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bevel! reverse bevel! bevel frame! mosaic bevel! so many levels to the bevels!!!!!

(sam gilliam 1973, 1969, 2021, 2011, blog soon)
The corner of Sam Gilliam's painting "Last September V" (1973) at Christie's auction house. A bright abstract painting in deep green and bright yellow amidst other colors, with an angled, beveled edge that points toward the viewer. The corner of Sam Gilliam's painting "MLG" (1969) at Christie's. A soft pink abstract painting with liquid-like marks of silvery pink paint, with an angled, beveled edge that points toward the wall. The edge of Sam Gilliam's painting "Lucky" (2021) at the Hirshhorn Museum. A thickly painted and splattered abstract tondo painting, with fluorescent hues covering a white background, with an angled, beveled white frame edge onto which the composition spills. Detail of Sam Gilliam's mosaic artwork "From Model to Rainbow" (2011) in Takoma, Washington, DC. An abstract mosaic tile artwork with a large 3-dimensional circular area jutting out from the primary composition, with an angled beveled edge running around it.
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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the post-sale coverage here is funny bc like, this is just not true! and the museum has sold off a *lot* of work between 1987 and today, and some of those sales were way more objectionable than this one imo.
The last time the museum deaccessioned, or sold, a work, Liza Phillips said, was in 1987 when her father was director; the piece was one by Georges Braque that had not been collected by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips themselves.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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looking harder at this cady noland barrier from a different angle and suddenly the a-frames made me read it as a text piece

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
An untitled 1998 sculpture by Cady Noland, installed in the sunken garden gallery at Sotheby's in the Marcel Breuer building, formerly the Whitney. A found-object sculpture made of around a dozen white plastic a-frame pieces with a painted white wood plank stuck through their center. The work is pictured from the side, emphasizing the "A" shape of the a-frames.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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i really can't tell if it's funny or not that they made it feel like a ~branded sale~
Two works for sale at Sotheby's auction house in New York, in the Marcel Breuer-designed former home of the Whitney Museum. Above the works in painted lettering on the wall is the logo of the Phillips Collection, from which the works are being sold. From left to right, an abstract painting by Arthur Dove (Rose and Locust Stump), and a painting by Georgia O'Keefe (Large Dark Red Leaves on White).
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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genuinely fascinated by the take that the new Noland show "was a hit", although I don't fundamentally disagree.

but the show got exactly 2 (two) full reviews, one of them on a blog, one of them headlined that the show was "not as bad as you may have heard". that feels like the opposite of a hit!
"The elusive artist Cady Noland has made a shock return: will it impact her reputation? The American artists has recently broken a long silence with major gallery shows in New York - and the reaction hints at her work's continuing relevance." [Below the headline is a photograph of a young Cady Noland on the streets of New York in a phonebooth.] The scale and volume of the new work in her most recent Gagosian exhibition dwarfed those two shows. Its checklist contained 38 entries, and all but two were made this year. The show was a hit. The Art Newspaper understands that many of the works (most priced in groups from around $100,000 to over $2m) were placed with major private collectors and institutions. More surprising, however, was the show’s enthusiastic reception by younger fans, who have known Noland mostly, if not entirely, as a mythic figure. The next generation of collectors “flocked to” the Gagosian show, says Wendy Cromwell, a New York-based art adviser, and it resonated powerfully with young artists. “Controlling her own narrative by recusal from gallery shows, which gave Cady agency as an artist, has immense appeal right now to young artists figuring out how to navigate the marketplace,” Cromwell says. The relevance of Noland’s core themes probably also plays a role in her intergenerational appeal, according to Rob Teeters, the founder of the advisory firm Front Desk Apparatus. In the US, he says, “gun control and violence or the distribution of wealth and power” are all topics “at the forefront of younger generations’ concerns”.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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it took them until like halfway through Fall to finally update this lol
Screenshot of the New Museum's "Building" webpage. "Reopening in Fall 2025, the New Museum continues construction of our building expansion, designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson" Screenshot of the New Museum's "Building" webpage. The reopening date now reads "early 2026", the only change to the website.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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this article (www.artnews.com/art-news/new...) reminded me of the Basquiat at SAAM that for some reason never got an accession number or put online. credited to the museum and the Schorr Family Collection, which afaik is not modern/contemporary. is it a promised gift? a loan? what does it all mean.
An untitled painting from 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Amid several layers of scribble-like abstraction in muted tones of ochre, orange, pink, deep green, gray, and cream, a figure is visible in the upper right corner with drawing of a bone below the figure and a claw- or crown-like object to its left. A large triangle form dominates the bottom left of the canvas, possib ly a mountain or pyramid form, with white circles applied over it. Wall label for the painting. "Jean-Michel Basquiat, b. 1960 New York, d. 1988 New York. Untitled, 1982. Acrylic and oil paint stick on canvas. Ringed by black lines that vibrate with a spiky intensity, a skeletal figure raises a fist. His body appears as an X-ray, while his left arm floats beside him as a bone. All around, colors dash in and out of view, creating an electric scene of clashing shapes and unruly energy. Jean-Michel Basquiat was a graffiti artist early in his career, and he carried the spontaneity of painting on the streets of New York into his paintings. In Untitled and other works, he explored his own experience as a Black man in the United States, pictured as a complex brew of brilliance and death. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Schorr Family Collection"
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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once you start noland-spotting you cannot stop
A two-tiered shopping cart filled with paint-splattered home improvement tools, cleaning supplies, and other detritus, pushed off to the edge of a sidewalk. A folded-up mobility aid/walker, abandoned on the elevated front lawn of a rowhouse in DC.
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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notwithstanding everything *else* going on at the palais de tokyo i'm so bummed i don't get to see this. they even got blackmass publishing to make a sick zine for the show :((
Installation view of Melvin Edwards's retrospective at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, featuring several painted, free-standing metal sculptures, an array of sculptures from the Lynch Fragments series, and several corten steel sculptures. Installation view of Melvin Edwards's retrospective at the Palais de Tokyo, with a hanging chain sculpture by Edwards in the foreground and an abstract barbed-wire installation in the background
October 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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i assume diva corp is just wildly speculating but this is actually quite disconcerting
Screenshot of a story from divacorp_usa on Instagram: "BREAKING NEWS: Monuments at MOCA Complete power failure on opening day, in hour 1. Was it a coordinated strike? An act of vengeance? Building evacuated... more soon"
October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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pleasantly surprised to have been wrong here, UVA making the right decision for once. incredibly happy for what this means more broadly if even the current BOV couldn't stomach this.
Cville Right Now: UVA declines Compact participation. The University of Virginia has become the fifth of the nine schools to receive the letter not to agree to the Trump Administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education
October 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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i dunno if i have the mental bandwidth to finish this blog post bc i included too many shows but i need to underscore how good eric n mack's show at arts & letters is
Eric N. Mack's "Cartouche" (2025), a series of brightly patterned and colored fabrics stretched between two parallel wires running between neoclassical buildings in a courtyard. Eric N. Mack's "Pocket watch and chain" (2025), a set of stainless steel rods, possibly for a wall-mounted umbrella, adorned with an array of patterned hanging fabric, some cut and sewn together and some coiled to form ropes of textile between and among the bars. Eric N. Mack's "A truer before / Cape" (2025), a set of stainless steel bars forming a wide armature against a wall with a set of curving, almost armlike bars stretching forward, all draped in a red and yellow striped sheer fabric, appearing alternately like a figure with arms spread or an abstracted mantis ready to strike. Several works by Eric N. Mack, all comprising various fabrics stretched like paintings, hanging from the vaulted ceiling, or arranged over metal armatures.
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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first I thought it was Elyn Zimmerman, then Mary Miss, then maybe Jackie Ferrera in a style I didn't recognize, then Richard Fleischner, but no, all of these artists just ALSO have an installation in the collection.

It's Richard Artschwager's Oasis, 1990. SIRIS listing:
Screenshot of the SIRIS interface, showing Richard Artschweger's "Oasis" (1990), a tiered triangular platform made of stone with a small tree embedded in one section.
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I've said it before but this is still the funniest artwork donation credit line of all time
Screenshot of the online collection database of the Dia Art Foundation, with. "Dan Flavin. "monument" for V. Tatlin, 1967. Artwork details. Artist: Dan Flavin; Medium: Fluorescent light and metal fixtures [...] Credit line: Dia Art Foundation, gift of Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi"
October 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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also it should have been obvious but I just learned that Senga Nengudi makes exhibition copies of her R.S.V.P. sculptures. would love to know if the Hirshhorn has been exhibiting a copy when they've shown it recently or if they show the "real" thing (which itself is a refabrication from 2014)
Wall label and text for a work by Senga Nengudi at the Pizzuti Collection. "Senga Nengudi. "R.S.V.P. X". 1976/refrabricated 2014, exhibition copy. Nylon, sand, rose petals. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2016. In 1975, while observing changes in her physical form during pregnancy, Nengudi began her sculpture series R.S.V.P., kinetic formations of nylon pantyhose and sand tethered to the walls, floor, or ceiling, and stretched like skin. Nengudi has described the series as a "conceptual manifestation of the changes a body/form can endure and how much elasticity is left after the pulling and tension cease." On many occasions, Nengudi has invited select performers to dance with the piece, as if answering the series title's call to respond-répondez s'il vout plait (respond if you please). Hassinger has long been a primary partner in the series, and R.S.V.P. X is one of two sculptures that she has previously performed with. Hidden in one of the nylon pouches are dried rose petals, remnants of a flower that Hassinger also uses in her own work." Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P. X (1976/refabricated 2014, exhibition copy) at the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio. Several pays of brown pantyhose are stretched across the corner of a gallery space, creating a vaguely figurative outline that appears to be bending forward at the feet at a steep angle. The fabric is anchored to the walls at two points with nails, stretching the gap of the corner, and via two weighted sections of fabric on the floor which are filled with sand and rose petals. Another tied section of fabric in the center of the work is filled with the same materials, hanging down from the central point where the fabrics meet.
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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shot in the dark but has ANYONE seen details on this Cameron Rowland work from Glenstone's collection before? fascinated by what this could be but I've never seen it mentioned.

No medium line in the online listing, just a picture of Rockefeller's name in what looks like the MoMA or Glenstone font.
Screenshot from Glenstone's online collection. "Owners. Cameron Rowland, 2022. © Cameron Rowland." Screenshot of Glenstone's online collection database, showing Cameron Rowland's "Owners" (2022). A picture of a white wall in a gallery space with the name "David Rockefeller" in metal lettering on the wall.
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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thank u matthew higgs and tyler mitchell lol <3
Screenshot of Matthew Higgs's Instagram post showing an installation view of Cady Noland's exhibition at Gagosian in 2025. Screenshot of Tyler Mitchell's Instagram story showing an installation view of Cady Noland's exhibition at Gagosian in 2025 with works by Steven Parrino also visible. Screenshot of Tyler Mitchell's Instagram story showing an installation view of Cady Noland's exhibition at Gagosian in 2025 with works by Steven Parrino also visible.
September 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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cady noland show opened at noon, it's now 1230 and I don't see a single new pic anywhere apart from this via gagosian......... I'm gonna yell

(i will be seeing this on my bday but i am also impatient)
Picture of the print sculpture Untitled (2025), by Cady Noland. UV print on Dibond. © Cady Noland. Five hands, all with their pointer finger raised, are arranged on a white background. The hand in the center points upward and is attached to an arm with the word "SALE" printed. Three other armless hands also point up. A single hand in the lower left corner points down.
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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fuck I tried archiving on Wayback yesterday in case this happened but it looks like YouTube's filters shut out the archive bot and wouldn't let it save. this is as close as it gets to loading now.
Screenshot of a half-loaded YouTube video in the Wayback Machine interface. Four images of Richard Prince at his second deposition fill the screen of the YouTube video.
August 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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no no no NO I thought this was quarantined to the west coast what are u DOING IN DC
A Waymo driverless car on Florida Ave NW in DC
March 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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thomas lea’s “the two thousand yard stare” (1944)
December 19, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Carrie Bradshaw staring seriously with text that reads “Guys, Big got shot.”
December 6, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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he really just sets himself up at this point
Screenshot from X/Twitter of a post retweeted by Elon Musk, originating from @Tesla_AI. The post reads "Russ Hannemamn would be proud of these doors," and features a picture of a Tesla with front doors that are opened upwards instead of strictly horizontally like most non-sports cars Screenshot from the television show "Silicon Valley," featuring the character Russ Hanneman. The dialogue below the character reads "22 years young and I'm worth 1.2B. Now a couple decades later I'm worth 1 point-" Screenshot from the same scene, the dialogue continues: "couple decades later I'm worth 1 point four. You do the math. Inflation is like-" At this point a second character is in frame, whose line begins with "Inflation" The second character continues: "one point 70. I think CDs are 2%. So that's less than a CD." Russ Hanneman, the character referenced in the post retweeted by Elon Musk, was unable to grow his wealth enough over several decades to even keep up with inflation, and a CD would have been a better investment than the decisions he made.
November 27, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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oh we're so back
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November 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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I am once again blessed/forced to announce that I have blogged about Cady Noland: 202arts.org/2024/11/16/o...

(read part 1: 202arts.org/2024/11/10/c...)
Cady Noland's silkscreen on aluminum artwork Untitled (This Time Nixon) (1994) on display at Glenstone, a contemporary art museum in Maryland. A flat sheet of aluminum featuring a black-and-white image of Richard Nixon above a block of white text on a blue background that reads, in all caps, "This Time, Nixon." The sheet of aluminum is propped up on two rectangular white foam blocks and leaned against a wall, with two additional smaller foam blocks resting on the top corners of the artwork.
November 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM