H-J Schmidt

Anomalous Objects | Triple Canopy Alien, god, or war machine? An evening of performances and conversations on UFOs and the longing for another world....

Come and listen to me talk about our friends up above (and down below) in nyc, at triple canopy, may 18th 6pm

It’s almost Spargel season! Happy times.

BWV 227 is a banger

Drawing of my canine muse Hero.

Show on Artists of African Descent Loses Funding Amid Trump DEI Crackdown The exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, would have featured works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.

Curator Cheryl D. Edwards told Hyperallergic that the Trump administration labeled an upcoming exhibition of works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists as a “DEI program and event” and withdrew funding for the show.

I like this little drawing I made this week.

I have been finding great comfort in actively reminding myself of all the big and small ways in which I have agency.

HANS-JACOB SCHMIDT Hans-Jacob Schmidt is a visual artist investigating the relationship between religious and political social formation through a conceptually driven art practice.

Reorganized my website a little:

www.hansjacobschmidt.com

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I had a vision of humanity becoming too reliant on AI art, forgetting multiple techniques, and undergoing a technological collapse, thus returning us to an era of drawing those fucked up medieval cats

God bless the Quakers

The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.

The “Roman salute,” often cited by fascists, including Hitler, was not an ancient gesture but a modern invention, shaped by art and cinema.

Comprehending fascism in our time The below is a lightly edited version of a presentation given at a book launch for Late Fascism in February of 2024. In our contemporary moment, bombs relentlessly decimate schools, hospitals, and wat...

A resource:

Sculpture of 20th century behavioral scientist Harry Harlow, cast in clear resin, with Duchamp’s Bottle Rack and the experimental ‘Monkey Mother’ model cast inside his head.

Sculpture of 20th century behavioral scientist Harry Harlow, cast in clear resin, with Duchamp’s Bottle Rack and the experimental ‘Monkey Mother’ model cast inside his head.

Close up view of a sculpture of 20th century behavioral scientist Harry Harlow, cast in clear resin, with Duchamp’s Bottle Rack and the experimental ‘Monkey Mother’ model cast inside his head.

Close up view of a sculpture of 20th century behavioral scientist Harry Harlow, cast in clear resin, with Duchamp’s Bottle Rack and the experimental ‘Monkey Mother’ model cast inside his head.

Harry Harlow Wire Mother Bottle Rack
2023
plastic, aluminum, MDF
15 5/8 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches

made for the solo exhibition Cannibal Galaxies at Specialist Gallery in Seattle, WA.

My heart aches over this.

Ffffucckkk

My man just said that I have countess Luann hair…

Dorinda. Smash those bricks like Björk in Dancer in the Dark.

Eminem really gives Grindr voice note on Roman‘s Revenge.

Remembering George Michael who died on Christmas Day eight years ago. RIP

A/S/L?

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

"we need an edit button" we are on bluesky the stakes have never been lower

I performed this game I wrote for the SKD recently. Photo: Oliver Killig

Werner Herzog ass sequence.

Nuh-uh