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mgregorywriter.bsky.social
@mgregorywriter.bsky.social
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Arts journalist/art critic
Member AICA-USA
Awards @ NY Press Club, Press Club LI, NYPA. Regular contributor to Newsday. Bylines Observer OurTownNYC TheChief WomanAroundTown LIPulse
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mgregorywriter.bsky.social @mgregorywriter.bsky.social · Mar 28
That's what they say, left
My response, right
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Did not see this coming..
"Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn" in gingerbread takes 1st place!

From
Val Castronovo
in
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Gingerbread Bakeoff: NYC Landmarks That are Good Enough to Eat Returns
The holidays are upon us and the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) has you covered. For the fourth consecutive year, Gingerbread NYC: the Great Borough Bake...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"a total original, an artist who put the rock-heavy forms of sculpture on a diet" 🤩

Wonderful Ruth Asawa review from Deborah Solomon @deborahsolo

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gift article from @nytimes.com You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
Ruth Asawa Turned Wire Into Her Lifeline
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November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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If you can't get to Rome, but would love to see the Bible of Borso d'Este
The library of Congress lets you browse it here

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November 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Here are the winners of the 2025 National Book Awards
Author Rabih Alameddine won for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Other winners include a book for young people about orphans on the run in Iran during World War II.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
national program provides up to $3,000 to professional dancers w. financial emergencies & loss or lack of recent/current live performance work from circumstances out of their control.

accepting applications through 5:00 PM ET Tuesday, Dec 2.
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Marvels abound in this season's museum exhibitions

My picks for
Our Town, West Side Spirit and Chelsea News

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10 Must See Museum Exhibitions for this Winter
The fall season in New York heralds the best and brightest, and our art museums are stepping up with extraordinary exhibitions. Here are ten shows worth visitin...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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From Robin Pogrebin @nytimes.com

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
After the Death of Two Titans, Where Are the Next Giant Art Patrons?
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November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/a...
Night of Modern Art History, Night of Spectacle at Sotheby’s
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November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Records Fall During $706 Million Night at Sotheby's, Turbocharged by Blue-Chip Lauder Trove | Artnet News
Leonard Lauder Collection helped Sotheby's reach the highest evening total in its history. A Klimt portrait fetched $236.4 million.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Borso d’Este Bible—one of the finest Renaissance manuscripts, richly gilded and rarely displayed—is now on show in the Italian Senate for the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations.

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November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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apollo-magazine.com Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 7d
‘Donas endured multiple disappearances: she left the modernist scene; her works were rarely exhibited and her historical profile has been low’ – Juliet Jacques welcomes an exhibition in Antwerp that puts the painter Marthe Donas back in the picture
Marthe Donas, the modernist who went missing
The Belgian painter was a notable figure in avant-garde circles, but stopped making art for two decades. An exhibition in Antwerp puts her back in the picture, writes Juliet Jacques
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November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Between two bricks, unplanted.

Astonishing news from the garden
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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apollo-magazine.com Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 11d
‘Be it a pale morning glow, the blush of a setting sun or the period of blue light that colours the atmosphere before dark, the light in Ancher’s paintings commands attention.’ Lucy Waterson on the luminous art of Anna Ancher
How Anna Ancher saw the light in Denmark
The first exhibition in the UK of the Danish painter’s work offers a glimpse into life in her rural community, writes Lucy Waterson
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November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 16d
“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist
Painted in 1934, this scene of Kensington Gardens captures interwar urban leisure as distinctly feminine, sociable, and modern. Two women settle on the close-cropped grass beside London’s Round Pond, their pale dresses and hats catching the milky summer light. The nearer figure, in a softly patterned gown with a red sash and bow, turns toward us with a composed, knowing half-smile. Behind her, a friend lounges in a bright blue dress and brimmed hat playing with a small white and black terrier who stands upright to beg for food at the edge of a white picnic cloth. A pink teapot, cups, and sliced fruit sit carefully arranged in the foreground. Beyond, the still pond, toy sailing boats, strolling figures, and dense green trees complete a shimmering, open-air London park scene. The women’s relaxed postures, fashionable dress, and companionable dog suggest autonomy and pleasure in public space, while the tea service and play of boats tie domestic ritual to cosmopolitan outdoors. Johnson’s light, broken brushwork and high-keyed palette emphasize movement and reflected light rather than strict detail, aligning her with contemporaries who translated Impressionist-inflected color into British park and garden subjects. The painting invites us into a gentle spectacle of everyday joy at a moment when such calm was historically fragile. Esther Borough Johnson, a British painter trained at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School, and Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey, built her career with portraits, genre scenes, and floral studies that foregrounded women, children, and cultivated landscapes. A regular exhibitor at major London societies, she negotiated a male-dominated art world while working in close dialogue with her husband, Ernest Borough Johnson, yet maintained a distinct sensibility rooted in observational intimacy and luminous color. Her style was attentive to place, affectionate towards sitters, and quietly highlighted women’s everyday lives and leisure.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Hate it when hair hurts! 😂
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12d
A cartoon by Roz Chast, from 2022. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“Yoko always says [that] the job of the artist is not to destroy but to change the value of things. The amount of potential in that is incredible to me."

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Yoko Ono Retrospective Invites Audience to Join in the Creative Process - Galerie Magazine
"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" makes its only U.S. stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where over 200 works are on display
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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"Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice"

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engagedroadmap.bsky.social Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social · 18d
@louisehopper.bsky.social spoke at our ENGAGED session at #NORFest2025 in the @ria.ie @norfireland.bsky.social She brought the focus back to people. Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice
#openresearch #publicengagement
Louise Hopper spoke at our ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap session at #NORFest2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). She brought the focus back to people. Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice, how we work with each other, how we share knowledge, and how we make decisions that have real impact on real lives. Louise reminded the room that open research is not just infrastructure or compliance. It is trust, care, and responsibility. If we want systematic change, we have to look at how we relate to our colleagues, partners, and communities. That is where change takes root. #openresearch #publicengagement
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Got 10 minutes? Get a new perspective, via the wonderful Lee Krasner

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10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Seasons’ by Lee Krasner (Gift Article)
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“Don’t be worried about rejection. I say that now."
- Joan Mitchell

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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“I wasn’t the least bit interested in feminist art, and I still am not...We were feminist before the feminists came along.”
- Sonia Getchoff

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November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Matsuo Bashō

From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon beholders.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Anna Ancher, At Noon, 1914 Danish painter #WomensArt
Painting of an open doorway looking outwards from the interior, on the floor inside and out are wooden clogs, two pairs, one adult sized and one pair to fit a small child
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM