Sarah Jaffray

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 ).

Thank you!

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

All the dirt they have on him: calling a loved one an aunt who is an aunt in almost every sense of the word. We are living in the upsidedown.

Also Andrew Mellon was a robber baron before becoming Sec of Treasury for Warren G Harding and Calvin Coolidge (spearheading the financial policies that led to the Great Depression). Not surprising his heirs are repeating family history.

Detail of a larger painting. Man squats, pants down, and poos on the ground.

I thought of Bruegel's Magpie on the Gallows, the figure in the bottom left side taking a dump. It may be a reference to the phrase 'sh*tting on the gallows', which meant taking a dump on government power.

Black and white photograph of a person sleeping in bed with a white mannequin head under their arm.

Black and white photograph of a person sat up in bed with a white mannequin head under their arm.

Good morning from Berenice Abbott, Jean Cocteau and this robot mannequin head (1927)

Always and forever 🤘🏼

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.

Gordon [sic] Under Medical Inspection

Gordon [sic] Under Medical Inspection https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2012.78

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.

A man sits in a chair in the foreground, he poses for an artist who stands at their easel, palette and brush in hand, in the background.

She really did paint in that exact pose. A photo by Emily Andriesse of van der Freer painting the artist David Cornelis c. 1945.

A portrait of a person with short hair, cigarette hanging out of their mouth.

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

Exactly. And in the U.S. in 2024, 50% of the country was laughing at tr**p getting to be president again. We need to take them seriously, right now.

Ed Ruscha, Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964.

Or, more to the point:

Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.

JJ spot on. It is a brilliant show, by a brilliant and hard working curator.

The British Museum has always collected contemporary art. Always and forever.

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.

date inscribed Presented by William N. Copley 1959

Dorothea Tanning, A Mi-Voix, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123439

This is exactly what the future mayor of New York should be doing ❤️🤍

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...

"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...

This is exactly it.

One of my favourite artworks ever.

'We are a product of the time. . .'

I know Rothko NEVER 'marketed' his works as transcendent and spiritual, btw. It is how museums have gotten people to engage with his work because 1. he did not explain his work (rightfully) 2. his choice of abstraction was deeply embedded in antifascism, which doesn't read well on a museum label.

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.

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

He is one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. What an incredible painting!!

Houdini's fight against spirit photography is soooo relevant today! This sounds amazing.

Hot potato! We are all Claes Oldenburg's Baked Potato, Thrown in Corner, under Light Bulb (1965) in the NYC heat today. 🥔☀️