Doc Baroque
@roguearthistorian.bsky.social
I'm Doc Baroque: an artist, art historian, and Caravaggio expert with dual MFAs and a PhD in Art History. My blog explores art history through request-driven, scholarly posts. Unapologetically Indigenous.
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My profile is a place of respect and professionalism. Hateful or bullying remarks will not be tolerated. Violators will be "hung, drawn, and quartered," have Count Rugen’s torture device cranked to 100, and if all else fails, you’ll be blocked. Consider yourself warned!
Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) is the painter who makes it impossible to see a powwow as background color ever again.
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Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) is the painter who makes it impossible to see a powwow as background color ever again. In his hands, the arena is not a picturesque scene; it is impact, memory, and volta...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) is the painter who makes it impossible to see a powwow as background color ever again.
Caught in the Grain: How Paper and Presswork Betray a Forgery
Too Smooth, Too White, Too Perfect: Red Flags in the Sheet
Bindings, paper, plates, and presswork are the quiet forensic team in any rare book or print room.
Too Smooth, Too White, Too Perfect: Red Flags in the Sheet
Bindings, paper, plates, and presswork are the quiet forensic team in any rare book or print room.
Caught in the Grain: How Paper and Presswork Betray a Forgery
Too Smooth, Too White, Too Perfect: Red Flags in the Sheet
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November 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Caught in the Grain: How Paper and Presswork Betray a Forgery
Too Smooth, Too White, Too Perfect: Red Flags in the Sheet
Bindings, paper, plates, and presswork are the quiet forensic team in any rare book or print room.
Too Smooth, Too White, Too Perfect: Red Flags in the Sheet
Bindings, paper, plates, and presswork are the quiet forensic team in any rare book or print room.
The Friendly Indian™: How Textbooks Turned Genocide into a Children’s Story
Thanksgiving, as it is popularly imagined in the United States, is less a fixed historical event than a dense tangle of myth, memory, violence, and selective amnesia.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Thanksgiving, as it is popularly imagined in the United States, is less a fixed historical event than a dense tangle of myth, memory, violence, and selective amnesia.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Friendly Indian™: How Textbooks Turned Genocide into a Children’s Story
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Friendly Indian™: How Textbooks Turned Genocide into a Children’s Story
Thanksgiving, as it is popularly imagined in the United States, is less a fixed historical event than a dense tangle of myth, memory, violence, and selective amnesia.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Thanksgiving, as it is popularly imagined in the United States, is less a fixed historical event than a dense tangle of myth, memory, violence, and selective amnesia.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, and in defiance of attempts to erase MMIWG, every “Cup of Coffee” from now through November goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE all donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more. buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, and in defiance of attempts to erase MMIWG, every “Cup of Coffee” from now through November goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE all donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more. buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
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Happy Thanksgiving! I'm so thankful for you guys; Wishing all of you a day filled with laughter, love, and delicious food. May your home be filled with warmth and happiness this holiday! #gr3tetag #dailyquotes #thankful #grateful #BlueHartedFamily
This #SP is a #Thanksgiving gift. Fully vetted,Enjoy
This #SP is a #Thanksgiving gift. Fully vetted,Enjoy
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Here’s a quick recap of where we’ve been so far in the series.... this is your chance to catch up!
Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
Here’s a quick recap of where we’ve been so far in the series.... this is your chance to catch up!
We started by untangling what “first edition” really means: not just any early copy, but usually ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Here’s a quick recap of where we’ve been so far in the series.... this is your chance to catch up!
Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) is the artist who makes it impossible to look at a basket and see only “craft” again.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) is the artist who makes it impossible to look at a basket and see only “craft” again. In her hands, a basket is not a container; it is a courtroom, an archive, and...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) is the artist who makes it impossible to look at a basket and see only “craft” again.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Stolen Buffalo, Rising Stars: How Plains Women Turned Quilts into Weapons of Memory
Star quilts emerge in the nineteenth century as one of the most sustained and inventive forms of visual sovereignty on the Northern Plains.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Star quilts emerge in the nineteenth century as one of the most sustained and inventive forms of visual sovereignty on the Northern Plains.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Stolen Buffalo, Rising Stars: How Plains Women Turned Quilts into Weapons of Memory
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Stolen Buffalo, Rising Stars: How Plains Women Turned Quilts into Weapons of Memory
Star quilts emerge in the nineteenth century as one of the most sustained and inventive forms of visual sovereignty on the Northern Plains.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Star quilts emerge in the nineteenth century as one of the most sustained and inventive forms of visual sovereignty on the Northern Plains.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
A Renaissance Madonna and Child painting, believed to be by Perugino, was found under a garage workbench and sold at a Banbury auction for £685,000, setting a new record for JS Fine Art and being purchased by an anonymous private collector.
Renaissance painting sells for half a million pounds in Banbury
A painting believed to be by Perugino depicting the Madonna and child went for £685,000.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A Renaissance Madonna and Child painting, believed to be by Perugino, was found under a garage workbench and sold at a Banbury auction for £685,000, setting a new record for JS Fine Art and being purchased by an anonymous private collector.
Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material. In his hands, it stops being something delicate and decorative and becomes a memory ...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Preston Singletary (Tlingit) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that glass is just a luxury material.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
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November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
From Shelf Filler to Holy Relic: The Alchemy of Signatures and Inscriptions
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
How Autographs, Inscriptions, and Provenance Turn Ordinary Volumes into Witnesses
A name on a title page can change everything.
Red Power Reloaded: From AIM Jackets to #NoDAPL Memes
Red Power and #NoDAPL are often narrated as separate generational upsurges, yet when we follow their graphic languages, from hand-painted slogans on Alcatraz concrete to vector files circulating on Instagram, the continuity becomes hard to miss.
Red Power and #NoDAPL are often narrated as separate generational upsurges, yet when we follow their graphic languages, from hand-painted slogans on Alcatraz concrete to vector files circulating on Instagram, the continuity becomes hard to miss.
Red Power Reloaded: From AIM Jackets to #NoDAPL Memes
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue.
Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue. Parts One and Two are already live and cover the basics that make or break value: what “first edition, first printing” act...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, this is your cue.
Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral. In his canvases, history is not a solemn parade of white heroes; it is a crime sc...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kent Monkman (Cree, Fisher River) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that “history painting” is neutral.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Regalia Meets Riot Gear: Native Artists Turn Protest into High Art
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Contemporary Native painting and sculpture emerge from lineages that are both continuous with, and radically disruptive of, twentieth-century American modernism.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
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Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
I’m thrilled to say that I’m bringing one of my all-time favo...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Next month, we are finally doing the thing so many of you have been asking for, loudly and repeatedly, on Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.
substack.com/profile/2115...
substack.com/profile/2115...
For Native American Heritage Month, and as this administration erases us, even scrubbing MMIWG info, every “Cup of Coffee” now, Nov 30 goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more.
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
For Native American Heritage Month, and as this administration erases us, even scrubbing MMIWG info, every “Cup of Coffee” now, Nov 30 goes to Native-led MMIWG orgs. I’ll TRIPLE donations. My grandmother was a statistic. No more.
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
buymeacoffee.com/DocBaroque
Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world.
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Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world. In his paintings, spirit has bones and claws an...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend that spirit is some invisible, abstract thing floating above the world.
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Dead Indians, Missing Women, Future Ancestors: Indigenous Art That Refuses to Behave
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
James Luna (Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Ipi, Mexican American), Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, European) have become foundational figures.
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in.
Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in. Parts One and Two are already live and lay the groundwork....what “first edition, first printing” actually means,...
substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the rare book series, now’s the time to jump in.
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Rogue Art Historian (@roguearthistorian)
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.” In her work, the institution turns into a mouth and a stom...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who makes it impossible to pretend a museum is just a neutral building full of “objects.”
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Feathers, Flags, and Fuck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Feathers, Flags, and F*ck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Feathers, Flags, and Fuck You: Native Painters Crash the Modernist Party
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
From the moment Oscar Howe begins to splinter ceremonial dancers into jagged shards of color.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The way Trump lit up around Zohran, you just know JD is at home humping his couch (or Erica Kirk) in a jealous rage. Man never even looked at Elon with that kind of sparkle.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The way Trump lit up around Zohran, you just know JD is at home humping his couch (or Erica Kirk) in a jealous rage. Man never even looked at Elon with that kind of sparkle.
George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon.
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George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon. In his hands, that thin line where water meets sky becomes a fault line, a scar...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
George Morrison (Grand Portage Ojibwe) is the artist who made it impossible to pretend that a horizon is just a horizon.
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Authenticity for Sale: The Indian New Deal, Fake Indians, and Real Native Art Worlds
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth
The Indian New Deal and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) sit at a decisive hinge point in the history of Native North American art.
#nativeamericanheritagemonth