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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 10h

www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Your Sweater Weather Guide to the New York Gallery Scene, Brought to You by the Critics' Table

The art world will be ready for round two of fall openings later this month. Don't let October slip by without catching these shows.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 15d

free link, five reviews
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90 Minutes on the Upper East Side: Johanna Fateman's Fall Art Guide For the Neighborhood

Our critic's walking tour includes Jeffrey Gibson, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Nancy Holt, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and P. Staff.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 1d

Weaponized incompetence and incompetents with weapons, both really big right now

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 1d

New for TCT, John Vincler: www.culturedmag.com/share/?cm_sh...

Cady Noland’s Show Is Not as Bad as You May Have Heard. But John Vincler Likes ‘IKEA’ Better.

Our critic visits Gagosian for one the season’s buzziest shows, then visits Ciccio for a reinstallation of a 1996 conceptual-art cult classic.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 29d

A gift link for my profile on Ambera Wellmann for Cultured / the Critics' Table.
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Ambera Wellmann Delivers on the Hype With a Two-Gallery Banger This September

The artist Ambera Wellmann invites Johanna Fateman into her studio for a look at her (sort of) post-figuration era.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 3d

October with a "c," that is.

Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 6d

I'm very happy to share a gift link this morning for David Rimanelli's TCT review of the wonderful @naylandblake.bsky.social shows at Matthew Marks, through Otober 25. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick

Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 8d

Gift link for Brian Droitcour's latest for TCT!
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Seeing Through the Slop: Brian Droitcour's Guide to Digital Art That Slaps

Our critic finds inspiration in new work engaging with AI, gaming, and social media by Sarah Friend, Mindy Seu, and more.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

thank you, that means everything

Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

sometimes I pretend this is twitter c. 2014; it never lands

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

diptyque is so out

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

JD Vance lighting a diptyque candle, doing his evening wind-down, skin care, gratitude list: grateful he can tell Joy Reid she should be grateful and then have that enter my consciousness and make me go a little extra insane tonight.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s so bad. So bad.”

Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 5d

going to knock on my daughter's door and get the only taylor swift take that matters.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

Plus substack.com/@johannafate...?

Johanna Fateman | Substack

I didn't want anyone else to start a Substack account with my name.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 4d

For your Sunday reading: David Rimanelli reviews @naylandblake.bsky.social's 3-show fall event in Chelsea ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick

Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

www.culturedmag.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 5d

going to knock on my daughter's door and get the only taylor swift take that matters.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 6d

Last weekend to see Porpentine and Friends at haul. Read @bdroit.bsky.social’s review here www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

An image (digital drawing) by porpentine in a palette of black white and purple. It shows an “iron fairy” in the doorway on the left, addressing a pierced subject (head and shoulders only).

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 6d

I yam an icon of queer conceptualism y'all.

Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 6d

I'm very happy to share a gift link this morning for David Rimanelli's TCT review of the wonderful @naylandblake.bsky.social shows at Matthew Marks, through Otober 25. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick

Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

www.culturedmag.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 6d

I'm very happy to share a gift link this morning for David Rimanelli's TCT review of the wonderful @naylandblake.bsky.social shows at Matthew Marks, through Otober 25. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Nayland Blake's 'Sex in the 90s' is Critic David Rimanelli's Chelsea Pick

Our critic finds the icon of queer conceptualism forging a visual language from bunnies, BDSM, and the art history of the very recent past.

www.culturedmag.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 8d

Gift link for Brian Droitcour's latest for TCT!
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

Seeing Through the Slop: Brian Droitcour's Guide to Digital Art That Slaps

Our critic finds inspiration in new work engaging with AI, gaming, and social media by Sarah Friend, Mindy Seu, and more.

www.culturedmag.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 8d

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That NY Magazine Article, New TCT just dropped!

To celebrate the first anniversary of The Critic’s Table, use the code ONEYEAR to subscribe! New York Magazine also honored the milestone (not intentionally) with a feature marking CULTURED’s ascendan...

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 10d

!!!

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 10d

I do have a substack. Although I love my buttondown newsletter, I have to face the facts: It doesn't do the same thing. (But the same information will appear both places.) msjohannafateman.substack.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 15d

free link, five reviews
www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

90 Minutes on the Upper East Side: Johanna Fateman's Fall Art Guide For the Neighborhood

Our critic's walking tour includes Jeffrey Gibson, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Nancy Holt, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and P. Staff.

www.culturedmag.com

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 17d

Doomscrolling at 2am, flat on my back in the dark, I dropped my phone on my face and gave myself a black eye.

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Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social · 20d

Only scream emojis

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