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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 17h

Depth study as part of a new #drawing series: Gesture to arrange notation of space, erasure as addition.

ARCHIVE 4
Pencil, acrylic and mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Measures of oceanic zones by depth, erased.

Unit notation by KM.

Zones (script): photic, dysphotic, aphotic.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 1d

Circle In and Out of a Polygon 2 by Robert Mangold, 1973
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137905

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Panza Collection, 1991

© 2016 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 3d

Great quote from a great long-read comic about + against AI art

Quote from Matthew Inman, writer and artist for The Oatmeal:

"In my experience, the people who are excited about AI art also happen to be some of the most talentless fucking people I've ever met."

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 3d

#Drawing based on measures of sound vs accumulation of mass: the Odyssey’s dactylic hexameter meter set on axis against the repetition (in translation) of the fist line “Sing to me…”

Archive 3
Ink, acrylic, conte & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

#art

Script, truncated and repeated at top edge. “Sing to…”

Dactylic hexameter (incomplete) measure runs in vertical register on the left side.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 4d

Continuing #drawing series; black and white as a way to focus on gesture, text & script.

ARCHIVE 2
Graphite, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Drawing, horizontal text:

ULYSSES; script, erasure by area.

2.631; stencil, broken distribution. Odysseus’s place in the Iliad’s catalog of ships.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 4d

It has turned out that community building is vastly undervalued, but the sheer work involved is daunting, not sexy & you don’t get to hang out galleries. It’s also largely anonymous, which goes against usual artist-style branding…

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 4d

Where did all the “Social Practice” artists go?

Nathan Rutkowski @nrutkowski1.bsky.social · 4d

I think all the aggravation of community building is an artwork.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 5d

New #drawing series thinking about fictions of literature, mythology, and material. Forcing myself to work in black & white, so the series relates to printing & film trying to introduce time as an element of visual process.

ARCHIVE 1
Pencil, acrylic & mixed media on paper
15” x 10.5”

Painting in grisaille.

Text in descending registers at different scale: FRAME/ SECOND.

Sprocket holes measure the margins

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 9d

Similar with artists who've had rigorous crit sessions; it's probably similar across people training in creative fields. Figuring out how to define your work when there is no "right" answer mush change you.

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d

Would love to see research on how the high volume of feedback designers are asked to metabolize every day impacts their personality traits and personal lives.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 9d

Are the CRa digital (Articheck)? Each notation should have a corresponding detail photo. You could do an entire installation or suite of prints.

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Rachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 9d

so good, especially these reframing moves:
- Instead of “Why am I procrastinating?” ask, “What am I protecting myself from?”
- Instead of “How can I write more?” ask, “What would make this feel safer?”
- Instead of “Why can’t I just get it done?” ask, “What do I need to feel supported right now?”

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 9d

Career Advice | Toward a Trauma-Informed Writing Process

What if writer’s block is not something to “push through”—but instead a bodily response worth listening to and attending to with care, Aurora Chang asks. https://bit.ly/42WhYtq

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

A woman works on a laptop, a mildly distressed look on her face. Crumpled-up pieces of paper lie on the table next to the laptop.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 9d

When the art book you ordered 2+ years ago finally shows up out of the blue and unannounced!

RH Quaytman monograph titled “Book” - Front cover.

RH Quaytman monograph titled “Book” - spine with title.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 12d

That's probably another deep-dive (or just regular topic) I'd like to hear about: works that are marginalized by genre labels and don't reach the audience they deserve.

Although maybe that applies to all of Sci-Fi and fantasy...

Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 12d

I've been wondering what it would take for her work to be more well known and adapted. Prejudice is an obvious answer, but I also wonder if some of it wearing the "YA" tag hurts it.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 12d

Nnedi Okorafor's works are fantastic. Her focus on African stories, that don't privilege a white male superhero type protagonist in a Western-European setting is very refreshing and opens up genre to whole continents being ignored.

Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 12d

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Postcolonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting western anglosphere markets.

Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

#JohnZurier new #painting at @peterblumgallery. There’s an interesting sense of weight in the paint & gesture for these. Giving a subtle nod to Philip Guston and Raoul De Keyser.

“May-October, 2024”
Oil on linen
21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches

May-October, 2024
Oil on linen
21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches

Proper left edge showing color variations and texture in shades of green, and underpainting/ pentimento.

“An Evening in March, 2025”
Oil on linen
29 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches

“An Evening in March, 2025”
Oil on linen
291/2 x 25 5/8 inches

Proper left edge showing raw linen and a scraped/ impastoed surface.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · Aug 11

a typewritten note that reads:

all forms of resistance are ethical under occupation

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

My original inclination was to focus on handwriting and script as a way to generate abstract imagery and organizations of space, but they became a darker meditation on a possible future, advancing like storm clouds across the ocean.

Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

It expanded into other literary sources found in Antoni Tàpies memoir ‘Fragments for an Autobiography’, written under a fascist dictatorship.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

The Prologue drawings are group from the summer and fall of 2024 that started as an exploration of Moby Dick and Melville’s classification of whales and took further inspiration from 19th century bookbinding and modern oceanographic measures...

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

That thing as an #artist where you start updating your website with new work, and realize that you never actually completed the last update.

www.briandupont.org/prologue

23 drawings (which means mixed media, epoxy, and collage paintings on paper) completed last summer.

Prologue — Brian Dupont

The Prologue drawings are group from the summer and fall of 2024 that started as an exploration of Moby Dick and Melville’s classification of whales and took further inspiration from 19th century book...

www.briandupont.org

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t think the new range of trucks and SUVs are the answer, though. I was really happy to see Nissan release the Titan (sort of a favorite of mine), but the Dodge Caravaggio was a failure, so I guess that’s the end of that.

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Brian Dupont @briandupont.bsky.social · 13d

Spotted a Honda Oddyssey double parked & it made me think about how inappropriately cars are named. Do you really want to link your product to Odysseus’ 10-year journey? That was not a good trip (and it was supposed to be a short one, too). I guess at least they didn’t name it after Theseus…

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 15d

Mary Shelley created Sci-fic

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 15d

"The film, written and directed by del Toro, adapts Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel into a gothic sci-fi horror story"

Shelley's novel was a gothic sci-fi horror story, genius

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