Jean-Paul Kelly
@jeanpaulkelly.bsky.social
I’m an artist.
Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto.
Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto.
@nytimes.com These are your photo-editors? I’ve never seen people more out-of-touch. These three people underscore everything wrong with the divisions of wealth in American culture writ large. A celebratory photo of Mary Boone, Schnabel, et al., as a significant representation of the year? Assholes.
Video: The Defining Culture Visuals of 2025
Three photo editors from the Culture desk share their favorite images from 2025.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
@nytimes.com These are your photo-editors? I’ve never seen people more out-of-touch. These three people underscore everything wrong with the divisions of wealth in American culture writ large. A celebratory photo of Mary Boone, Schnabel, et al., as a significant representation of the year? Assholes.
In Canada I’m watching the 60 Minutes CECOT piece CBS shelved. It’s a short item and at its core is an investigation of a Berkeley forensic study of already widely available material, specifically influencer videos of the prison (yes, that’s right).
December 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In Canada I’m watching the 60 Minutes CECOT piece CBS shelved. It’s a short item and at its core is an investigation of a Berkeley forensic study of already widely available material, specifically influencer videos of the prison (yes, that’s right).
Lovely. She’s a force. Nice to see it recognized with this award.
Catherine Telford Keogh has won the Guggenheim Museum’s first Jack Galef Visual Arts Award, a new $50,000 prize honoring “artists of exceptional talent whose work demonstrates innovation, depth, and vision.”
Guggenheim Museum Launches New $50,000 Art Prize
Artist Catherine Telford Keogh is the inaugural winner of the Jack Galef Visual Arts Award.
hyperallergic.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Lovely. She’s a force. Nice to see it recognized with this award.
Unfortunately, agree: and correct to point to the curation and not the art, some of which could done its thing if not assaulted by a lack of perspective and a deadening flow of space. Missing a plot, flummoxed, and flat; but the Freddy Villalobos work did emerge amidst the surfacing.
Made in L.A.’s Anti-Curation Doesn’t Work
The curators’ self described “no-methodology methodology” results in a scattered exhibition that feels bland and curatorially unimaginative.
hyperallergic.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Unfortunately, agree: and correct to point to the curation and not the art, some of which could done its thing if not assaulted by a lack of perspective and a deadening flow of space. Missing a plot, flummoxed, and flat; but the Freddy Villalobos work did emerge amidst the surfacing.
Bari Weiss CBS journalism, CBS News 24/7 this evening… anchor Dana Jacobson: “You may know Gustav Klimt as the artist who put a banana on a wall. Well, he’s at it again. This time selling a work for $240 million dollars.” Yup, no DEI, but all AI.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Bari Weiss CBS journalism, CBS News 24/7 this evening… anchor Dana Jacobson: “You may know Gustav Klimt as the artist who put a banana on a wall. Well, he’s at it again. This time selling a work for $240 million dollars.” Yup, no DEI, but all AI.
@armineyalnizyan.bsky.social In your Considerations for Preparing the Next Federal Budget of Canada, you wrote: “At 13.7% of GDP… health & social assistance and education are the biggest drivers of the Canadian economy”. What is your reaction to these reductions? Can you outline the logic? Thanks!
Canada will reduce international student permits by more than half, budget reveals
“The new study permit caps further erode Canada’s reputation,” said one critic of Ottawa’s plan to next year limit new international student permits to 150,000 from a previous target of 305,900.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
@armineyalnizyan.bsky.social In your Considerations for Preparing the Next Federal Budget of Canada, you wrote: “At 13.7% of GDP… health & social assistance and education are the biggest drivers of the Canadian economy”. What is your reaction to these reductions? Can you outline the logic? Thanks!
@vgasparro.bsky.social Is your next step against free speech and Charter Rights to start lawsuits against the press, intimidation of the judiciary, and silencing by military threat? @mark-carney.bsky.social Remove him from caucus now. Your elbows are slipping.
September 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
@vgasparro.bsky.social Is your next step against free speech and Charter Rights to start lawsuits against the press, intimidation of the judiciary, and silencing by military threat? @mark-carney.bsky.social Remove him from caucus now. Your elbows are slipping.
Everyone hates the mini-Slam schedule between Wimbledon and US Open: they’re too long and dangerous to athlete health. ATP and WTA won’t change. Here’s an idea: cancel #nationalbankopen, which helps fund #tenniscanada. Let’s boycott after TC’s decision to host a genocidal regime in the #daviscup.
September 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Everyone hates the mini-Slam schedule between Wimbledon and US Open: they’re too long and dangerous to athlete health. ATP and WTA won’t change. Here’s an idea: cancel #nationalbankopen, which helps fund #tenniscanada. Let’s boycott after TC’s decision to host a genocidal regime in the #daviscup.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988.
Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.
Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.
March 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Forbidden Colors, 1988.
Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.
Installation shot from ‘The Workspace: Felix Gonzalez-Torres.’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 16 September–20 November 1988.
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Canada, France, Britain, and others offer Palestinians the same poisoned chalice they have offered for decades: recognition without sovereignty, statehood without power, liberation without freedom, writes Ahmad Ibsais. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham
Western countries are rushing to recognize Palestine not to stop genocide but to solve a political problem. They're offering colonial lies dressed up as liberation.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Canada, France, Britain, and others offer Palestinians the same poisoned chalice they have offered for decades: recognition without sovereignty, statehood without power, liberation without freedom, writes Ahmad Ibsais. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
This poisoning of fair use (fair dealing) by AI companies will rot artistic oppositional critique for years. Either side evoking proprietary ownership is a paralyzing weight on satire, parody, quotation, interpolation, appropriation, sampling, remix, and criticality in representational discourse.
A judge's ruling this week opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without the authors' consent.
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors
U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling this week, in a case brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson last year, opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.
n.pr
June 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This poisoning of fair use (fair dealing) by AI companies will rot artistic oppositional critique for years. Either side evoking proprietary ownership is a paralyzing weight on satire, parody, quotation, interpolation, appropriation, sampling, remix, and criticality in representational discourse.
Dara Birnbaum shaped the material we know as the moving image forever; indebted (thanks, @stuartcomer.bsky.social)
May 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Dara Birnbaum shaped the material we know as the moving image forever; indebted (thanks, @stuartcomer.bsky.social)
Listening to the 2025 remaster/reissue of Belly’s sublime “King”this morning. @tanyadonelly.bsky.social Any chance of a Toronto date on the tour? Trade off: I’ll make Belly’s next video, if you want…
April 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Listening to the 2025 remaster/reissue of Belly’s sublime “King”this morning. @tanyadonelly.bsky.social Any chance of a Toronto date on the tour? Trade off: I’ll make Belly’s next video, if you want…
Dear curators, if your exhibition title has a colon, it's the wrong title. Writers, especially academic writers, same goes for you. I mean, take the leap, take a risk, embrace the potential of meaning. Artists, if your artwork's title has a colon, I'm sorry, there is no help for you or your treason.
March 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Dear curators, if your exhibition title has a colon, it's the wrong title. Writers, especially academic writers, same goes for you. I mean, take the leap, take a risk, embrace the potential of meaning. Artists, if your artwork's title has a colon, I'm sorry, there is no help for you or your treason.
I won’t be going to America for a bit. It’s too expensive for Canadians. I also fear that the things that drew me will may be withheld or disappear. It’s sad. I hope to see El Greco’s paintings at the Art Institute, or Cadmus’ “The Bath” at the Whitney, or Ligon’s “To Disembark” at DIA again soon.
March 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I won’t be going to America for a bit. It’s too expensive for Canadians. I also fear that the things that drew me will may be withheld or disappear. It’s sad. I hope to see El Greco’s paintings at the Art Institute, or Cadmus’ “The Bath” at the Whitney, or Ligon’s “To Disembark” at DIA again soon.
“Comeuppance… is an Americanism that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1859… derives from the phrasal verb “come up”, as a case for judgment at a trial, and the common suffix “-ance”, which forms nouns from verbs, such as acceptance from accept, or appearance from appear.”
comeuppance | Word of the Day | March 2, 2021
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March 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Comeuppance… is an Americanism that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1859… derives from the phrasal verb “come up”, as a case for judgment at a trial, and the common suffix “-ance”, which forms nouns from verbs, such as acceptance from accept, or appearance from appear.”
Don’t capitulate.
March 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Don’t capitulate.