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
Here we discuss #OWS’s impact on our approach to the practice of art history and ask what resources Occupy's unfinished project can offer a moment dominated by the dawn of a second Trump administration.
July 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Here we discuss #OWS’s impact on our approach to the practice of art history and ask what resources Occupy's unfinished project can offer a moment dominated by the dawn of a second Trump administration.
The three of us were fellows at the Whitney ISP when #OccupyWallStreet broke out, working on manuscripts that have since been published @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The three of us were fellows at the Whitney ISP when #OccupyWallStreet broke out, working on manuscripts that have since been published @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
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
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...
When speaking of the Whitney Independent Study Program, the former Whitney director Adam Weinberg emphasized the “independent” part. Now under new management, the ISP is being so surveilled by museum staff that the curatorial and critical cohorts are cancelling their end-of-year events in protest.
May 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
When speaking of the Whitney Independent Study Program, the former Whitney director Adam Weinberg emphasized the “independent” part. Now under new management, the ISP is being so surveilled by museum staff that the curatorial and critical cohorts are cancelling their end-of-year events in protest.
Columbia admin just sent out an email to alumni: “Sharing Progress on our Priorities.” Not only are they succumbing to blackmail, they are claiming the extortion was their idea.
March 22, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Columbia admin just sent out an email to alumni: “Sharing Progress on our Priorities.” Not only are they succumbing to blackmail, they are claiming the extortion was their idea.
My posts from when the New Yorker first hired Jackson Arn and the collective response was “Who?”
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My posts from when the New Yorker first hired Jackson Arn and the collective response was “Who?”
Shocker: An organization predicated on siphoning off funding from public education is now saying that higher education costs too much.
March 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Shocker: An organization predicated on siphoning off funding from public education is now saying that higher education costs too much.
Institutional Fatigue in the Twenty-First Century, panel at #CAA113. Has institutional critique run out of steam? with Alexander Alberro, Samuel Shapiro, E. C. Feiss, Brianne Chapelle, Philip Kelleher, and Luke Skrebowski.
February 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Institutional Fatigue in the Twenty-First Century, panel at #CAA113. Has institutional critique run out of steam? with Alexander Alberro, Samuel Shapiro, E. C. Feiss, Brianne Chapelle, Philip Kelleher, and Luke Skrebowski.
"Writing Art History After Occupy" -- I'll be in talking with Lindsay Caplan and Nadja Millner-Larsen on Thursday 2/13 at Printed Matter in NYC. A bit of counter-programming to that week's #CAA113 conference.
January 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Writing Art History After Occupy" -- I'll be in talking with Lindsay Caplan and Nadja Millner-Larsen on Thursday 2/13 at Printed Matter in NYC. A bit of counter-programming to that week's #CAA113 conference.
Missing from the Delphine Seyrig retrospective at Metrograph is Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie’s “Pull My Daisy” (1959), where she plays the unnamed wife. I recently rewatched “Daisy” and—with apologies to Kerouac, Ginsberg, et al.—found her to be the most interesting part.
January 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Missing from the Delphine Seyrig retrospective at Metrograph is Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie’s “Pull My Daisy” (1959), where she plays the unnamed wife. I recently rewatched “Daisy” and—with apologies to Kerouac, Ginsberg, et al.—found her to be the most interesting part.
Starting class today with 'In Dreams'.
January 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Starting class today with 'In Dreams'.
Nam June Paik: “George Maciunas wanted to be reincarnated as a frog the most ecologically sane of all creatures.” In this 1993 print by Paik, Maciunas seems to get his wish.
January 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Nam June Paik: “George Maciunas wanted to be reincarnated as a frog the most ecologically sane of all creatures.” In this 1993 print by Paik, Maciunas seems to get his wish.
Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
A young Naomi Beckwith (seated, center) at the headquarters of Mark Dion’s Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group (1992-93), part of “Culture in Action: New Public Art in Chicago,” curated by Mary Jane Jacob.
December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
A young Naomi Beckwith (seated, center) at the headquarters of Mark Dion’s Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group (1992-93), part of “Culture in Action: New Public Art in Chicago,” curated by Mary Jane Jacob.
Still the acknowledgment I’m most proud of. Rest in Peace Lorraine O’Grady.
December 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Still the acknowledgment I’m most proud of. Rest in Peace Lorraine O’Grady.
New York book launch for “Fluxus Administration,” Friday, October 18, 6:30-8:00pm, Emily Harvey Foundation. Thanks to Jordan Carter for joining as a discussant.
September 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
New York book launch for “Fluxus Administration,” Friday, October 18, 6:30-8:00pm, Emily Harvey Foundation. Thanks to Jordan Carter for joining as a discussant.
“Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork” is officially out today! Thank you to @uchicagopress @monograph_studio and everyone else who helped to make this book possible.
July 9, 2024 at 5:11 PM
“Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork” is officially out today! Thank you to @uchicagopress @monograph_studio and everyone else who helped to make this book possible.
Advance copy of “Fluxus Administration.” The illustrations of Maciunas’s paperwork make for a really beautiful book! Thanks to @mngrph and @uchicagopress for the stellar design and affordable price ($40). Please encourage your local/institutional libraries to pre-order a copy.
May 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Advance copy of “Fluxus Administration.” The illustrations of Maciunas’s paperwork make for a really beautiful book! Thanks to @mngrph and @uchicagopress for the stellar design and affordable price ($40). Please encourage your local/institutional libraries to pre-order a copy.
I wrote a short piece about Artforum and institutions, “On Collaboration,” that’s just been published by October. A non-paywall pdf is available here: tinyurl.com/35x87csa
April 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I wrote a short piece about Artforum and institutions, “On Collaboration,” that’s just been published by October. A non-paywall pdf is available here: tinyurl.com/35x87csa
And finally, my thanks to Robert Slifkin for his advance review of “Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork,” coming out in June 2024 @uchicagopress
January 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM
And finally, my thanks to Robert Slifkin for his advance review of “Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork,” coming out in June 2024 @uchicagopress
Grateful to Aaron Shkuda for his advance review of “Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork,” coming out in June 2024 @uchicagopress
January 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Grateful to Aaron Shkuda for his advance review of “Fluxus Administration: George Maciunas and the Art of Paperwork,” coming out in June 2024 @uchicagopress