Jen Wingate
@wingatejen.bsky.social
Art historian & former prof; material culture & sculpture enthusiast; putting one foot in front of the other https://jenniferwingate.hcommons.org/publications/
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Jen Wingate
@wingatejen.bsky.social
· Oct 21
A couple more teasers for my new book, coming April 2026.
In advance of my book's publication, I'd like to try to crowdsource examples of the domestic display of political portraits. I'll start with a photo I took in Brooklyn, NY, on Sunday. #athomewithpoliticalportraits @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
In advance of my book's publication, I'd like to try to crowdsource examples of the domestic display of political portraits. I'll start with a photo I took in Brooklyn, NY, on Sunday. #athomewithpoliticalportraits @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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Taking a cue from @onceatrophic.bsky.social to let you know this would be a great time to purchase my Van Gogh book, now 30% off. Beautiful full-color reproductions of Van Gogh's art & a completely new view of this iconic modern artist. Use code GIFT30 thru Dec. 5: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Taking a cue from @onceatrophic.bsky.social to let you know this would be a great time to purchase my Van Gogh book, now 30% off. Beautiful full-color reproductions of Van Gogh's art & a completely new view of this iconic modern artist. Use code GIFT30 thru Dec. 5: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Exquisite oil on panel painting by Jenny Brillhart, “Fabric from the Lakso House,” 2025, on view in the group show “Drop/Cloth” curated by Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs opening Dec. 4 at two sites: Hollis Taggart and Susan Inglett galleries in NYC 🦚
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Exquisite oil on panel painting by Jenny Brillhart, “Fabric from the Lakso House,” 2025, on view in the group show “Drop/Cloth” curated by Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs opening Dec. 4 at two sites: Hollis Taggart and Susan Inglett galleries in NYC 🦚
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How is it that college administrators get paid high salaries to come up with such dumb ideas, over & over again...? Is there someone who will pay me for dumb ideas? If you really want I can come up with plenty (and even some good ones as well) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
How is it that college administrators get paid high salaries to come up with such dumb ideas, over & over again...? Is there someone who will pay me for dumb ideas? If you really want I can come up with plenty (and even some good ones as well) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
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People to gather at 8am, Wednesday Nov 12, near Upper Room, 1985, by Ned Smyth, at Albany Street and the Esplanade / Hudson River to show support for the #publicsculpture and witness destruction of this NY State property ($1.7M value).
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
People to gather at 8am, Wednesday Nov 12, near Upper Room, 1985, by Ned Smyth, at Albany Street and the Esplanade / Hudson River to show support for the #publicsculpture and witness destruction of this NY State property ($1.7M value).
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Destruction of Ned Smyth Upper Room sculpture supposed to happen this morning Nov 12, 8am, near Upper Room, 1985, by Ned Smyth, at Albany Street and Esplanade. People can show up to support the #publicsculpture and witness demise of this NY State property ($1.7M value). #Urbanism+
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Destruction of Ned Smyth Upper Room sculpture supposed to happen this morning Nov 12, 8am, near Upper Room, 1985, by Ned Smyth, at Albany Street and Esplanade. People can show up to support the #publicsculpture and witness demise of this NY State property ($1.7M value). #Urbanism+
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My recommendations to #mayor elect #Mamdani for how to bolster #NewYorkCity image. #monuments #publicart #parks #Urbanism+ www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/no-...
Vital City | No City for Old Monuments?
What our ultra-progressive mayor should do about contentious statues
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November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My recommendations to #mayor elect #Mamdani for how to bolster #NewYorkCity image. #monuments #publicart #parks #Urbanism+ www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/no-...
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Remarkable: “This marks the first time that the [Boston MFA] has resolved an ownership claim for works of art that were wrongfully taken under the conditions of slavery in the 19th-century U.S.”
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www.mfa.org/press-releas...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake
BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k
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October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Remarkable: “This marks the first time that the [Boston MFA] has resolved an ownership claim for works of art that were wrongfully taken under the conditions of slavery in the 19th-century U.S.”
www.mfa.org/press-releas...
www.mfa.org/press-releas...
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My kingdom for a woman-pleasing salad.
📸: Man-Pleaser Salads from the Knox Gelatine Kitchens, Saul Zalesch collection of American ephemera, 1938 @hagleycenter.bsky.social
📸: Man-Pleaser Salads from the Knox Gelatine Kitchens, Saul Zalesch collection of American ephemera, 1938 @hagleycenter.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My kingdom for a woman-pleasing salad.
📸: Man-Pleaser Salads from the Knox Gelatine Kitchens, Saul Zalesch collection of American ephemera, 1938 @hagleycenter.bsky.social
📸: Man-Pleaser Salads from the Knox Gelatine Kitchens, Saul Zalesch collection of American ephemera, 1938 @hagleycenter.bsky.social
Public Art Dialogue CFP "Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific World"
Guest editors Nick Parkinson & Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández
Guest editors Nick Parkinson & Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Public Art Dialogue CFP "Colonial Afterlives: Public Art and the Trans-Pacific World"
Guest editors Nick Parkinson & Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández
Guest editors Nick Parkinson & Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández
While I enjoyed seeing examples of art from the 60s that diverge from the same old text book ones, I fully relate Lisa Yin Zhang when she writes "By the end of the exhibition, I felt like I’d lost the plot on what “surrealism” even means" hyperallergic.com/1049985/whit...
The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck
I wish “Sixties Surreal” focused more on destabilizing the concept of “real” than reifying it.
hyperallergic.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
While I enjoyed seeing examples of art from the 60s that diverge from the same old text book ones, I fully relate Lisa Yin Zhang when she writes "By the end of the exhibition, I felt like I’d lost the plot on what “surrealism” even means" hyperallergic.com/1049985/whit...
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I set up an automatic donation to the Astoria Food Pantry bank in July; I’ll set up another couple this week. But I have to say I resent the hell out of digging into my pocket while I am *already paying taxes* for this very purpose—to keep my neighbors (and myself) happy, healthy and safe.
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I set up an automatic donation to the Astoria Food Pantry bank in July; I’ll set up another couple this week. But I have to say I resent the hell out of digging into my pocket while I am *already paying taxes* for this very purpose—to keep my neighbors (and myself) happy, healthy and safe.
A couple more teasers for my new book, coming April 2026.
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A couple more teasers for my new book, coming April 2026.
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
I marched with artwork by David Barthold.
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I marched with artwork by David Barthold.
The book is out now. Restall wisely says “These are essentially living objects whose meaning is constantly shifting, and so where they are located and how we talk about them has to also be constantly changing. And that’s not a bad thing," in the NYT today, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/a...
October 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The book is out now. Restall wisely says “These are essentially living objects whose meaning is constantly shifting, and so where they are located and how we talk about them has to also be constantly changing. And that’s not a bad thing," in the NYT today, www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/a...
It's such a delight to walk around these Larry Bell sculptures in Madison Square Park and to see how they change at every step.
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It's such a delight to walk around these Larry Bell sculptures in Madison Square Park and to see how they change at every step.
The pre- pre- pre-release of my next book, coming April 2026. ;)
October 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The pre- pre- pre-release of my next book, coming April 2026. ;)
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#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton.
More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.
Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.
Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
Sept. 30, 1919: Elaine Massacre
Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates ...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton.
More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.
Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.
Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...
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Our current apocalypse is entirely driven by the fact that billionaires have convinced people that there’s not enough in the world to sustain us all and so we must fight each other to hoard and survive. In fact, there is more than enough to sustain us—it’s the hoarding that’s the problem.
Citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social says his democratic socialism is about "better distribution of wealth for all of God's children."
"We're in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty."
"We're in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty."
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Our current apocalypse is entirely driven by the fact that billionaires have convinced people that there’s not enough in the world to sustain us all and so we must fight each other to hoard and survive. In fact, there is more than enough to sustain us—it’s the hoarding that’s the problem.
It was fun having the chance to see and hear Pamela Z perform inside Torkwase Dyson's sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park last evening at dusk. @publicartfund.bsky.social #TorkwaseDyson #PamelaZ www.instagram.com/p/DPJhurpjbR...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It was fun having the chance to see and hear Pamela Z perform inside Torkwase Dyson's sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park last evening at dusk. @publicartfund.bsky.social #TorkwaseDyson #PamelaZ www.instagram.com/p/DPJhurpjbR...