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Brian Dupont
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An artist making paintings out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.

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Adventures with public sculpture, or, I’m pretty sure that’s not supposed to be leaning like that…
December 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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OK success finally after 2 hours of trying, thanks to tips found on Reddit

not sure how accessible this system is for all families without any evident tech support beyond a list of tips that didn’t address the likely problem with the video I was uploading—its resolution, not file size
have attempted & failed to upload my kid’s “student introduction” video to the NYC DOE’s high school application system so many times I’ve lost count

ended yesterday this way, starting today this way, whee
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Nathlie Provosty in ‘Threshold Speech’ at Bortolami Gallery. I really enjoyed the play between concrete planes of color and trompeloeil effects that tilt and shift the surfaces to jagged effect, especially at this monumental scale.

#art #painting
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Jacqueline Humphries, Beat the Devil, 2008
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137241
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
RASTER DRAWING (FIELD).
Graphite, mixedM media, & collage on paper
10.75” x 7.5”

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November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Nicole Eisenman has a great #painting show at 52 Walker Street showing possibilities between representation & the invention of images & meaning through material & scale. These connect to the lineage of grand history & religious paintings while subverting what is a patriarchal form.

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November 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My favorite Judy Pfaff in her amazing show of twisting, turning, & unfurling assemblages at Cristin Tierney gallery.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Doris Salcedo, Widowed House IV, 1994
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137255
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New James Siena at Miles McEnery.

Right now I’m thinking a lot about black & white, so this caught my eye, but there’s an intriguing sense of color through the whole show, and the work on canvas results in diaphanous light emanating past an irregular network.

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November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A great suite of Joan Mitchell drawings as a part of ‘To Define a Feeling, Joan Mitchell 1960 - 1965’ at David Zwirner gallery. I love the use of heavy black charcoal to build a sense of shifting masses out of raw gesture.

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November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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then all this desolate vacuity of life went away
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#JoanMitchell at David Zwirner Gallery. I love me a triptych. Especially one that plays with subtle shifts in movement and mass across the panels that ultimately affects the viewer’s sense of time in the #painting.
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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yesterday I observed myself put all my rage in a little black box so I could get through the day

last night I dreamed about screaming at people: first, a smug dirtbag misogynist—I yelled that he lacked moral courage

& then a transphobe, at whom I yelled fuck you fuck you as I chased them away
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Great #JoanMitchell #painting show at @davidzwirner. These two ( at the beginning and end of the show) break out of a predominantly forest nocturne pallet of deep blues and greens with flashes of color that explode off her gestures.

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November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Reuben Nakian, The Burning Walls of Troy, 1957
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136542
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just this.
Words can’t express my rage at the establishment Democrats tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Any “deal” that ends with Dems just getting a pinky promise in return is a mistake.

The American people are suffering because Republicans refuse to stop healthcare costs from skyrocketing. An agreement that doesn’t fix that reality falls massively short.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
From completed #painting to work in process. Not completely back to the drawing board, but fixing things that have bothered me as it sits around the studio and gets looked at more and more; it’s still not quite done.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I always enjoy the subtle eccentricities of Richard Rezak’s #sculpture; here are 2 small works exhibited as a part of Luhring Augustine’s “Sliced Tropics & Cosmic Dancers”

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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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the Prospect Park Lullwater, maybe a third of the way through today’s walk

my teammate led us along the edge of the Prospect Park Lake on paths I have never been on

how much I love after all these years to experience disorientation & new vistas in a park I know so well
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Running Arcs (For John Cage)” at @gagosian is somewhat the expected experience from a #RichardSerra, but it he experience with the #sculpture is still amazing.

Against Serra’s expressed wishes, the attached pics are in color.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM