Sarah Jaffray
@sarahj.bsky.social
Art historian C19/20 | drawing, paper & prints | philosophy & process | cinema | choses français | London via L.A.
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James Rosenquist, President Elect, 1960-61/1964
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
James Rosenquist, President Elect, 1960-61/1964
We are, in fact, not running out of good ideas.
There are no short cuts to new ideas, but late-stage capitalism wants 'em quick and is palpably desperate to rip all full, meaningful time from us to feed its machine.
There are no short cuts to new ideas, but late-stage capitalism wants 'em quick and is palpably desperate to rip all full, meaningful time from us to feed its machine.
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We are, in fact, not running out of good ideas.
There are no short cuts to new ideas, but late-stage capitalism wants 'em quick and is palpably desperate to rip all full, meaningful time from us to feed its machine.
There are no short cuts to new ideas, but late-stage capitalism wants 'em quick and is palpably desperate to rip all full, meaningful time from us to feed its machine.
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A great day out with @sarahj.bsky.social visiting the Tate Modern permanent collection on her excellent ‘Demystifying the Tate Modern’ course( @citylit.bsky.social ).
December 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A great day out with @sarahj.bsky.social visiting the Tate Modern permanent collection on her excellent ‘Demystifying the Tate Modern’ course( @citylit.bsky.social ).
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Good morning from Berenice Abbott, Jean Cocteau and this robot mannequin head (1927)
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Good morning from Berenice Abbott, Jean Cocteau and this robot mannequin head (1927)
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Gordon [sic] Under Medical Inspection https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2012.78
![Gordon [sic] Under Medical Inspection](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xx45w5guspx66g6yfjq43ruy/bafkreig2lzcroflcopnnh3i3utvy475np4sqnn2zeh5vimod47jhswiwmi@jpeg)
October 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Gordon [sic] Under Medical Inspection https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2012.78
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Today: researching Anneke van der Freer (1902-1956), part of the De Nieuwe Zakelijkheid (New Objectivity) in Amsterdam, staunch anti-fascist and feminist.
Self-Portrait, 1938
Self-Portrait, 1938
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Today: researching Anneke van der Freer (1902-1956), part of the De Nieuwe Zakelijkheid (New Objectivity) in Amsterdam, staunch anti-fascist and feminist.
Self-Portrait, 1938
Self-Portrait, 1938
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Ed Ruscha, Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964.
Or, more to the point:
Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.
Or, more to the point:
Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.
October 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ed Ruscha, Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964.
Or, more to the point:
Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.
Or, more to the point:
Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.
A 2 🌟 review, in which, the critic's entire argument hinges on his anger that the British Museum has collected contemporary prints. Even though the British Museum has always held the national collection of prints & drawings, including the contemporary. Critics should sorta know this stuff.
Nordic Noir review – one severed horse’s head is just not nearly enough noir
Nordic Noir review – one severed horse’s head is just not nearly enough noir
While some prints are suitably nasty, these mostly so-so drawings feel more like something you’d see in Ikea. Who thought they were worthy of purchase for the nation?
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A 2 🌟 review, in which, the critic's entire argument hinges on his anger that the British Museum has collected contemporary prints. Even though the British Museum has always held the national collection of prints & drawings, including the contemporary. Critics should sorta know this stuff.
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Dorothea Tanning, A Mi-Voix, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123439
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123439
September 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Dorothea Tanning, A Mi-Voix, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123439
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123439
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
One of my favourite artworks ever.
'We are a product of the time. . .'
'We are a product of the time. . .'
I'm just a guy who teaches art history, but I have learned this: every moment, of every day, I get to choose what I put out into the world. Will it be guided by love, kindness & compassion, or anger, hostility & destructiveness? I'm not always successful, but I know which direction I try to go
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of my favourite artworks ever.
'We are a product of the time. . .'
'We are a product of the time. . .'
I know Rothko's art is marketed transcendent and spiritual, but I've always felt his colour fields are rage (barely) assuaged by methodical touch. That he painted these to trap rich 'bastards' as they stuffed their faces makes me love the paintings even more.
Their meeting took place this morning in the Pool Room of what once was the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building.
I can't help thinking what Mark Rothko (who was commissioned to paint the Pool Room's murals—and who later withdrew) would have thought about today's anti-Mamdani meeting.
I can't help thinking what Mark Rothko (who was commissioned to paint the Pool Room's murals—and who later withdrew) would have thought about today's anti-Mamdani meeting.
September 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I know Rothko's art is marketed transcendent and spiritual, but I've always felt his colour fields are rage (barely) assuaged by methodical touch. That he painted these to trap rich 'bastards' as they stuffed their faces makes me love the paintings even more.
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Great read, and this quote grabbed my attention
"In Walker’s treatment, sections of man and horse have been cut apart and resoldered together in a tangle of hooves, haunches, bridles and necks, the parts more or less recognizable but the whole an entirely new, unsettled being."
Siddhartha Mitter
"In Walker’s treatment, sections of man and horse have been cut apart and resoldered together in a tangle of hooves, haunches, bridles and necks, the parts more or less recognizable but the whole an entirely new, unsettled being."
Siddhartha Mitter
New from me:
On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va.
Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va.
Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles.
[Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great read, and this quote grabbed my attention
"In Walker’s treatment, sections of man and horse have been cut apart and resoldered together in a tangle of hooves, haunches, bridles and necks, the parts more or less recognizable but the whole an entirely new, unsettled being."
Siddhartha Mitter
"In Walker’s treatment, sections of man and horse have been cut apart and resoldered together in a tangle of hooves, haunches, bridles and necks, the parts more or less recognizable but the whole an entirely new, unsettled being."
Siddhartha Mitter
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Hot potato! We are all Claes Oldenburg's Baked Potato, Thrown in Corner, under Light Bulb (1965) in the NYC heat today. 🥔☀️
July 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hot potato! We are all Claes Oldenburg's Baked Potato, Thrown in Corner, under Light Bulb (1965) in the NYC heat today. 🥔☀️
Sonia Delaunay, Robe simultanée, 1913 and the artist wearing her creation (via @labnf.bsky.social)
September 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Sonia Delaunay, Robe simultanée, 1913 and the artist wearing her creation (via @labnf.bsky.social)
When a bookshop is at the heart of a neighborhood it is the owner who made it so. Sad news in South London.
Really sad news.
Jonathan was a mensch and Bookseller Crow is a joy.
Jonathan was a mensch and Bookseller Crow is a joy.
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
When a bookshop is at the heart of a neighborhood it is the owner who made it so. Sad news in South London.
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Send us your work! For both general and folio submissions, we accept poetry, fiction, essays, excerpted larger works, and translations.
When you submit, you will have the option to identify your work for general submission or the themes. Submissions close Sept. 30th.
kenyonreview.org/submit/
When you submit, you will have the option to identify your work for general submission or the themes. Submissions close Sept. 30th.
kenyonreview.org/submit/
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Send us your work! For both general and folio submissions, we accept poetry, fiction, essays, excerpted larger works, and translations.
When you submit, you will have the option to identify your work for general submission or the themes. Submissions close Sept. 30th.
kenyonreview.org/submit/
When you submit, you will have the option to identify your work for general submission or the themes. Submissions close Sept. 30th.
kenyonreview.org/submit/
Inconsequential pet peeve:
When I see the surrealists referred to as 'whimsical'
When I see the surrealists referred to as 'whimsical'
August 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Inconsequential pet peeve:
When I see the surrealists referred to as 'whimsical'
When I see the surrealists referred to as 'whimsical'
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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Another welcome addition to the AI self defence kit:
Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean.
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...
A Dictionary of "AI" — Sonja Drimmer
Even if you spend just a small amount of time listening to people who believe that any kind of digital technology (whether that’s “artificial intelligence” or not) is an unquestioned good, you’ll hear...
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Another welcome addition to the AI self defence kit:
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Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com