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John Singer Sargent, Clouds, 1900-10, watercolor on wove, 33.3 x 50 cm, collection: MetMuseum Yeah, I think I just need to look at some John Singer Sargent watercolors for a bit.

Luc Tuymans, The Temple, 1996, portfolio of 8 aquatints, 33 x21 in., ed. 35+2AP, published by Peter Blum Editions and rearranged to reflect the order the artist explained them in one time I didn’t post The Temple, Luc Tuymans’ 1996 portfolio of aquatint e…

A big congratulations to the art writing winners of the 2026 Rabkin Foundation Prize: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Damien Davis, Melaine Ferdinand-King, Tyler Green, Screenshot and Alicia Inez Guzmán, Julia Halperin, Jan Tumlir, and Sarah Lewis Beyond the recogn…

Has it really been ten years since I poked through the FBI’s National Stolen Art File?

Lucien Smith, Smashed Pieta, 2015, oil on linen, 6 1/2 x 8 in., stolen in 2015, luciensmithstudio As his friends and admirers rush forward with an outpouring of grief after the too-early death of Lucien Smith, a lot of folks might be wondering what to do…

You can change the color On The Couch: Alexandra Fairweather & Sasha Bikoff on On The Couch via youtube It’s like being a nepo-baby, having a John Chamberlain couch: it takes a lot of work to keep it from being your entire personality.

I guess we know that Warhol screenprinted fabric so Sarah Dalton and Suzanne Moss could make dresses to wear to the April 1964 Stable Gallery afterparty at the Factory.

Warhol Foundation x Avant.Arte Brillo Box Collectables, 2026, starting at 7 x 7 x 5.75 in., $978., via Beyoncé.

Cardboard Louis Vuitton Jewelry Box, 1989, 22 x 11 x 14 cm, ed.300/850, selling at Christie‘s I don’t know what I was expecting with an edition of 850, but I was still surprised to see how many Louis Vuitton cardboard jewelry boxes there are out there.

Lutz Bacher Pizza Party sign installation view, 2018, NYU Steinhardt, via @blankforms_ via @growthandculture, 2021 I love people who see the sign for the Lutz Bacher Pizza Party on the 6th Floor and say, this needs to be saved for the future.

“approx 22 x 30 inches” As a witness to the historic 2023 rupture in the Pomponiverse, when fifteen people at Sotheby’s collectively decided to pay $279,000 for a life-size painting by Jacques Barthélémy De Lamarre, one of dozens known to exist, of a tiny,

While poking around on the Laurentian Library yesterday, I came across a 2014 paper on the history of how people tried to make sense of Michelangelo’s puzzling reality: the classical orders he violated, mathematical composition and proportion, and anthrop…

Installation view of two Rothko Seagram Mural studies at the Laurencian Library, part of Rothko in Florence, organized at the Palazzo Strozzi, 2026, : Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio via brooklynrail I’d have posted about William Corwin’s illuminating review…

Agnès Varda, Nini sur son arbre, 2009, bronze, 33cm tall, installed in the Fondation Cartier’s new Palais Royale space across from the Louvre, and photographed for the Fondation by the epically named Marc Domage. used without permission because, well, keep

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Natural History), M, aka 21 Club, 1991 Felix Gonzalez-Torres showed “Untitled” (Natural History) for the first time in Every Week There Is Something Different, his May 1991 show at Andrea Rosen’s second floor gallery in…

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it,” Jasper Johns has been quoted saying for decades.

As I sat down to post this late last night, I was falling asleep, which will be an important detail for the next post.

oh no, @arthistory.bsky.social succumbing to the allure of the selfie in LACMA’s glare and reflection machine Or maybe let’s not.

Look, I think we all get it: the light in LACMA sucks for paintings.

Mike Kelley, Street Signs, 2004, silkscreen and enamel on aluminum, 15 x 24 in., ed. 72/100, published by CELA/LACE, selling 10 Sept 2026 at LA Modern This sweet Mike Kelley edition at LA Modern next month reminded me of the sweet Louise Lawler edition in…