Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings

Why Art History Must Leave Home | The Brooklyn Rail There may have been a worse time in US history to be in higher education, but I’m not sure when. Working in art history, a field that faces constant skepticism even among those who claim to love learn...

A must read for anyone connected to art history but also critical thinking...

23.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Weird to feel excited about anything these days, but grateful to have the "distraction" of working on a project I deeply believe in. Thanks to Getty for supporting books about women artists and excited to (eventually) see 'Structure and Flow: The Life/Work of Claire Falkenstein' out in the world!

07.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Sitting here wondering how familiar the Waiting for Godot set designer is with work of inimitable postwar sculptor Lee Bontecou

14.09.2025 19:10 — 👍 60 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 0

Please tell me again how AI and Crypto is the future and totally justifiable…

08.09.2025 00:50 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Taste of Chicago, in the great American city called “a hellhole” by a gangster President.

07.09.2025 22:01 — 👍 99 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 2

Color photo of part of Chicago’s distinctive skyline, including the mf’n SEARS TOWER scraping the skies above. Taken from quite a distance, trees, power lines and other buildings complete the cityscape, all framed by clouds so low and fluffy they look like a toddler’s cotton ball art project.

Still there. As of yesterday, at least. No telling what’s happened since, as I’ve been told that this majestic city is also somehow a hellhole.

07.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0

Was literally at Art Omi yesterday admiring his lovely work there

04.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Flag of the greatest city in the world, Chicago (that doesn’t want National Guard troops), depicting three white horizontal stripes, two blue stripes and four stars

02.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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White House Targets Specific Artworks at Smithsonian, Including Painting of Refugees and Fauci Portrait The White House listed artworks at Smithsonian museums that it denounced, including a painting of refugees, a Fauci portrait, and more.

We've reached the "Degenerate Art" stage of this Nazi administration. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

22.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

I know this is way besides the point but that SUIT tho... 👀

20.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What the what?!
‘One of the most notable tools is the AI grader agent, which Grammarly says can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor.’

20.08.2025 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days last week at Detroit's Hart Plaza, designed by Isamu Noguchi--a powerful reminder of the immense power and pleasure of public art (and huge props to the city for getting the fountain back up and running!)

19.08.2025 19:34 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Sigh. Just endless sigh.

12.08.2025 17:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Black and white photograph of an exhibition of sculptures by the artist Harry Bertoia in a lower level gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago taken in 1975. In the foreground are marble ashtrays sitting on the top of three stone benches with

Perusing archival photos of 'Sculpture by Harry Bertoia' (1975) at the Art Institute of Chicago and sort of losing it over the ashtrays placed on the benches (also so grateful to institutions, in this case @artinstitutechi.bsky.social for making exhibition archival materials available online!)

07.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

totally. I just don't have a lot of faith at the moment that the GSA (or what is left of it) will actually do it!

31.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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31.07.2025 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0