Molly Burt-Westvig
@mollyburtwestvig.bsky.social
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Thought I’d introduce myself here by sharing some work.
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
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“What interests me abt the leftist documentaries 🇫🇷 + 🇯🇵 produced in the 1960s was their emphasis on using the medium to critique truth-telling devices. They used documentary in a subjective mode + even used it to elicit a self-conscious, self-aware doubt in the medium itself — a radical project.”
This Camera Kills Fascists
In the 1960s, leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Anti-fascism was not just the heritage of past generations but a message carried forward by the avant-garde on-scr...
jacobin.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“What interests me abt the leftist documentaries 🇫🇷 + 🇯🇵 produced in the 1960s was their emphasis on using the medium to critique truth-telling devices. They used documentary in a subjective mode + even used it to elicit a self-conscious, self-aware doubt in the medium itself — a radical project.”
Open studios @massmoca.bsky.social tonight. The painting bug bit hard while I was here 🕷️
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Open studios @massmoca.bsky.social tonight. The painting bug bit hard while I was here 🕷️
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Jeez - just realized I wrote this twenty years ago, and I'm about to lead a work session for art students around it in a couple of minutes. I believe it pretty much holds up. If you are planning on writing a statement, I hope it helps you!
naylandblake.net/on-writing-a...
naylandblake.net/on-writing-a...
Seven Notes on Writing an Artist’s Statement
(These notes come from my experience of writing and reading many artist’s statements over the years: on grant applications, websites, student papers and gallery hand outs. I offer them as a h…
naylandblake.net
February 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Jeez - just realized I wrote this twenty years ago, and I'm about to lead a work session for art students around it in a couple of minutes. I believe it pretty much holds up. If you are planning on writing a statement, I hope it helps you!
naylandblake.net/on-writing-a...
naylandblake.net/on-writing-a...
Anyone else starting 2025 oscillating wildly between unflinching nonfiction and pure escapist fiction?
February 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Anyone else starting 2025 oscillating wildly between unflinching nonfiction and pure escapist fiction?
Studio view this snowy morning @massmoca.bsky.social, endless WIPs to chip away at for open studios next week.
February 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Studio view this snowy morning @massmoca.bsky.social, endless WIPs to chip away at for open studios next week.
Slowdive @massmoca.bsky.social last night
February 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Slowdive @massmoca.bsky.social last night
Saw a great French tapestry exhibition at The Clark institute. Photos really can’t do the work justice. I was struck by the subtle shifts in yarns to become very painterly and true to the original works.
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Saw a great French tapestry exhibition at The Clark institute. Photos really can’t do the work justice. I was struck by the subtle shifts in yarns to become very painterly and true to the original works.
January 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Surrealists’ art was not just about dreams — it became a powerful political tool, exposing the oppression at the heart of modern political systems.
Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism
A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.
hyperallergic.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Surrealists’ art was not just about dreams — it became a powerful political tool, exposing the oppression at the heart of modern political systems.
Reposted by Molly Burt-Westvig
Reposted by Molly Burt-Westvig
Just finished ‘God Of The Woods’ by Liz Moore, it came highly recommend and lived up in a big way. It was too exciting to put down and left me telling everyone around me what I thought would happen next (I was wrong every time).
#books #newfiction #fiction #godofthewoods
#books #newfiction #fiction #godofthewoods
January 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just finished ‘God Of The Woods’ by Liz Moore, it came highly recommend and lived up in a big way. It was too exciting to put down and left me telling everyone around me what I thought would happen next (I was wrong every time).
#books #newfiction #fiction #godofthewoods
#books #newfiction #fiction #godofthewoods
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Please join us 2pm Sat, Jan 25th for a curator-led tour of HESSE FLATOW's current show, "Even In Arcadia There I Am," with curator Andrew Gardner and artists Alina Bliumis, Sasha Fishman, Linnéa Gad, Elizabeth Hazan, Erica Mao, Jacqueline Qiu, Sara Stern, Adrienne Elise Tarver & Alexandria Tarver.
January 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Please join us 2pm Sat, Jan 25th for a curator-led tour of HESSE FLATOW's current show, "Even In Arcadia There I Am," with curator Andrew Gardner and artists Alina Bliumis, Sasha Fishman, Linnéa Gad, Elizabeth Hazan, Erica Mao, Jacqueline Qiu, Sara Stern, Adrienne Elise Tarver & Alexandria Tarver.
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"As both a coping mechanism and a practical service, I’ve collected old media devices and ideas—things that, today more than ever, deserve a second chance."
7 Devices for Dystopian Times
This is a prepper newsletter. Print it out and pin it to the wall of your bunker.
thethingcompany.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"As both a coping mechanism and a practical service, I’ve collected old media devices and ideas—things that, today more than ever, deserve a second chance."
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I’ve always loved the way he approaches the canvas but I think this is my first full post about it —>
Chris Martin: Staring into the sun twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/01/chri...
Chris Martin: Staring into the sun
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Chris Martin is deep into a nearly five-decade-long artistic odyssey fueled by an unrelenting passion for process, spontaneity, and embracing the unexpected. His prol…
twocoatsofpaint.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’ve always loved the way he approaches the canvas but I think this is my first full post about it —>
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THE PULL: OyG Projects Flat File 2025 curated by Eric Hibit is open Fri, Sat, and Sun from 1-6pm. Up through March 16th!
See and purchase works here:
www.oygprojects.com/flat-file-2025
January 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
THE PULL: OyG Projects Flat File 2025 curated by Eric Hibit is open Fri, Sat, and Sun from 1-6pm. Up through March 16th!
See and purchase works here:
www.oygprojects.com/flat-file-2025
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@markthomasgibson OVERTURE opens tonight in Collegville @bermanmuseum.
January 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
@markthomasgibson OVERTURE opens tonight in Collegville @bermanmuseum.
If you’re in Philly, please stop by CFEVA feb 6- march 14! I am honored to be included in this small group show by visiting curator, Taylor Bythewood-Porter. I have a few paintings (some with asphalt, yes) and a video sculpture on view & hope you’ll stop by. 👋
January 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re in Philly, please stop by CFEVA feb 6- march 14! I am honored to be included in this small group show by visiting curator, Taylor Bythewood-Porter. I have a few paintings (some with asphalt, yes) and a video sculpture on view & hope you’ll stop by. 👋
I’m a week in to my residency at @massmoca.bsky.social, here’s a view from the studio this morning ☕️
January 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m a week in to my residency at @massmoca.bsky.social, here’s a view from the studio this morning ☕️
Thought I’d introduce myself here by sharing some work.
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
January 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thought I’d introduce myself here by sharing some work.
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable
To Trace A Sunbeam
2024, video projection on salvaged automotive mirrors, size variable