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nothing like the death rattle of the c train to bring me back to life

just once I’d like to see someone with body hair modeling a cut-out top so I don’t have to feel like a chia pet

Where’s Rafaella Carrà when you need her 🥲

My hot take on Cady Noland’s first show of new work in over a decade is up Art in America artnews.com/art-in-america…

incredibly important essay by dan a about the unionization drive at the new museum thebaffler.com/salvos/against…

let’s not forget that act 2 of #theinheritance is the redemption story of a gay trump supporter who never renounces his politics. seems worth wondering why a tony-voting audience identified with this narrative

when the bidet ad appears above philip larkin’s “water” (1954)

serbucks or estarbucks?

when it made the state motto “excelsior” new york really said “we’re spiraling upwards”

one of the best things I saw in São Paulo last month 🖤

A late share, but: I wrote about Robert Smithson and the Dallas airport TGI Fridays for last month’s issue of Art Review

evan moffitt on Adam Pendleton's right to be inscrutable; Geeta Dayal on how a Velvet Underground doc misses the mark; Julie Phillips @jcfphillips.bsky.social on Louise Erdrich's perfectly unpolished pandemic novel; Melissa E Anderson on Joanna Hogg's ambitious sequel to The Souvenir 4columns.org

“ ‘Who Is Queen?’ challenges MoMA to host a set of ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with the museum’s dialectical view of history.”—evan moffitt on Adam Pendleton’s new installation in the MoMA atrium 4columns.org/moffitt-evan/a…

Erika Verzutti’s insatiable appetite for art history: The Brazilian sculptor consumes Modernist masters to better regurgitate them, writes evan moffitt. Read here: bit.ly/3FoUf73

Cambodian artist Sophiline Cheam Shapiro has just performed a solo dance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in front of looted statues. Her performance focused on an 8th century “harihara” statue, a masterwork that was stolen from Cambodia in the 1970s. #dynamitedoug

Very proud to have contributed original reporting on this wild story of art theft and genocide. It reveals the complicity of museums, galleries, and auction houses in trafficking stolen antiquities.

🔥OUT🔥 Right on time and ready to read, here’s a glorious BUTT 33! 100+ pink pages choke full of sex, lust and the desire to create queer new worlds. Link in bio for full content list and info on how to order a copy by mail.

Spent some time this summer with two of the most precise, thoughtful dealers in the business and wrote about how they’ve changed the game. Sprueth Magers nytimes.com/2023/12/11/t-m…

We have learned that after a year-long investigation by 60 Minutes into the looting of Cambodian antiquities, and just days before our story is going to air, the The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning to announce tomorrow, together with SDNY, that the Met will return SOME of their looted