gregorg @greg.org · 1hthis all made me rethink my dislike for the Expo '74 Book of Mormon Pavilion in Spokane, and now I think everything in Utah from nuclear data centers to dirty soda drivethrus should be built in the style of the Golden Plates Pavilion greg.org/archive/2026... 010
gregorg @greg.org · 1hit predates Calder, but shoutout to Edward Wadsworth's 1919 masterpiece, Dazzleships in Drydock in Liverpool greg.org/archive/2024... 161
gregorg @greg.org · 18hBelgians really did just fill up their bougie little houses with the severest conceptual art around ig? These three Sol LeWitt works of torn orange paper are from a show in Amsterdam of torn and cut works in 1975. MoMA has one, but now someone should get three greg.org/archive/2026... 190
gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026the lichtenstein sculpture of trump's hair, otoh, was ned rifkin's most lasting accomplishment as director of the hirshhorn 130
gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026cf that mud and black-eyed pea sculpture AC Hudgins donated to MoMA just in time resources.culturalheritage.org/osg-postprin... 020
gregorg @greg.org · 28/09/2026This week in Marblehead Pottery Egyptian Revival Bookends I Didn't Know Existed Five Minutes Ago And Now Can't Imagine Living Without news: greg.org/archive/2026... 2161
gregorg @greg.org · 26/09/2026With Spanish fascists about to hand him over to French nazi collaborators, Walter Benjamin took his own life on 26 Sept 1940. I'd only had the vaguest idea of the circumstances of his death and memorialization when I took the kids to Portbou for a fun beach day in 2014. greg.org/archive/2014... 1277
gregorg @greg.org · 25/09/2026In preparing his history of the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Co. and the show of artist banners this weekend at Independent and Marian Goodman Gallery, David Platzker @specificobject.com discovered this unknown, buck wild Warhol banner from the project's summer 1963 debut show: greg.org/archive/2026... 192
gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026so little engagement on my free tibet beanie, y'all really in the tank for the ccp ig greg.org/archive/2026... 1111
gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026this is Marie Laurencin Basket II for Gertrude Stein erasure collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2068... 141
gregorg @greg.org · 23/09/2026norway now requires ads and social media to label when the person's image, shape, or skin have been retouched. and the label has to take at least 7% of the ad area. it's a giant yassified stamp on like everything [h/t tumblr user tpwertmnky] 151
gregorg @greg.org · 22/09/2026Plywood, 1987, one of two Robert Gober sculptures of a sheet of plywood, is coming up for sale, and will go on view at Christie's in NYC this Friday. I saw this one in 1998, and it changed me. greg.org/archive/2026... 2110
gregorg @greg.org · 20/09/2026One thing The Richter Family likes to do is make holiday cards for all their friends and dealers. And I don't care if it'll never be in the catalogue raisonné, this doodled on, signed-by-Sabine[?] New Year's Card from 2001 is my favorite Marian's Richter greg.org/archive/2026... 2183
gregorg @greg.org · 20/09/2026also/except? Christie's is showing the back of this month's Marian Goodman Richter print to be a Hiroshige woodblock print. So what if Marian's other Orchidee II (1988) is different because Richter actually had printed it on Evening Snow at Kanbara (1834)? greg.org/archive/2026... 052
gregorg @greg.org · 18/09/2026After lowkey forgetting they existed, I now love Gerhard Richter's 2002 series of works made of a single pane of glass, which were originally titled, Pane of Glass. This work, GR 876-7, was sold at Sotheby's last yr as Antelio Glas 876-7 with I think a photoshopped 23yo pic greg.org/archive/2026... 051
gregorg @greg.org · 18/09/2026from the Museum Abteiberg archive comes the only account of Gerhard Richter's 180 Colours (1971) being lost for decades, found in a warehouse, restored by the artist, and loaned to the museum when their own roomful of Richters went on tour in 2014 greg.org/archive/2026... 072
gregorg @greg.org · 16/09/2026it's almost never discused, but Ladies and Gentlemen (1974-75) was one of Warhol's most significant series, his biggest commission ($1m), and had a huge influence on his practice. He made like 78 paintings of Wilhelmina Ross, one of 14 trans women of color he paid $50 or $100 to photograph. 182
gregorg @greg.org · 16/09/2026damned if this richard prince instagram portrait doesn't look like it's moment and still do what it set out to do, 12 years later. the power of art ig greg.org/archive/2026... 1111
gregorg @greg.org · 15/09/2026trick question, same guy. there's a whole subreddit piecing together the unified uncle jesse-verse 050
gregorg @greg.org · 15/09/2026took kind of a long look at this R.H. Quaytman painting from her 2012 show at Museum Abteiberg, which has an incredible history of publishing exhibition box catalogues, like this one greg.org/archive/2026... the Museum also has an amazing digital archive www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de 360
gregorg @greg.org · 14/09/2026Roni Horn, The Selected Gifts (1974-2015) was a 2017-18 show at Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo of mostly life-sized photos of 43 gifts the artist had received, including a Felix Gonzalez-Torres puzzle and two copies [lol] of Orlando. [s/o Contemporary Art Library] greg.org/archive/2026... 291
gregorg @greg.org · 14/09/2026I, for one, would like more discussion of Glenn Ligon's black clay Moon Jars, which he began showing in 2019. greg.org/archive/2026... [bluesky handle a heart emoji in a url challenge] 3172
gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026or perhaps I could interest in this Jeff Koons Puppy Platter, for 99.96% less? 120
gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026finally, a way to own Jeff Koons's Puppy without having to be Peter Brant greg.org/archive/2026... 3142
gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026took the day to step back and just look at John Singer Sargent paintings, and set some posts to publish later, it's like I'm blogging in my sleep. i wish every day was 9/11. greg.org/archive/tag/... 061
gregorg @greg.org · 11/09/2026if you need me, i'm just gonna be here for a bit, with the John Singer Sargent watercolors greg.org/archive/2026... 1123
gregorg @greg.org · 11/09/2026at first I thought I was factchecking Luc Tuymans' 1996 print portfolio, The Temple, and figure out its sources, but then I realized its shifting loss of meaning was the point, and then I realized the discourse around the portfolio was just as unstable. greg.org/archive/2026... 041
gregorg @greg.org · 10/09/2026in the 10 yrs since I last combed through the FBI's National Stolen Art File, a 6ft Luc Tuymans painting jacked from a show in 1996 at young David Zwirner's new SoHo gallery has been added, along with a giant 1976 Ellsworth Kelly, and some more personal—and portable—works greg.org/archive/2026... 0175
gregorg @greg.org · 09/09/2026Lucien Smith did not live to see the recovery of the ten little paintings of his stolen in 2015. All were small, representational paintings based on photos, which he began making after leaving NYC for Montauk in 2015. Among them: Racoon in Dress (2015) greg.org/archive/2026... 0172
gregorg @greg.org · 08/09/2026It'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. And now there's a podcast about it: greg.org/archive/2026... 2100
gregorg @greg.org · 07/09/2026part of me thinks if Suzanne Moss had made the allover Brillo Dress the way Warhol wanted her to, there wouldn't have been enough fabric left to make into two paintings [which Warhol apparently gave her]. greg.org/archive/2026... 1113
gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026I see your $1000 Beyoncé wooden record crate, and raise you one $2-3,000 Louis Vuitton cardboard jewelry box: greg.org/archive/2026... 161
gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026blogging is back, baby. after 14 years, @bhoggard.bsky.social just posted again on bloggy.com, an Artifacts interview with Kate Valk: bloggy.com/posts/kate-v... scroll just a couple of posts down, and there's this 2011 post of a book inscription Che Guevara: 041
gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026more arrow-related art-related objects, from The Long March, Lutz Bacher's 2018 show at NYU's 80WSE Gallery: greg.org/archive/2026... 060
gregorg @greg.org · 04/09/2026the Pomponiverse has yet to recover from the 2023 rupture, when a $3000 painting, one of dozens known, sold for $279k. And so this absolutely wrecked painting of a tiny bare-ass dog on a 19th century papier-mache tray has an estimate that'd make Marie Antoinette blush greg.org/archive/2026... 082
gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026It took me a minute to figure out the human profile Michelangelo drew into these profiles for columns he was working on in 1524, but thanks to Jasper Johns, I realized there are two. greg.org/archive/2026... 030
gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026we have finally perfected the recipe for Fabrique granola, which we inevitably run out of before we can get back into the city for more. in unrelated news, I'm cutting back on blogging to devote more time to my new passion: picking flax seeds out of my teeth all day 060
gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026the kid went off to college, and left her faithful bluetooth water bottle Argos, which blinks every twenty minutes, reminding her to hydrate. the battery will last until fall break. 080
gregorg @greg.org · 02/09/2026when I read that the corbels in the corner seemed to "melt into each other," I had to check, because that is not how I remembered michelangelo's laurentian library. anyway, great review of rothko in florence in the new brooklyn rail greg.org/archive/2026... 📷: @arttrav.bsky.social 1133
gregorg @greg.org · 02/09/2026when they moved from their bd Raspail bldg to the Palais Royale last year, the Fondation Cartier destroyed or left behind permanent artworks by Lothar Baumgarten and Agnés Varda. Baumgarten was entirely 404'd from the collection. greg.org/archive/2026... 171
gregorg @greg.org · 01/09/2026again, thanks to @savejazz.bsky.social for prompting a closer look at Felix Gonzalez-Torres works "not on view," a category of objects intended to not be publicly exhibited. Which doesn't keep them from being included in the Reina Sofia show: greg.org/archive/2026... 111