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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why is Claude Monet's "Luncheon on the Grass" cut up into two panels at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris? The story really amuses me, but the painting feels poignant, as a sort of last farewell to his wife's innocence and youthful joy. #ArtHistory #PublicArt #ClaudeMonet #EdouardManet

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's an argument to be made for Rodney Mullen, a skateboard visionary, and skating videos as important and influential works of art themselves. Watch the video to see if you agree! #SkateCulture #RodneyMullen #CulturalHistory #VisualCulture

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Authoritarians generally prefer public art that either glorifies or commemorates, and the only subject worth glorifying and commemorating in 2026 is Donald J. Trump. Put his name on it and spray gold everywhere in the Oval Office. Now that's art. Or something. #ArtHistory #Design #ArtEveryday

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can look at one of Claude Monet’s paintings of haystacks and say, "That doesn’t look beyond me." But what you're seeing is the culmination of a hundred different kinds of talent and dozens of years of study that can’t really be taught. #ClaudeMonet #Caricatures #ArtHistory #Art

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Impressionists were radical and revolutionary, painting subjects that were truer to their experience of life. They left behind the evidence of their creation and made art that looked less 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 but more 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦. #Impressionism #Art #ArtHistory

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite ways to learn about art is to watch documentaries, so here are three of my favorites about three incredible artists. #ArtHistory #AgnesMartin #GerhardRichter #JeanMichelBasquiat #Documentaries

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hilma af Klint invented abstraction years before Wassily Kandinsky, but until recently, she was largely left out of art history. But even so, her work still exists and she was a pioneer of abstraction who deserves her place in the public history of art. #Art #Abstraction #HilmaafKlint

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An excerpt from THE MONET AFFAIR, coming in May 2027! Blanche Hoschedé Monet, Claude’s daughter-in-law and a painter in her own right, occupies the emotional center of this novel, and by the end of it, she has more than earned a moment of peace. #BookSky #Excerpt #Art #ClaudeMonet #ForthcomingBook

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Claude Monet's pond at Giverny is a great tourist attraction but also the subject of his last and final masterpieces. Clemenceau urged Monet to make those paintings, but there's an intensity there, embodying the memories of an old man looking back on a long, flawed life. #Art #ClaudeMonet

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A museum can be a formidable place where many become frustrated that they can't see what the big deal is. I’m here to tell you that there doesn’t have to be. Art becomes alive when it connects to us and makes us feel something, and most artists make work to be seen or experienced by you! #Museum

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

After I had called a friend to complain that I was a fool to think I could write, he sent me a copy of A GIACOMETTI PORTRAIT by James Lord. My friend didn’t really explain, but I understood that there was something in the book to take heart from. And yes, there was. #Inspiration #AuthorSky #Creator

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am publishing a novel next year based on the life of the painter Claude Monet and his family. At this point, you may be wondering, why? Or, more to the point, why Claude Monet? Over the coming months, you’ll read many answers to that question here, but I'll start with two. #BookSky #ClaudeMonet

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m 1984, this is a legit pick, but holy shit that was a good year. I’m having a hard time with this challenge. I’m going with this one, not trying to be a deep-cut asshole, but this one was important:

The album cover for Minutemen’s 1984 album “Double Nickels on the Dime.” A photograph from the back seat of a dark-haired young man in a plaid shirt driving a car with a white steering wheel on the highway to San Pedro. His smiling eyes are visible in the rearview mirror.

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Go to hell, Suozzi. You're an appeaser, a feckless suck-up whose plan is to "collaborate" with people who think you're a joke. Your people voted for a leader, not just their procedural vote caster. You won't stand up to authoritarianism so long as you keep your office and false sense of importance

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Duncan Murrell @duncanmurrell.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

For my first post, I guess I’ll just say that Faith Kipyegon is the greatest track athlete of our time. We are lucky to live in her era.

Photo of Faith Kipyegon breaking the world record in the 1500m

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