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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1h

An inappropriate celebration of tobacco-derived wealth from an institution that should be interrogating art and art histories instead of promoting what rich people do with their money.

(At least the PMA has kept its gawdawful, semi-authoritarian re-branding away from this platform...)

Philadelphia Museum of Art @philamuseum.bsky.social · Jun 17

In 2026, as America turns 250, we’re celebrating with a story only art can tell. “A Nation of Artists” is a sweeping, once-in-a-generation exhibition presented with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Opening April 2026, only in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Jun 17

Did you know that John Middleton, the managing partner of the Phillies, is also one of the world’s top art collectors?

His “set of masterpieces” will be on display at a major exhibition opening in Philadelphia in 2026.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 23h

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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · 1d

Another not-so-good LACMA theme show cobbled together from the permanent collection. The insistence on a theme narrows our art experience, rather than expanding it. Even the engaging work, like Patrick Martinez’s “Fallen Empire” (the first image), gets cramped.

Review: At LACMA, a rambling theme show of recent contemporary art acquisitions jumps the rails

Museum shows of recent acquisitions are fine. LACMA trying to make 'Grounded' into a theme show isn't.

www.latimes.com

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

The Govan head fake.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for LACMA's Central European collection galleries.

Wait, what's that you say....?

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

But nevermind all that, the museum says with this waste of money that could have gone to staff salaries, curatorial hires, etc.

On the list of recent 🚮 art museum rebrands, this one ranks right there with the Met, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the National Gallery of Art.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Re the @philamuseum.bsky.social's re-branding embarrassment.

1/ Bleh. (Also, bring back the old Metropolitan Museum of Art logo.)

2/ "Revolutionary?!" Are you f*cking kidding? Few, if any, art museums are more conservative, anti-labor, and impressionism-besotted than the long-underperforming PMA.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 1d

This from a museum that has made fighting its staff its brand.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

In historical US art, representations of white mother-and-childs were used to present settlers as more humane and greater than Native people.

The NYT, which refuses to recognize Israeli genocide, is resuscitating a bigoted trope. And today.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Also from 2023.

www.instagram.com/p/CtyxY3jOqc...

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

For example, from 2023.

www.instagram.com/p/CtwMV8SOCW...

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

In historical US art, representations of white mother-and-childs were used to present settlers as more humane and greater than Native people.

The NYT, which refuses to recognize Israeli genocide, is resuscitating a bigoted trope. And today.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Ed Ruscha, Norm's La Cienega Sinking into the Petrochemical Swamp, 2006.

(I wonder if Ruscha has planned a(nother) update.)

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Ed Ruscha, Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964.

Or, more to the point:

Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 3d

This museum is still doing this.

And should not be.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

This is a time of federal terror and state violence.

No museum, especially one in a majority non-white city, should be requiring visitors to fill out a survey, to reveal information about themselves, for entry.

The Baltimore Museum of Art should immediately halt this policy.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Cannot overstate how much Mckinney brought it here. Eleven out of five stars.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast!

Danielle Joy Mckinney at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (with a cameo from Barkley L. Hendricks' 2014 visit to the program).

manpodcast.com/portfolio/no...

🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
🔊: open.spotify.com/episode/1Pqj...

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"Contrarian?" JFC. Do better.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Gross. An unserious institution (as you'd expect from that director).

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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · 6d

This is very sad news. Appalling, too. Advising about art in a murderous absolute monarchy where free speech is illegal is obscene.

Outgoing MoMA Director Glenn Lowry to Advise Saudi-Backed Biennial

“I’m very interested in the Middle East,” Lowry said in an interview, revealing that he will work as an advisor on the Islamic Arts Biennale.

hyperallergic.com

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast!

Danielle Joy Mckinney at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (with a cameo from Barkley L. Hendricks' 2014 visit to the program).

manpodcast.com/portfolio/no...

🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
🔊: open.spotify.com/episode/1Pqj...

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

"Patriotic?"

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

This is a time of federal terror and state violence.

No museum, especially one in a majority non-white city, should be requiring visitors to fill out a survey, to reveal information about themselves, for entry.

The Baltimore Museum of Art should immediately halt this policy.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Would have enjoyed more pictures of the building disaster, and a detailing of Heidi Zuckerman's inspiring inspiration....

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Trumpists are neo-Redeemers.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 9d

That last OCMA director hire was an epic disaster. LA-area museum boards, including LACMA and MOCA, are on a stunning run of poor directorial hiring.

Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 9d

The UCILOCMA, sure.

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