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Robin Cembalest

@rcembalest.bsky.social

Journalist, educator, Instagrammer, former ARTnews editor, SVA faculty. I teach writing and career skills to art professionals. Find my upcoming free workshops at RobinCembalest.com!

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Sublime opening for Amy Sheraldโ€™s โ€œAmerican Sublimeโ€ @whitney.org

03.04.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rest in power Nona Faustine, fearless and beloved photographer who made history visible, using her body as content and tool

21.03.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yale Center for British Art reopens with newly conserved Louis Kahn building, reinstalled collections galleries, & J.M.W. Turner & Tracey Emin shows, Emin neon in lobby

21.03.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œMestre Didi: Spiritual Formโ€ unites art by the Afro-Brazilian sculptor & spiritual leader (1917-2013), who reimagined Candomblรฉ ritual objects as artworks in their own right, with works by artists with shared interests in African visual languages @elmuseo.bsky.social

13.03.2025 13:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This free class will be awesome!

06.03.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"(Re) Generations": Howardena Pindell, Byron Kim & Rina Banerjee select works from @newyork.asiasociety.org collections to situate their new & existing works.

05.03.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Plastic fantastic: Borinquen Gallo with her art made from caution tape, bags, & more at New Yorkโ€™s wonderful Materials for the Arts @mftanyc.bsky.social

21.02.2025 13:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Demanding space and dethroning the male โ€œgeniusโ€: @debkass with her reunited โ€œThe Art History Paintings,โ€ created 1989-92, at Salon 94

20.02.2025 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yasmin Ramirez & @arlenedavila.bsky.social, editors of โ€œNuyorican & Diasporican Visual Artโ€, at their book launch with Lee Quinones, an artist featured in the volume, with work by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz on screen @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social. Groundbreaking survey published by @dukepress.bsky.social

17.02.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Keeping it real: John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres celebrate their 4-decade collab creating life-cast portraits at their opening at James Fuentes.

Kevin, subject of โ€œKevin in Thought,โ€ strikes a pose with his likeness from 1988.

14.02.2025 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Finally attended one of @rcembalest.bsky.socialโ€™s legendary social media talks๐ŸŒŸ

Whatever the digital landscape evolves into, itโ€™s always important to be prepared, well-informed, and to leverage the tools at our disposal to create both informational and experiential content.

13.02.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Using Augmented Reality to visualize virtual versions of โ€œThe Gates,โ€ Christo & Jeanne-Claudeโ€™s iconic Central Park installation, 20 years later, via @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social

Models, drawings, photos of the original 23-mile installation featuring 7,503 Gates are at The Shed

11.02.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Works by women artists that look like they could have been made yesterdayโ€”but werenโ€™t

๐Ÿฐ Brenda Miller 1970s sisal wall sculpture at Zรผrcher
๐Ÿชบ Lucia Nogueira 1988 at Luhring Augustine
๐Ÿชข Juanita Guccione 1940s Surrealism at Lincoln Glenn
#๏ธโƒฃ Susan Fortgang 1981 impastoed gridded painting at Firestone

10.02.2025 14:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Artist Lab: Promotional Writing for Professional Artists | Creative Capital Creative Capital is a nonprofit, grantmaking organization with the mission to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work, to amplify the impact of their work, and to foster sustainable ar...

Free workshop just posted! ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Promotional Writing for Professional Artists โœ๏ธ Hosted by @creativecapital.bsky.social ๐ŸŽญ Learn to write with less stress and more success ๐Ÿ“ท For creators of any genre ๐ŸŽฌ creative-capital.org/events/artis... ๐ŸŽต

07.02.2025 16:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exploring the non-auditory dimensions of sound: Christine Sun Kim uses musical notation, infographics & language to share her Deaf lived experience in her survey show @whitney.org

06.02.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Thereโ€™s something funny about the female gaze: Alina Perez at Yossi Milo, Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben, Mira Schor at Lyles & King, Nicola Tyson at Petzel

05.02.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alone again, naturally: huge survey of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

04.02.2025 13:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Smokinโ€™ pots: 4 shows with cutting-edge ceramics

Takuro Kuwata at Salon 94; Simphiwe Mbunyuza at Kordansky; Sarah Rosalena at Sargents Daughters, Rubรฉn Ortiz-Torres @wallachartgallery.bsky.social

02.02.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LA Chicanx en NYC: rafa esparza with Beatriz Cortez in their collab at Americas Society; Rubรฉn Ortiz Torres at @wallachartgallery.bsky.social, Alfonso Gonzรกlez Jr at Deitch (just closed)

01.02.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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POV: You quit Meta & joined @bsky.app, but you donโ€™t know how it works. So I made a Bluesky onboarding guide for perplexed art professionals. Sign up for my newsletter to get it: robincembalest.com#newsletter

28.01.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Befuddled by IGโ€™s new changes? Stuck on your artist statement? Join my 3 FREE Artist Lab workshops with @creativecapital.bsky.social! Series begins Weds, 1/29. Sign up and learn more robincembalest.com/upcoming-wor...

24.01.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Episode 24: Robin Cembalest
YouTube video by The Art Pod Episode 24: Robin Cembalest

How did I reinvent myself from ARTnews editor to Instagram influencer? How do I see so many shows? And what did I ask Warhol? Find out in my interview on The Art Pod! youtu.be/j6p5frgsgG8?...

23.01.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hi everyone! Looking forward to connecting & reconnecting & figuring out how to make best use of this app! ๐Ÿฆ

23.01.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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