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really wish i had time rn to stare at this cy twombly painting long enough to figure out how it was actually made. it looks like writing, but it absolutely was not written. also it's 8 x 12 feet, and twombly was 80.
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a brushy mottled dark green background of an 8 by 12 foot painting has several washed white loops like cursive ls or calligraphy, each marked by long thin vertical drips of the watery paint. note 1 by cy twombly at sfmoma
January 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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the we'll be greeted as liberators emoji
hesgeth lookin shiny in a quarter zip in a fake sit room with a monitor with twitter behind him, and a giant emoji bigger than his head on it giant we'll be greeted as liberators emoji and a venezuelan flag underneath from twitter somewhere idek
January 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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meanwhile, Marsden Hartley, Fig Tree, 1926-27
a contorted curvaceous tangle of white painted branches of a fig tree against a dark, maybe even black background, with a bit of the same white picked up in brush stroke rocks, with a tiny caption printed underneath because this 1926 painting by marsden hartley is in a private collection and only turned up in some catalogue like once
January 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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the doors were designed in 1993, fabricated by 1997, and installed posthumously when the house was completed in 1998. the architect, hugh newell jacobsen, has a photo prob from 1998. the knapps put house the house on the market in 2011 and sold in 2013 to nobu.
a deceptively intimate village like entrance facade to a 13000 square foot mega mansion made of dozens of little simplified house-shaped modules is dramatically lit against the evening sky of bel air california, with the motor court hilariously glowing as if it has been wet down for a photo shoot. the recessed entry has a mirror finish bronze double doorway with black and white hole patterns, like a cartoon swiss cheese, as designed by roy lichtenstein for his collectors, bud and betsy knapp. in a central bricked pit in the middle of the motor court, an uplit sculpture tower, a totem pole of flat, metal, gargantuan cartoon models of brushstrokes in green, yellow, and white, loom against the darkness, another late lichtenstein, from his era where what could be realized far outstripped what should be. via the website of once-principled architect hugh newell jacobsen, who did use this motif to powerful effect at one, indeed at many, points in his own career.
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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I worry that by posting this 300px snapshot of the bronze doors roy lichtenstein made for the knapps' bel air megamansion the roy lichtenstein foundation will now own all my intellectual property, but w/e
a petite white woman in a fanciful red and white printed coat took a selfie in the polished bronze double doors designed by roy lichtenstein to look like swiss cheese at the limestone entry vestibuile of the knapps' 1990s mansion in bel air california. a giant lichtenstein brush totem is reflected behind her, in the center of the mansion's motor court, and behind that, a thick grove of trees. the roy lichtenstein foundation owns the rights to this image and, now that i've posted it without their express written permission, my firstborn child ig
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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'in one sitting"
the most corrupt evil and demented person to ever occupy the white house stands in the east room under a literal portrait of abraham fucking lincoln, his orange grin, hands wide, gesturing at a conference table absolutely filled with piles and stacks and and silver trays and cake stands of what has to be the coldest mcdonalds food imaginable, literally piles of it like three dozen big macs on one tray and thirty filet o fishes on another, just endless, with two towering gold candelabra with long white tapers, unlit, i think this was an ap photo or whatever who tf cares at this point, the one thing it's not somehow is fake.
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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I guess the most amazing thing about Jane Birkin's original Hermès Birkin bag selling for EUR8.6 million last year is that lsraeI just banned her favorite charity, Médecins du Monde, and 36 other international aid organizations, from operating in Gaza greg.org/archive/2026...
a smiling thin white french woman in chambray and jeans with little white sneakers sits gayly in a chair with her leg slung over the arm, and a black hermes birkin bag with medecins du monde stickers on it between her feet. she is in the corner of an expensively cluttered but not opulent home office, with jumbles of framed photos of presumably other famous people and family on the walls, the shades pulled down for the photo. jane birkin posing with her birkin bag in a photo sotheby's dgaf about captioning or providing any info about
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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"Indians long ago knew that Music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away" -John Cage, 1965, and again in 1993, on the back of my Rolywholyover t-shirt greg.org/archive/2025...
a slightly wrinkled, cream colored t-shirt with a greytone image of a view across a low table out a large window toward deck and railing, beyond which is a foggy landscape with spruce trees close to the deck, from a 1993 john cage exhibition at moca in los angeles the back of a cream t-shirt for rolywholyover a circus, a 1993 john cage exhibition at moca los angeles, with a quote from cage printed in grey: Indians long ago knew that Music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away
December 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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sometimes it feels like everything i know about furniture i learned from exhaustive auction catalogue lot essays, but now literally the only thing christie's cares about this shaker desk is not its curved legs or wonky drawer, but that it was once bought by some rockefellers greg.org/archive/2025...
the back of a reddish brown shaker writing desk of hickory and pine, we're told, is distinguished by the thin curved braces in a different wood and finish on either side of each very thin rear leg, which form a v, supporting the desk in ways the shakers never imagined? being sold by a rockefeller at christie's
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Glenstone swag alert: $2 shopping bag
A translucent white shopping bag with glenstone printed in surprisingly large font, with an Ellsworth Kelly postcard and an rh quaytman book partly discernible inside
December 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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rephotographing reproductions of photos gets so much attention, i forget that sherrie levine also made watercolors of photos of paintings, and i straight-up did not know she made pictures of soutines greg.org/archive/2025...
a framed watercolor painting of a photo of a painting by chaim soutine of a pale white musician in a dark suit, against a dark background, all flattened to a single watercolored surface, sold at christie's in 2017
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Chaïm Soutine, le Petit Garçon, 1934 greg.org/archive/2025...
chaim soutine painted this small uneasy white child in pale blue against a slightly darker blue background on a small canvas in 1934
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Thinking of you at the cvs
A regal black Saint Nicholas with a long red velvet robe and a curled crook, half off at the cvs
December 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Sam McKinniss, Nan Goldin's Press Conference, 2025, published alongside David Velasco's Equator essay, "How Gaza Broke The Art World" www.equator.org/articles/how...
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a curly red haired middle aged white lady in a black suit sits, tense, in a black directors chair, as white arms holding recorders and microphones enter the image from the left, and a figure in a black t-shirt with perhaps a keffiyeh around her waiste walks behind in the white floored, black box space of the neue nationalgalerie in berlin. nan goldin's press conference is a 2025 painting by sam mckinniss of a november 2024 opening event of the artist's retrospective where she spoke out against israeli genocide in palestine. this painting was published by equator dot org in december 2025
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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ngl an eames folding screen painted by christopher wool would have rocked at one point, but atm, all i can think of is lvanka sitting in her eames chair in front of her wool, and this collab is cursed even without the name-chasing geneva socialite who flipped it greg.org/archive/2025...
an eames molded plywood folding screen stands on a concrete floor in a white cube gallery. it is covered with a convoluted pattern of all over sinews and loops of black spray paint, which christopher wool knocked out in 2002.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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paging do ho-suh
the corner of a do ho suh floor module, a low square table of polished steel, but the top is filled with a dense mass of tiny figures, all with their arms raised, and showing the molded weight of a glass tabletop pressed on top of them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Max Schumann's risograph Flag Book (2025), with paintings based on snapshots from protests against the US/Israeli genocide of Palestine, is back in stock at Printed Matter www.printedmatter.org/catalog/69235/

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a spiral bound book open to a full page painted picture of a protest where four palestinian flags ripple against a blue sky, brushily painted and printed on risograph by artist max schumann from an anti-genocide protest, sits on a rough diamond steel plate, via printed matter dot org
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Wolfgang Tillmans can't mention on insta the name of his foundation which gets proceeds from the sale of his leftover Pompidou posters, because they'll throttle it and try to get him to pay for ads, but it's betweenbridges.net
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a wolfgang tillmans poster from his 2025 exhibition at the pompidou has three overlapping photos of his, with an eclipsed moon the largest at the center, and a swirling purplish fluid abstraction on the left, and an early i-d magazine fashion photo of his two white friends wearing 90s indie frocks. selling at between bridges dot net
December 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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my variation pales in comparison but thank you!
a holographic sticker of a debord ape yacht club ape in a turtleneck, round glasses, bad haircut, and a cig is in a clear pouch, affixed to the certificate of authenticity for the debord ape t-shirt, which has a debord quote, in both french and english: the spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes image, written in the beautiful cursive taught in french primary schools.
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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TIL this painting in Heated Rivalry is abstracted from the book cover in the same way Douglas Coupland abstracts paintings from the iconic Canadian landscapes of Group of Seven painters. Which could mean nothing. greg.org/archive/2025...
two emotionally confused hockey players in love sit with their arms folded on opposite ends of a dark sectional sofa, under a painting that is the geometric abstracted version of the cover of the book that tells the story of their love. a geometric abstracted version of a painting of a sunset reflecting on a canadian lake is mostly red triangular shards of light against a mustard sky on top, a dark horizon of mountains, and some reflection of the sky reds in the water of a lake below. by douglas coupland, based on a painting by tom thomson cover of heated rivalry with an illustration of two hockey players facing off on a largely blue field and rink. the one on the left is asian and wears red white and blue. the one on the right is white with brown hair and wears black and yellow. a vivid red and yellow impressionistic sunset over a darkening horizon of trees, with a reflection of the red sky and black forest in the water, a 1915 painting by tom thomson
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I guess we will try the Swiss ambassador’s spotted lantern fly poop honey
A cold white hand holding a glass jar of dark honey with a label of the Swiss ambassador’s residence and a picture of a leafy tree filled garden
December 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Zomg merch
A white hoodie with the ikea logo printed in hi reflective plastic holy smokes
December 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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barnett newman's broken obelisk in 1980, after the nazi graffiti had been mostly scrubbed off.
cf. greg.org/archive/2023...
a daytime 1980 press photo of barnett newman's rust-colored steel sculpture, broken obelisk, now with the neo nazi vandalism mostly cleaned off its pyramid base, sitting in a drained but not quite empty reflecting pool. to the left is a single majestic even sculptural oak tree. toward the back, on axis with the sculpture, is the flat brick entrance facade of the rothko chapel in houston. the sky is bright and uniform, but cloudy. i bought this vintage print from the houston chronicle's archive in 2018, but for a while thought it best to just keep quiet and let the nazi bullshit pass. screw that
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Ry Rocklen really did turn this old phonebook into a nickel-plated, immortal art object, and then let his domain name expire. What is art but a mystery? greg.org/archive/2025...
a dissheveled curled phone book is spread open and encased in copper and nickel plating, a sculpture by ry rocklen
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"Are you unfurling the—"?
"The limited-edition knit blanket rendition of the cover of issue no. 56 (Spring 1973), featuring Meditation on the Theorem of Pythagoras by Mel Bochner that's supposed to start shipping December 15th, but isn't guaranteed for holiday delivery? Yeah. Yeah I am."
a young asian woman with chin-length hair and a white sweatshirt looks down as she unfurls a black and white cotton blanket in front of her. the blanket replicates the cover of the spring 1973 edition of the paris review, which is dominated by a white on black image by mel bochner with a grid of dots emanating from each side of a right triangle, a meditation on the pythagorean theorem, it's called. a small chill white terrier sits in front of the blanket, which, like the 19th century nyc apartment where this is happening, is bathed in the bright raking light of the morning sun. a marble fireplace mantle behind the woman has an appropriate number of objets on it, and a small wood framed mirror. next to it is a small rhododendron in a pot. the left side of the photo is still in shadow. the blanket is supposed to begin shipping december 15 2025
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM