Emily Watlington
keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social
Emily Watlington
@keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social
is this thing on??

art critic and senior editor, Art in America
I wrote about the pleasures and perils of hot girl feminist amid this autumn's Feminist Figuration Fall www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
The Pleasures and Perils of Hot Girl Feminism
New York galleries offer a kind of Feminist Figuration Fall, with shows by Chloe Wise, Ambera Wellmann, Sasha Gordon, and Ren Light Pan.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Why Look at Animals," at EMST Athens - essential show, will rip your heart out if you have one www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Athens Exhibition Says the Revolution Could Begin on Your Plate
“Why Look at Animals,” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) will rip your heart out, if you have one.
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July 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Damn overheard dimes square Deutsch: “Ich habe so viel Geld” or, “I have a lot of money.”
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Emily @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social is the art writer whose recent pieces I most urgently need to and want to catch up with. Always read her !
May 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I wrote about the iconique Bob Flanagan; if you don't know his work, I recommend remedying that ASAP www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Bob Flanagan Showed How Sex and Disability Turn the Body Inside Out
Flangan's cult classic, Fuck Journal, is being reissued by Hanuman Editions, with forewords by Sheree Rose and Johanna Hedva.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Someone, presmuably in need, stole my package that unfortunately contained a $15K per dose specialty medication, one that should have been delivered a week earlier (I'd already missed an injection).

Pretty good snapshot of what American feels like rn
April 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What's the German word for that knot of feelings upon not recognizing your friend becuase of Ozempic
April 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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great essay reviewing two books about disability, ecology and climate change - Sunaura Taylor with Disabled Ecologies, and LaToya Ruby Frazier with Flint is Family, from @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social

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Climate Change Is Ushering in an “Age of Disability”
The water we drink changes and the air we breathe is changing alongside our health. Sunaura Taylor, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Asad Raza show us how.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My apt has been mysteriously smelling like cigarette smoke for weeks. Which sucks, because my asthma is already not under control.

I just caught a man standing otuside my window, which is cracked, and BLOWING SMOKE INTO IT.

Why?!!!
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A B12 deficiency side effect that NO ONE is talking about is the frequency with which, after discusing B12, D12 songs get stuck in your head
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My Band
YouTube video by D12 - Topic
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March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Wrote about a film I saw in Norway in November and haven't stopped thinking about. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Anna Odell Was Impregnated in a Psychiatric Ward, Then Made an Unlikely Film About It
Her film, Rekonstruktion – Pysket (Reconstruction – Psychiatric Ward), 2024 is on view at the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Norway through March 9.
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February 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I talked to a bunch of Lynchian GOATS so we could pay our respects 🙏 Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Alex Da Corte, etc.! www.artnews.com/p/how-david-...
How David Lynch Gave Generations of Artists Permission to Be Weird
Lynchian artists like Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Alex da Corte, and Trey Abdella pay respects to the great American filmmaker.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It makes me so sad the way avian flu is being covered only as a food supply issue/ human health threat.

Birds are amazing I don't want them to die !!
February 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I reviewed Christine Sun Kim's Whitney survey, and wrote about why it matters that her politics are also art www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
At the Whitney, Christine Sun Kim’s Advocacy Is Also Her Art
Kim's survey is the first major museum show to allow an artist confronting disability to be as expansive as she is.
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February 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
tfw you google something mildly niche and the AI presents you with a sentence you yourself wrote 😭
January 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Tried to convey my complicated feelings about this great big show 🌀🌀

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A Sweeping Survey of Disability Arts Claims Everyone Is, or Will Become, Disabled
“For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, features artists like Joseph Grigely and Beverly Buchanan
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January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM