends with Belle and Sebastian and their ilk. While there is still new music I care about like Orville Peck and St Vincent I can’t think of movements after the early 2000
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
when I was growing up culturally music movements defined the passage of time, I started with a Donovan obsession and this list ends with Belle and Sebastian and their ilk. While there is still new music I care about like Orville Peck and St Vincent I can’t think of movements after the early 2000
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Drawing from 2023 (pen, colored pencil, and collage)
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Drawing from 2023 (pen, colored pencil, and collage)
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I realize this isn't breaking news but it's insane that voting has begun and Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — is straight-up refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, whose opponent is an alleged serial sexual abuser funded by Trump-allied billionaires
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I realize this isn't breaking news but it's insane that voting has begun and Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — is straight-up refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, whose opponent is an alleged serial sexual abuser funded by Trump-allied billionaires
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Art Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair
Art Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair
He replaces Clément Delépine, who announced his departure last month
www.theartnewspaper.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Art Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair
Just what I needed
Arches of the Bridge Stepping Out of Line by Paul Klee, 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137572
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137572
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Just what I needed
Skip Art for No Kings come see me tomorrow Sunday
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Skip Art for No Kings come see me tomorrow Sunday
Harrison Tenzer Octopus
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Harrison Tenzer Octopus
I was in my chicken coop, scraping poop off the roosting bars before heading to the train to go to the metropolitan opera tonight and hear the electrifying belle canto arias in La Sonnambula. Am i living in a Willa Cather story substituting the Hudson Valley for the plains of Nebraska ?
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I was in my chicken coop, scraping poop off the roosting bars before heading to the train to go to the metropolitan opera tonight and hear the electrifying belle canto arias in La Sonnambula. Am i living in a Willa Cather story substituting the Hudson Valley for the plains of Nebraska ?
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Anatomy Lesson No.82, 30x30, oil on linen, heading to Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
May 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Anatomy Lesson No.82, 30x30, oil on linen, heading to Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
First time visiting the Norman Rockwell museum which seems explicitly to celebrate all the civic virtues lost today
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
First time visiting the Norman Rockwell museum which seems explicitly to celebrate all the civic virtues lost today
opening day of seeking complexity
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
opening day of seeking complexity
My knee doctor in measuring whether a new knee would improve my life asked about my physical hobbies. I neglected to say seeing 50 gallery shows gave me immense pleasure on a New York afternoon but was hard on my joints. i ran out of steam after 20 and missed some good ones.
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My knee doctor in measuring whether a new knee would improve my life asked about my physical hobbies. I neglected to say seeing 50 gallery shows gave me immense pleasure on a New York afternoon but was hard on my joints. i ran out of steam after 20 and missed some good ones.
Opening Saturday October 4th, 3-5PM
October 4th-December 21 , 2025
Seeking Complexity
17 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
October 4th-December 21 , 2025
Seeking Complexity
17 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Opening Saturday October 4th, 3-5PM
October 4th-December 21 , 2025
Seeking Complexity
17 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
October 4th-December 21 , 2025
Seeking Complexity
17 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
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As adjunct to soon-to-open exhibition at the Whitney, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea has a concurrent show, "Surreal America," with some great works including: this absolute 🔥 Pavel Tchelitchew portrait of Fidelma Cadmus, sister of Paul Cadmus & sometime partner of Lincoln Kirstein
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
As adjunct to soon-to-open exhibition at the Whitney, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea has a concurrent show, "Surreal America," with some great works including: this absolute 🔥 Pavel Tchelitchew portrait of Fidelma Cadmus, sister of Paul Cadmus & sometime partner of Lincoln Kirstein
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We’re building a movement to fight for the working class — and to take our power back.
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We’re building a movement to fight for the working class — and to take our power back.
Totally fascinating read
I have read many conversations between artists, and this one with Bjarne
Melgaard and Nicole Eisenman, from 2024, has to be one of the best, and most wild, rides.
www.interviewmagazine.com/art/my-caree...
Melgaard and Nicole Eisenman, from 2024, has to be one of the best, and most wild, rides.
www.interviewmagazine.com/art/my-caree...
"My Career Is Down the Drain": Bjarne Melgaard, in Conversation With Nicole Eisenman
"I've been portrayed as the biggest drugged out, money-hungry whore ever to exist in Scandinavian art," says Melgaard, whose works are currently on view in "Barney Does it All" at Farschou Gallery.
www.interviewmagazine.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Totally fascinating read
Finally started posting on Substack
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Bill Arning is a contemporary art advisor, gallerist curator and critic based in the Hudson Valley
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September 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Finally started posting on Substack
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