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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 6d

love this gallery—glad to see them profiled!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

In London, a California Gallery Shows Expat Mexican Surrealists

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 10d

loved sixties surreal—smart, gorgeous, important! many new to me artworks and artists

much to think about with regards to surrealism’s continued relevance (& see more down the line with the essays in my volume Queer Surrealism, tackling 1920s-present, WWI to the AIDS crisis)

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Macarena de la Vega @macarenadlvdl.bsky.social · 23d

It is a new academic year, and there is a new call for proposals by #DoctTalks. The organizers welcome any topic within the broad fields of architectural history and its related disciplines. The deadline is 26 of September, don't miss out!

doctalks.net

DocTalks

DocTalks is an informal, peer-to-peer, weekly online forum by and for PhD students and early-stage Post-Docs in architectural and urban history.

doctalks.net

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 24d

per your recommendation, we went yesterday just under the wire!

was so enamored by the different media but the consistent use of bright accents & loved his depictions of Paris & these two west African figurines

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am so excited to go to this show when I’m in LA! So brilliant

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · Sep 5

SCMS highlights the achievement of Pao-chen Tang on the recent publication of his open-access book "The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema".

Announcement graphic highlighting Pao-chen Tang’s new open-access book The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema, published by Amsterdam University Press.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

$Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.$

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Sourcing sensational objects to sell has been the central mission of Sotheby’s since Samuel Baker…”

lovely sounds in that sentence (and an interesting story!)

How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How a Billionaire Owner Brought Turmoil and Trouble to Sotheby’s

Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market.

www.newyorker.com

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 29

I love that! I’ve gotten very into ornaments too (space efficient souvenirs that you keep away most of the year haha!)

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 28

apply by tomorrow!

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 15

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.

Paper proposals due Aug 29!
caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

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Poster for a panel on Elemental Media in the 19th century, featuring a diagram of aquarium infrastructures and a painting of an excavation.

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ooh! for art surveys, I’ve often asked where they’ve encountered art recently (since it’s often outside of museums)… maybe if they collect anything or what they’d make a museum of?

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 28

that is so wholesome!! thematic ice breakers are the best!

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 26

never knew there was this Calder here!! surprising to see as I exited the New York Public Library haha

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 22

always see this in the east village!

www.nytimes.com/card/2025/08...

Behind the Curtain: Inside the Revival of New York’s Vintage Photo Booths

From late-night bar lines to teen-fan frenzies, a retro ritual is making a comeback 100 years later. Meet the quiet artisans and modern disciples keeping the magic alive one black-and-white strip at a...

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 13

just submitted my CAA proposals to other panels🤞

but I’ll be in Chicago either way—so get your abstracts in to my co-hosted panel!

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 15

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.

Paper proposals due Aug 29!
caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 11

“But Nelson’s point seems to be that all efforts to reproduce the natural world, whether motivated by crassly commercial interests or ones that are, ostensibly, more edifying, are much alike in the end.”

The Futility of Simulating Nature www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

The Futility of Simulating Nature

In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.

www.newyorker.com

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ooh, thanks for the heads up! I’ll be in LA in November (and saving your piece as a critical guide!)

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Aug 4

took the Boston to Ptown ferry on a “rough seas” day and it felt straight out of this Sargent painting

one of my faves from the Met show, such a weird perspective!

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 25

list of amazing panels for 19th-c art historians at CAA 2026! my panel on elemental infrastructures is included here, so ponder and apply!!

ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network @ecrfrenchart.bsky.social · Jul 24

CFP: CAA 2026 - Find our highlights for Long Nineteenth-Century Scholars for next years CAA annual conference. www.ecrfrenchart.com/opportunitie...

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Jul 19

Pavel Tchelitchew, Leaf Children, 1940 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136034

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Jul 16

Of potential interest to our colleagues!

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 15

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.

Paper proposals due Aug 29!
caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

please repost and share!

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · Jul 15

Repost to help share my new course! Fall 2025 @huntercollege.bsky.social

I wish I could have taken a lab class on Native American x African American science and history as an undergraduate. So now I’m teaching one as a prof and yes, we’re whale watching in Manhattan. And learning to DJ.

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 16

incredible WWI image: “The double exposure was accidental but stirring: even in the happiest moments, the war crept in.”

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Image and caption from the New Yorker: A double-exposure plate showing an image of the newlywed Tempests and their bridal party, along with a portrait of two British soldiers.
Photograph © Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection / Kerry
Stokes Collection

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 15

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.

Paper proposals due Aug 29!
caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

please repost and share!

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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 9

such an exciting institution 🥰

Hunter College @huntercollege.bsky.social · Jul 9

It’s not just our location near NYC’s top cultural spots — #GenZ loves Hunter College for its affordable, high-quality art programs, diverse classes, & real value. #Artschool, minus the debt. Department Chair Sara Greenberger Rafferty explains more via @gothamist.com: gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

NYC art schools see record-high application numbers as Gen Zers clamber to enroll

Yes, even in this economy.

gothamist.com

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