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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 2h

These people actually looked at what's going around us and decided this is what's needed right now...? (And ps, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is actually a great name for a museum..!)

prince is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and wearing a fur vest .

ALT: prince is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and wearing a fur vest .

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, in three weeks I'll be talking about my Van Gogh book at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/enviro...

Screen shot of Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard page: "The Environment Forum with Michael Lobel: Van Gogh and the End of Nature"

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 1d

Vija Celmins, Drypoint—Ocean Surface (Between First & Second State), 1985 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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gregorg @greg.org · 2d

Cheerios (2007) is seven megalithic representations of the cereal by Minnesota post-minimalist sculptor Jud Nelson. It is installed in a courtyard of the Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed corporate headquarters of General Mills. greg.org/archive/2025...

Art at General Mills/Cheerios

YouTube video by General Mills

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite objects at the Art Institute of Chicago is this Dorian Gray necktie Ivan Albright painted- I think for one of the film's producers www.artic.edu/artworks/145...

Necktie painted with gruesome portrait of Dorian Gray

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 3d

Came across this by accident but am absolutely loving this video highlighting librarian Jacob, who works at library in Alexandria, Virginia. Would love to see more videos highlighting librarians, their work, and their singular personalities..! If you want an antidote to doomscrolling, this is it:

Jacob Baker | I Am Alexandria Library

YouTube video by Alexandria Library Virginia

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 3d

May her memory be a blessing🙏

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

Photo-realistic drawing of a cat snoozing on a cane-seated chair

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d

Can't quite tell if your comment is serious, but if it is: the panels are from one of the great comic book graphic novels of all time, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons's Watchmen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

Watchmen - Wikipedia

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 4d

Carnes Brothers Music
Elkader, IA

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d

#caturday

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d

I'm assuming it's conté crayon or similar www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

Conté crayon - National Portrait Gallery

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d

Berthe Morisot, Young Woman Knitting, c. 1883 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Impressionist painting of a woman knitting in an outdoor garden setting, an empty chair in front of her

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d

Berthe Morisot, Young Woman Knitting, c. 1883 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously, thanks for your work on this. I'll try to boost where I can-

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 5d

🚨I know there are too many emergencies going on right now to even keep count, but this is alarming: imminent selling-off of our country's cultural heritage, in this case DC building with major New Deal murals by Ben Shahn and Philip Guston🚨

Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 6d

Re-posting my Tuesday story on the imminent sale and likely destruction of government-owned murals by Ben Shahn and Philip Guston. The Trump administration is a cascade of emergencies; this one requires rapid mobilization by preservationists. Followup tomorrow.

newrepublic.com/article/2010...

The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing

Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

newrepublic.com

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 5d

Full view of Thomas Cole, "The Course of Empire: Destruction," 1836, from collection of the NY Historical Society emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/4159...

Painting of classical scene of destruction, fires, crowds fleeing, just really bad shit happening all around

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 5d

Today's "art history can be fun!" activity: tag yourself in Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire: Destruction," 1836. It's always fun, kiddos, when art history feels relevant to events today

Detail of painting of an empire being destroyed, with people just going batshit crazy, things collapsing, etc.: this may feel very relevant to your experience in 2025

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d

If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area and are a fan of art, cats, and cats in art, Harvard curator Mitra Abbaspour will be giving a talk on that very drawing on Tues. 10/28 harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/gal...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

Kiyan Williams, "Ruins of Empire II or the Earth Swallows the Master’s House," 2024 www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/a...

Sculpture of a dark, cracked classical architectural facade listing as if collapsing, with American flag above

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

And fwiw this has to be one of the most @greg.org sentences ever written: "Thankfully, unlike federal court documents, the New York State Supreme Court e-filings are free, and now I have almost 500mb of depositions and exhibits."

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

Love this one- thanks for posting

A conservator's condition report for an Andy Warhol Campbell's soup can painting, with lots of written text annotating an image of the painting

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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · 7d

CfP for a panel on the polemic of illusion and materiality in the transcultural context for the upcoming AAH annual conference at Cambridge. This panel will be convened by me and Sumi from Kyoto University: forarthistory.org.uk/questioning-...

Questioning the Illusion/Materiality Polemics in a Transcultural Art History - For Art History

Ever since the establishment of the perspectival system in Western art, pictorial illusion has been pitted against materiality. Seminal works such as Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form and Hubert Damisch’s A Theory of /Cloud/ have helped to solidify this dichotomy. Panofsky’s Eurocentric perspective may have prevented him from engaging with non-Western examples, while Damisch’s […]

forarthistory.org.uk

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 7d

Hope you get well soon Jeremy🙏

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