Dean Sobel
@deansobel.bsky.social
Art, museums, music, cats; Queer
Artle #Artle November 27, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Artle – the daily art exploration game.
Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Artle #Artle November 27, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Artle #Artle November 25, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Artle – the daily art exploration game.
Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.
www.nga.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Artle #Artle November 25, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Reposted by Dean Sobel
I try to be as measured as possible on social media, but everyone in the art world—including art historians!—who in recent years has focused incessantly on "the contemporary" is at fault for developments like this. This is what happens when you fail to value history hyperallergic.com/1058320/why-...
Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
hyperallergic.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I try to be as measured as possible on social media, but everyone in the art world—including art historians!—who in recent years has focused incessantly on "the contemporary" is at fault for developments like this. This is what happens when you fail to value history hyperallergic.com/1058320/why-...
Artle #Artle October 28, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Artle – the daily art exploration game.
Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.
www.nga.gov
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Artle #Artle October 28, 2025 🎨 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle
Reposted by Dean Sobel
I’d forgotten that the last line of Crimp’s essay confirms the artists as modernists, given how important the exhibition now is in the history of postmodernism and visual art.
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’d forgotten that the last line of Crimp’s essay confirms the artists as modernists, given how important the exhibition now is in the history of postmodernism and visual art.
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetiti... #Aesthetics #Art #CognitiveScience via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Pleasure of Patterns in Art thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetiti... #Aesthetics #Art #CognitiveScience via @mitpress.bsky.social
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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July 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a...
How ‘Gay’ Became an Identity in Art
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July 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/a...
Reposted by Dean Sobel
NYC Folks - This show of AIDS activist archives opens on Wednesday at MoMA PS1 -resistance has a history - go support it!
Visual AIDS | Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather…
Visual AIDS presents an exhibition in MoMA PS1's Homeroom gallery that charts the early development and impact of h...
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April 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NYC Folks - This show of AIDS activist archives opens on Wednesday at MoMA PS1 -resistance has a history - go support it!
A Guided Tour: Inside the Splendor of the New Frick www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Frick Collection is Reopening. Here’s a Sneak Peek.
Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries.
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March 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
A Guided Tour: Inside the Splendor of the New Frick www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hey, MAGA; lay off the LGBTQAI+
January 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hey, MAGA; lay off the LGBTQAI+