Spencer Wigmore
@mnarth.bsky.social
Art historian and curator. Views my own.
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Clara Mairs, Halloween, c. 1920 collections.artsmia.org/art/17128/ha...
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Clara Mairs, Halloween, c. 1920 collections.artsmia.org/art/17128/ha...
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Yours is actually less insane than what's written now.
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Yours is actually less insane than what's written now.
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I fucking love buying books.
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I fucking love buying books.
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5. Historians cannot be restrained by the rigidity of citation management software
July 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
5. Historians cannot be restrained by the rigidity of citation management software
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always reposting, it's the rules, like the best lipsynch
(1) that STEM produced more job prospects. Then has been debunked w studies showing employers increasingly seek humanistic skills & this will increase w AI. “when it comes to employment prospects, majors in art history and philosophy outperform some STEM-based counterparts.” according to the Fed/2
College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
www.cnbc.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
always reposting, it's the rules, like the best lipsynch
Lovely essay from my dear friend and former colleague, Maggie Adler, about Texas, art, and the challenges of curation.
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Texas Culture: Reflections from a Fort Worth Curator | Glasstire
Independent curator Maggie Adler reflects on how her perspective of arts and culture in Texas has shifted over the last decade.
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July 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lovely essay from my dear friend and former colleague, Maggie Adler, about Texas, art, and the challenges of curation.
glasstire.com/2025/07/01/t...
glasstire.com/2025/07/01/t...
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation busines...
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April 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
God hasn’t completely abandoned us www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...
West Saint Paul vibes
March 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
West Saint Paul vibes
I know its only March, but Anthony McCann's Shadowlands might be the best book I read all year. An insightful and empathetic study of right-wing radicalization that is as much a work of political philosophy as it is journalism. It's simply lovely and warrants much wider attention.
March 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I know its only March, but Anthony McCann's Shadowlands might be the best book I read all year. An insightful and empathetic study of right-wing radicalization that is as much a work of political philosophy as it is journalism. It's simply lovely and warrants much wider attention.
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A panel from my forthcoming comic on Charles M Russell from the Amon Carter Museum, edited by @mnarth.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A panel from my forthcoming comic on Charles M Russell from the Amon Carter Museum, edited by @mnarth.bsky.social
There's a tendency within the discipline of American art history to focus on unraveling/deconstructing the very definition of what constitutes American art. This is an essential, maybe even foundational component of our work. But I'm often frustrated with how it's approached. 🧵
January 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There's a tendency within the discipline of American art history to focus on unraveling/deconstructing the very definition of what constitutes American art. This is an essential, maybe even foundational component of our work. But I'm often frustrated with how it's approached. 🧵
Today I finally got to see Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (or at least two hours of it), which was near the very top of my art bucket list. It was absolutely extraordinary.
January 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Today I finally got to see Christian Marclay's "The Clock" (or at least two hours of it), which was near the very top of my art bucket list. It was absolutely extraordinary.
I'm not arguing for a tendentious bothsideism. If anything, I’m even more annoyed. But I think this type of work has made me a somewhat better writer.
January 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm not arguing for a tendentious bothsideism. If anything, I’m even more annoyed. But I think this type of work has made me a somewhat better writer.
It’s been fun (or as fun as writing ever gets) to try to articulate precisely what is annoying about scholarship on so-called cowboy painters, while also trying to describe the aspects of this scholarship that are still quite useful.
January 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It’s been fun (or as fun as writing ever gets) to try to articulate precisely what is annoying about scholarship on so-called cowboy painters, while also trying to describe the aspects of this scholarship that are still quite useful.
When you write about cowboy painters, you have to read a lot of annoying scholarship. But you can read this scholarship against itself. You can (and should) point out the jingoism, whitewashing, and mythologizing that it contains. But you can go a step further.
January 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
When you write about cowboy painters, you have to read a lot of annoying scholarship. But you can read this scholarship against itself. You can (and should) point out the jingoism, whitewashing, and mythologizing that it contains. But you can go a step further.
2024 was a year of significant growth for me as a writer, and I think the primary reason was because of how much time I spent trying to accurately summarize scholarship that I found annoying.
January 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
2024 was a year of significant growth for me as a writer, and I think the primary reason was because of how much time I spent trying to accurately summarize scholarship that I found annoying.
One of the great joys of academic life has been watching former peers from grad school come into their own as established scholars with a unique voice and perspective.
December 27, 2024 at 6:14 PM
One of the great joys of academic life has been watching former peers from grad school come into their own as established scholars with a unique voice and perspective.
Detail of Pao Houa Her's "Smoke in the Prairie" (2017), and inkjet print from her extraordinary series "My Grandfather Turned Into a Tiger." It's one of six of Her's works in the MNHS fine art collection.
December 9, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Detail of Pao Houa Her's "Smoke in the Prairie" (2017), and inkjet print from her extraordinary series "My Grandfather Turned Into a Tiger." It's one of six of Her's works in the MNHS fine art collection.
David Lefkowitz, "Accomodation," 1999, oil on canvas. A fun fav from the MNHS collection.
December 7, 2024 at 2:16 AM
David Lefkowitz, "Accomodation," 1999, oil on canvas. A fun fav from the MNHS collection.