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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.

DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”

Meticulously rendered macaw on a plain ground. Its talon seems to be wrapped around a branch, but none can be seen. The bird just floats on the paper. Script identifies it as Pssitacus Arauna at the bottom

Jacopo Ligozzi, Psittacus Ararauna (Blue and Gold Macaw), c. 1580-1600, 67 x 45.6 cm. Florence, Uffizi

A number of people believe Krasner invented abstract expressionism and Pollock got (took?) the credit

upturned missle half buried in the hole it created on a green field. Men dressed casually are nearby along with two cheap underpowered motorbikes. The sky is beautiful and blue above. Mood: discordant unrealized violence with continuining threat

The disparity between the scale of the weapons we build to kill and the humans in their soft clothes covering vulnerable bodies on this beautiful day stole my breath

"An Iranian missile that fell in a northeastern Syrian village near the city of Qamishli on Wednesday." 📷Ahmed Mardnli

Major Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock show to open at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a two-person show featuring major artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock.

How the Met handles gender with the curation of this show is going to be extremely revealing about the state of the field. God, I hope they get it right.

The San Francisco Ballet Cancels Its Trump-Kennedy Center Shows | KQED Initially scheduled to perform at the newly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, the SF Ballet has reversed course.

The San Francisco Ballet has decided to avoid being hence known as the company that danced for the orange dictator at his jankily renamed tribute palace. We applaud their rational decision. www.kqed.org/arts/1398724...

The "including elite schools" makes me mad.

oil painting of nattily dressed White man and woman in mid motion about to ascend an outdoor staircase. They look off balance and amused. She carried a feather

When you really ought to freshen up for your portrait, but were having too much fun drinking before hand.

Bartholomeus van der Helst, Portrait of Couple, 1661. Oil on canvas. 186 x 149. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

White husband and wife clasp hands in a landscape flanked by son and daughter, low horizon line making them look tall. Black boy, shoter than the others, stands in between, pushed into the shadows of the foliage behind, but his presence nevertheless fully registers.

I can just hear the line, "Oh, he's not the help; he's part of the family!" But please stand behind, in the shadows. The immoral reality of Dutch 17th c. enslavement next to affectionate marital PDA.

Frans Hals, Family Group in a Landscape, 1645. Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Oil painting of six identically dressed men at a table, each regarding the viewer, but as unique individuals though they coalesce as a group. Table draped by carpet. Wood paneling behind them. Endlessly intriguing, in large part due to their interest in you the viewer.

Really, there is no better group portrait. Rembrandt won and has held the title longer than any Olympic world record setter.

The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, 1662. Oil on canvas. 191.5 x 279cm. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.

Oh man. I bet the philosophy list is looooooong. (and I didn't know that about you! Cool!)

a painting of a woman laying in a bed with the words " i 'm dead " below her Alt: a painting of a woman laying in a bed muscles tense as if with rigor mortis with the words " i 'm dead " superimposed below her

The verb "exemplify" has bled out of undergraduate classrooms into gallery and museum wall texts everywhere. I've persisted through "captures," "snapshot," and an overreliance on quotes from artists, but this, this is going to end me.

Photo of alley sparkling in the dark under dozens of cut out polyhedron lanterns and twinkle lights strung above extending into the distance. Magical.

San Francisco last night

This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm

Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.

San Francisco Ballet cancels Kennedy Center performances San Francisco Ballet has removed its planned Kennedy Center performances from its touring page, though the Washington venue still lists the engagement.

Finally! Good decision, @sfballet.bsky.social [gift link]

You have a gallery-worthy microwave!

Small white walled break room with red Smeg fridge, red Formica table, red microwave, and red retro-styled toaster. Somebody cared.

I wasn’t that impressed with the shows at Jessica Silverman (a gallery but their PR people are very insistent it can’t be called “the Jessica Silverman gallery” even though there is a person named Jessica Silverman), but I did get a thrill from the break room with the faux vintage red appliances.

Photo of gallery. White walls, polished concrete floor. Drawings lined up on tables in the middle. Framed works on walls.

Pen Drawing with squares showing what goes in a gallery starting with temperature.

Medieval style diptych frame w modern painting showing a partially submerged gran piano and four Swan Lake cygnets dancing inside it. Hollywood hills burns behind it

One more week to see Masami Teroaka at San Francisco’s Catherine Clark Gallery

I glow pink in the night of my room #Caturday

Shoutout to the San Francisco gallery whose website lists their hours as "Sunday–Monday closed."

I guess that's still clearer than any Italian opening hours I've ever encountered.

wooden inlay making a trompe l'oeil effect of fluted pilasters framing a wooden cabinet with perforated doors ajar. Inside a harp, tambourine, cross, books all in extraordinary perspective rendering them as if they were three dimensional. Extreme technical artistic achievement.

Intarsia (flat wooden inlay, yes flat!) from the Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio ca. 1478–82. Now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos A sex toy has become a symbol of resistance in Minnesota and beyond.

Dildos have become a symbol of resistance against ICE in Minnesota and beyond. @hallielieberman.bsky.social reports:

At SF State, Slow Gestures Accumulate Into Acts of Resistance The exhibition ‘slow burn’ features artists who counter a pressure for urgency with thought-provoking works.

As I was saying, don't sleep on your local colleges. SFSU has put on an exhibition more interesting and bold than the big institutions who seem to be afraid of their own shadows these days. Free admission, San Francisco!

Tiny baby is too tiny for 9lb. Surely 9oz.

Three more days to stream the New York City Ballet in Madrid for free

Balanchine's Serenade, Square Dance and Justin Peck's The Times Are Racing, the greatest? of his 'sneaker ballets.'

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

This S.F. school has become one of the city’s best free art museums A beloved once-lost San Francisco sculpture has quietly returned to display. It’s the best reason yet to visit this campus’ underrated collection of public art.

Y'all, don't sleep on your local colleges. They have outdoor art, indoor galleries, theater (that's often really good!), museums, free talks on all kinds of subjects, etc. etc. You don't need to be enrolled to benefit. [gift link]

Ecstatically ceramic little taupe flask with glaze in slightly darker hue looking like a melting leaf with veins drooling down its round belly.

Ecstatically ceramic. Just exquisite.

Flask (Japanese, Asuka Period), 7th century C.E.
12 3/8 x 10 3/8 x 7 1/4in. Fort Worth, TX, Kimball Art Museum.

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"Lipton recalls watching as generative AI began to erode confidence in traditional artwork documentation and provenance... That realization led Lipton to co-found Numeraire Future Trends, which creates biometric-level digital identities based on an artwork’s physical makeup."