@mlobelart.bsky.social
Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them. Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
c-o-e-q-u-a-l b-r-a-n-c-h-e-s o-f g-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t--? damned if I've ever heard that expression before, or know what it even means
I've been saying for quite a while that George Grosz is the historical artist who best captures the tenor of our current moment. He made this painting, "God of War," in 1940, several years after fleeing Nazi Germany for the US, where he became an influential teacher www.artic.edu/artworks/241...
If you're in the NYC area and interested in what younger artists are up to, the @huntercollege.bsky.social open studios event— tomorrow (Sat. March 14), 5-9pm at 205 Hudson Street—is always a blast, a great way to see many different types of art all in one place. Come join us..!
Gustave Doré, Newgate Prison Exercise Yard, 1872
omg- I know it makes me seem petty but I absolutely love this idea
Honestly could not imagine that at all. If I were asked to think of a museum that squanders its permanent collection, I think the Hirshhorn might be the first to come to mind
Post a great photo of a musician
If you're in the NYC area and interested in what younger artists are up to, the @huntercollege.bsky.social open studios event— tomorrow (Sat. March 14), 5-9pm at 205 Hudson Street—is always a blast, a great way to see many different types of art all in one place. Come join us..!
I've been saying for quite a while that George Grosz is the historical artist who best captures the tenor of our current moment. He made this painting, "God of War," in 1940, several years after fleeing Nazi Germany for the US, where he became an influential teacher www.artic.edu/artworks/241...
Maybe they would be interested then in one of Schiele's death bed sketches of his wife Edith? She was 6 months pregnant at the time, dying of the so-called Spanish flu; Schiele, also sick with the flu at the time, died three days later. What do you think, cheerful enough for their tastes maybe..?
This reminds me of the scathing use of collage for political critique in Berlin Dada, like this 1935 image by John Heartfield. The text reads: "Hooray, the butter is all gone! [Hermann] Göring said in his Hamburg speech: 'Iron has made the Reich strong; butter & lard have made the people fat.'"
Absolutely one of Hopper's greatest prints - that perspective looking down at the street just so stunning
I know a lot's going on in the world, but could we maybe talk about art history having its own media moment? Between art history grad student Kip in Heated Rivalry, & Steve Carell's art history professor daughter in new show Rooster, nice to see the discipline getting some (much deserved!) attention
Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
See also: James Rosenquist, F-111, 1964-65 (detail) www.moma.org/collection/w...
If you haven't ever read this story, I highly recommend you do so now👇
Christo & Jeanne-Claude did numerous works using oil barrels. In June 1967, following the Six-Day War between Israel and a group of Arab states, the artists proposed to close the Suez Canal with a wall of 10 million oil barrels, a project that was—unsurprisingly—never realized
Checks out (Roy Lichtenstein, Forms in Space, 1985) whitney.org/collection/w...
A thread for the day. First up: Vincent van Gogh, "Shoes," 1888 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
David Young Cameron, "The Steps," etching, 1892 www.nga.gov/artworks/544...
Florsheim shoes, c. 1962, from the Met Museum collection; not currently on view www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Thurman Rotan, Skyscrapers, 1932 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Thurman Rotan, Skyscrapers, 1932 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
I've long been low-key obsessed (or more than low-key??) with that Bazille painting of Monet recuperating in bed, with a leg wound. Like, how did he decide that would be a fitting subject for a painting...?? Incredible
Pier Francesco Mola (1612–66), Artists Drawing and Painting from the Model, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, 2 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (7.3 x 20 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
I guess I'm caught off guard by the length of the brush; I would expect mahl sticks (or maulsticks) that long, but I guess it seems a bit more extended than most paintbrushes would usually be...?
Many thanks to @alexzivkovic.bsky.social for introducing me to this 🔥 portrait by Frédéric Bazille of writer & art collector Edmond Maître, which is in the National Gallery of Art's collection so tagging @peterhuestis.bsky.social on this as well www.nga.gov/artworks/664...
Jesse, I'm confused by this section of the drawing. Is the nude figure a standing model, perhaps with sheet behind him, or a *drawing* of a model? I'm assuming the latter, but then how to explain the size of the sheet - or is it a canvas? But if the latter, why such a long brush? I'm confused
