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Elizabeth Briel

@ebriel.bsky.social

Artist and paper researcher in Paris - sometimes Hong Kong IG: @ebrielart http://ebriel.com/contact

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Art contemporain : "les collectionneurs commencent souvent par une œuvre sur papier" Art Karlsruhe est la deuxième foire d'art contemporain d'Europe. Elle ouvre ce jeudi 5 février et se termine dimanche 8 février : 2700 m2 d'œuvres modernes et contemporaines, 180 galeries de 18 pays. ...

Art Karlsruhe: "Collectors Often Start with Works of Paper"
'The diversity of works on paper is greater [than with other media]. And I have the impression that artists who work with paper are more spontaneous' - Kristian Jarmuschek, director
france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/al...

07.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I know, girl. I know.

06.02.2026 23:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ditto to seeing Suzanne Vega posters here in Paris

23.01.2026 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not by any means
My soon-to-be Guatemalan sister-in-law has had to postpone her US marriage ceremony (planned for Minneapolis where much of my family lives) to my brother indefinitely

16.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The one big social media habit that we need to all break is going "look at how stupid this is!!" Yeah, we all know. Don't give it oxygen.

16.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

Question: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
Réponse: YES! (Il s'agit bien sûr de Marlow Moss)
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

13.01.2026 07:00 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

I lived in these neighborhoods aged 20-23, within a few hundred meters of each site. Cannot begin to explain how this institutional violence becomes tangled into memory when it happens on your street, where you greet your neighbors, in the places where you love and fail and build and live your life

08.01.2026 11:22 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Art at Amtrak Art at Amtrak invites artists from New York and New Jersey to create original art specifically for Penn Station.

Today's inspiration: artists commissioned to design public works for stations as part of the Art at Amtrak program @amtrak.com www.amtrak.com/at-the-stati...

08.01.2026 10:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
‘What a week, huh/ Lemon it’s Wednesday’ 30 rock meme showing a woman in glasses on the top panel and a man below, except if says ‘what a year/ it’s Jan 2nd’

‘What a week, huh/ Lemon it’s Wednesday’ 30 rock meme showing a woman in glasses on the top panel and a man below, except if says ‘what a year/ it’s Jan 2nd’

03.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

A fascinating artist and life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bo...

02.01.2026 16:46 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cecilia Giménez, the painter who 'botched' the Ecce Homo dies aged 94 The Borja resident, who rose to fame in 2012 for her widely mocked restoration of Elías García Martínez's fresco 'Ecco Homo', has died at the age of 94.

If I was working the NYT end of year death list, I would write this one up so HARD.

Rest in Power Cecilia Giménez, creator of Beast Jesus.
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

29.12.2025 18:39 — 👍 111    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 4
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How many painters are there?

Millions and they're all pretty good.

Everybody is creative.

Tony Cokes, Pittsburgh.Isms (still), 2022

29.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Comment établir mes devis ? — Kit de survie du créatif Marronnier ultra-éculé sur les forums et les réseaux sociaux, la question par laquelle tout commence pour un indépendant : comment établir un devis, comment évaluer le tarif d’une prestation ? Prêts ?...

Another site with suggested charges ranging from Paris to the rest of the country takes into account the many costs that go into producing and sharing work
kitdesurvie.metiers-graphiques.fr/articles/com...
it's not been updated for current cost of living so you'll want to add 50percent + (in FR)

30.11.2025 03:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great resource for those working in the visual arts in France. It breaks down charges associated with producing, exhibiting, and sharing artwork in varied contexts
reseau-astre.org/ressources/r...
This particular site is specific for Nouvelle-Aquitaine but can be modified for anywhere in the country

30.11.2025 03:19 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Explorations of Lisbon patterns with Ceramicas Vicente last December. Like many visitors I was mesmerized by the tiles that simultaneously protect and enhance the city's architecture

25.11.2025 23:47 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally managed to understand mid-tones when painting ceramic glazes at Ceramicas Vicente, Lisbon, December 2024 by interpreting the same motif over and over www.instagram.com/p/DD0liOsIWG...

25.11.2025 11:18 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Oh would love to see those

25.11.2025 11:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Cobalto / 鎂"
Cobalt blues from my research of the past year:
five centuries over two continents - Sintra, Porto and Lisbon; then Jingdezhen, Macau and Hong Kong

24.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Only now am I catching up with this thread!
Some images from my Azulejo / Chinese tile painting tile research from the past year.
Early tiles in Portugal showed strong links with North African geometric designs. Clay was rolled in a relief pattern then colors are filled in like cloisonné enamel

24.11.2025 11:05 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Newest addition to the bucket list:

24.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

OMG beautiful and terrifying. what are they made of?

21.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for this! Fascinating topic

21.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
stained glass window depicting a black christ

stained glass window depicting a black christ

'60 yrs ago Wales gifted a commissioned stained glass window to a community in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of a bomb that killed four black girls
John Petts visited Alabama and opted to construct a stained-glass image of a Black Christ.'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_W...

07.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 132    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1
A green hardback of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

A green hardback of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Inside the book an inscription, in beautiful swooping cursive penmanship:

To Major R.C. Miller

For those moments while you’re waiting for the forecast to verify - a few meditations of another misunderstood genius.

Lt. Mac
August, ‘56

Inside the book an inscription, in beautiful swooping cursive penmanship: To Major R.C. Miller For those moments while you’re waiting for the forecast to verify - a few meditations of another misunderstood genius. Lt. Mac August, ‘56

My father, rooting about his shelves, found a book he’d inherited from his father. Opened it for the first time. Inside an inscription.

My grandfather, Robert C Miller, was a US airforce metrologist. He developed the first tornado forecast. The inscription is during the development of that forecast

05.10.2025 11:29 — 👍 50    🔁 5    💬 8    📌 1

Ça me rappelle au passage le projet Guilt nostalgia de @ebriel.bsky.social ici :)

www.ebriel.com#/gilt-nostal...

26.09.2025 09:42 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks John! This is a great overview

25.09.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
pale blue rags hang from wooden shelves next to stacks of papers under a stone ceiling

pale blue rags hang from wooden shelves next to stacks of papers under a stone ceiling

This week in the studio: full-on paper production. Rags hang from every surface and dehumidifiers work overtime

22.09.2025 21:13 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I remember going with my parents (a surgeon and an anesthesiologist) to a museum in France filled with medieval era medical instruments, and when we got to the section on gynecological instruments they were shocked to see that what was used in the 1400s was basically what is used now. Thread.

10.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It's World Physical Therapy Day! Shoulder Wheel, oil on canvas by Francis Criss, 1944, commissioned by the US Army and a peculiar kind of masterpiece:

08.09.2025 09:52 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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