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gregorg @greg.org · 1h
this 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...
a postcard from the 1974 world expo in spokane washington depicts an architectural model of the mormon pavilion, which is shaped like a giant three ring binder of golden plates, with the stack on the right being higher. the entry hall under the rings is enclosed in glass. a statue of the angel moroni on a column stands in front of the right half of the pavilion, and fake trees and grass surround it, even though the actual pavilion was built on pylons over the river. via visitexpo74 dot com, but these postcards are also all over ebaya vertical wood block is wrapped in overlapping copper strip, with the strips on one side bent slightly up so they form the equivalent of a space or window, while preserving the overall sense of opacity. a tall antenna like stick on top, an architectural model for a railroad signal box by herzog and de meuron in moma's collection
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gregorg @greg.org · 1h
it predates Calder, but shoutout to Edward Wadsworth's 1919 masterpiece, Dazzleships in Drydock in Liverpool greg.org/archive/2024...
a very large painting of the prow of a grey white and black stripe painted battleship with four tiny fitures painting the hull below the waterline red, parked in a drydock made up of pipes and industrial elements in similar intersecting patters to the ship's camo. by edward wadsworth, who made a realistic painting of an abstract subject to get around a memorial competition's ban on abstraction
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gregorg @greg.org · 9h
new utah nuclear powered data center just dropped
the mormon pavilion at the 1974 spokane world expo is two rectangular structures of the same dimension but different heights, finished in gold, with three giant rings connecting them, as if the golden plates joseph smith got from the angel moroni were a giant three ring binder. the structure is on pylons over water, and reflected in the water, with a clocktower of some kind on the right, thematically unrelated.
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gregorg @greg.org · 18h
Belgians 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...
a square of orange paper with two diagonal tears  from the upper corners toward the center, a 1975 artwork by sol lewitta square of orange paper with two tears from the left edge toward the center, a 1975 artwork by sol lewitta square of orange paper with two tears from the center of either side toward the center of the page, a 1975 artwork by sol lewitt
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gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026
the lichtenstein sculpture of trump's hair, otoh, was ned rifkin's most lasting accomplishment as director of the hirshhorn
a roy lichtenstein sculpture on loan from the hirshhorn to the reach, of a giant brushstroke that looks like a wisp of windblown hair on a narcissistic wannabe dictator's combovered head sits on a strip of lawn with newly planted trees in the foreground and the kennedy center in the background
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gregorg @greg.org · 29/09/2026
cf that mud and black-eyed pea sculpture AC Hudgins donated to MoMA just in time resources.culturalheritage.org/osg-postprin...
screenshot of a conservation photo on the left and diagram on the right for a david hammons sculpture cast from mud and black eyed peas in a traffic cone, surrounded with a halo of wires tufted with african hair clippings. the diagram identifies the elements and materials in a key, and the caption includes the credit line for the ac hudgins family, who donated the 1976 sculpture to moma.
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gregorg @greg.org · 28/09/2026
This 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...
two incredible wedge shaped earthenware bookends with an egyptian scribe sitting criss cross applesauce inside a little niche, each covered with a deep blue glaze that, because of the simplified design of the scribes, or the smoothness of their features, seems really thick and luscious and i want these mf now please even tho i only came across them five minutes ago and the idea of impulse shopping for antique bookends as the world tears itself apart feels a little uncomfortable ngl
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gregorg @greg.org · 26/09/2026
Gavin Newsom's ex-wife and Don Jr's ex-gf said what
gavin newsom and his wife kimberly guilfoyle sprawl in black—a suit and no tie for him and a turtleneck tank gown for her, across the deep red and gold aubusson rug newsom grew up on, in the home of ann and gordon getty. two gilt french chairs upholstered in deep green velvet darker than the green damask drapes behind them, and a pair of gilt italian candelabra stands six feet tall flank the terrace window overlooking san francisco harbor, where his getty connections helped newsom secure the mayorship. an ornate gilt encrusted credenza looms in the back corner. everything in this pic, which originally ran in harper's bazaar in 2004, has since been auctioned off to the highest bidders
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gregorg @greg.org · 26/09/2026
With 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...
a 2014 photo of a large maroon painted metal sign in portbou spain with info on the four stops of the ruta walter benjamin. the philosopher's name is on top of the sign in white, a black and white photo portrait of him, with thick slightly rumpled hair, his eyes lost behind thick round glasses, and his hand resting pensively just under his bushy dark mustache, is next to a map of the little port town nestled in a tiny valley, which does not in any way indicate that the fourth stop, the actual benjamin memorial, is in a cemetery on top of a hill, not a simple stroll around the beach promenade. taken by greg.org
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gregorg @greg.org · 25/09/2026
when do i start
an offically licensed prince unisex hooded bathrobe in purple velour with gold accents and a huge gold artist formerly known as prince symbol embroidered in gold on the back, from house of merch
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gregorg @greg.org · 25/09/2026
In 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...
a black and white photo of an andy warhol banner that reproduced a white round 1960 campaign button with a newsprint headshot of pat nixon, an uptight white lady with the words pat for first lady underneath, at 7 by 5.5 feet, a documentary image found in teh archives of american art by david platzker in 2026
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gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026
Get in, losers, we’re eating His Majesty The Emperor’s fukujinzuke
A bowl of the first Japanese curry rice of the season, except the curry is in the bottom and the rice is next and the top is covered with an injudicious amount of red pickled daikon and who knows what else although if you zoom in to the empty bag of niitakaya fukujinzuke on the right you might find the ingredients, but that’s not important now; the point here is it’s made, as the bag says, by appointment of his majesty the emperor
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gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026
so little engagement on my free tibet beanie, y'all really in the tank for the ccp ig greg.org/archive/2026...
an actylic knit beanie with a simplified version of the tibetan flag, with a gold sun against a radiating red and blue background, and a white perspectival base that reads free tibet in black, sits on an enzo mari pine tabletop, a memento of a tibetan rights protest march that just passed through my neighborhood in dc, during the sept 2026 visit of xi jinping
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gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026
FREE AS IN TIBET
A middle-aged white guy selfie of the top of his head with a sick Free Tibet beanie a Tibetan protector just gave him when he asked where to get one, in the middle is a large protest march on Connecticut avenue with a very large turnout
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gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026
xi jinping jamming up my neighborhood like
screenshot of the original facebook post of the burmese woman doing jazzercize in a traffic island while the motorcades racing toward the unfolding coup  passed behind her on the empty ceremonial boulevard of rangoon? anyway this post is about xi jinping closing  all the streets in my neighborhood and sending all the traffic down 1.5 lane wide residential streets with parked cars on both sides
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gregorg @greg.org · 24/09/2026
this is Marie Laurencin Basket II for Gertrude Stein erasure collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2068...
 a brushy painting of a french poodle, mostly grey, with deep black soulless eyes like it's a demon, against, or rather blending into, a brushy darker grey pink and purple-grey background, in a gold frame of little note. a painting of gertrude stein's dog basket II signed by marie laurencin, at the beinecke
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gregorg @greg.org · 23/09/2026
norway 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]
an angled photo from a norwegian bus stop panel of a digitally manipulated ad with natalie portman looking over her tank topped right shoulder with a bob and a smoky look, a corny bottle of miss dior perfume with a big white bow resting on her shoulder. on the upper left corner of the ad, over her ear and hair, is a white public notice of a human figure with half it's head and shoulder in a dotted line, surrounded by the words, retusjert person reklame, or retouched person advertisement, as newly required by norwegian law. via tumblr user tpwrtmnky
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gregorg @greg.org · 22/09/2026
Plywood, 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...
robert gober's handmade sculpture of a sheet of plywood leans against a gallery wall.
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gregorg @greg.org · 20/09/2026
One 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...
a landscape oriented gerhard richter schmear of red green blue and white paint on the top half of a cream card, with tiny pencil lines tracing down from paint dots to the bottom edge of the paper, and an inscription wishing marian [goodman] a very happy new year from gerhard and family written in a hand that does not look like any of gerhard's handwriting i've seen but why should itthomas struth's 2002 portrait of the richter family has gerhard and sabine sitting in the chair and ottoman of the black leather eames lounger, respectively. young moritz, who's like 7 here? idk, sits on the edge of his father's chair and both of them place their right hands flat on the glass top of the mies coffee table. the younger daughter whose name i'm not going to look up [ok fine i looked it up it's ella marie and she's 5 here, maybe 6] is on the ottoman with her mother, in a black and grey wool party dress but like an austere party, and her mother holds her in place with a hand on her chest/waist, in a way that pulls the kid back a bit, tilting her head down, like she's being folded in half, but also giving the hardest look at struth's camera that would do the entire family proud. a richter painting of a skull and a richter painting of sabine's head hang on the walls behind them. if i were to buy a struth portrait of another family, it would absolutely be this one, it's terrifyingly good
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gregorg @greg.org · 20/09/2026
also/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...
a 1988 print between plexi of a gerhard richter painting of a photo of a full heavy bloom of orchids hanging off a pot on the left.the verso of a hiroshige woodblock print of a snowy evening scene in rural japan with houses and roofs in the little valley formed by trees on either side of the image. because it's the back, everything is faint because it's soaked through. a glitch in christie's sale of an otherwise unrelated marian goodman richter printa digital collage of gerhard richter's orchidee ii photopainting print of an orchid in bloom printed on top of hiroshige's kanbara winter scene, and it's a little wild how the left to right downward arc of the orchid echoes the valley and roofs in the japanese landscape, and how the leaf of the orchid echoes the tree in the print foreground. it would be wild if this is how we found out richter was using japanese woodblock print compositions as patterns for his paintings supposedly based on photographs, but here we are
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gregorg @greg.org · 19/09/2026
It’s shelf stable whipping cream season, motherf
An 8 oz juice box sized carton of Trader Joe’s shelf stable whipping cream is mostly light blue with a line drawing of a whisk with a swirl of whipped cream on the end in negative /white space. It says whipping cream in fat cursive logotype and there’s an ultra high pasteurized seal in the corner to taunt the raw milk freaks as they convulse in bacterial agony
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gregorg @greg.org · 18/09/2026
After 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...
a low-res photo of a pane of glass with four steel brackets holding it away from the white wall of gerhard richter's studio, with a small vertical rectangular work and strong sunlight from a window on a facing wall and floor as reflected in its surface, a 2002 work originally titled pane of glassa somewhat higer-res photo of a pane of glass with four steel brackets holding it away from the white wall of gerhard richter's studio, with no small vertical rectangular work and strong sunlight from a window on a facing wall and floor as reflected in its surface, a 2002 work originally titled pane of glass, the sunlight reflected on the glass is identical to another image that also contains the reflection of another work, which makes it hard to figure out why sotheby's would be using an altered 2002 photo in 2025 to sell this work. except that they must not have wanted the hassle of installing and photographing it themselves, after all it's only selling for 292,000 pounds
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gregorg @greg.org · 18/09/2026
from 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...
20 gerhard richter grids of 9 rectangles of color on white board are arranged in three rows in 2014 at the museum abteiberggerhard richter mirror work a square mirror on a white wall, photographed at an angle so it makes a trapezoid and reflects 20 framed paintings of color charts in three rows hanging on the adjacent wall, an installation shot from museum abteiberg in 2014
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gregorg @greg.org · 16/09/2026
it'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.
a screenshot of a slide presented at dia by art historian david j getsy has two portraits of underground theater performer wilhelmina ross by andy warhol. ross has a similar pose in each: on the left is a large royal blue background silkscreened painting of ross smiling, with golden skin and a tight head wrap, her hand and manicured nails next to her chin. on the right is a color polaroid of ross in a gold satin blouse, with light brown skin, elegant makeup, and a more detailed twisted headwrap.a 3 meter tall portrait of wilhelmina ross made in 1975 by andy warhol has a green background, and red gold blue painted highlights underneath the screenprinted imaeg of an elegantly dressed, beaming lady of color with a scarf and large earrings, a big smile, and a satiny blouse. somehow mumok in austria claims copyright which is almost as ridiculous as their transphobic text for this painting
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gregorg @greg.org · 16/09/2026
damned 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...
a richard prince inkjet on canvas painting of a screenshot of rasfotos 2014 instagram post of a white guy shirtless with chest hair and a porn stache looking more than a little like hipster john travolta is dramatically lit, while a white manicured hand and a pensive black figure with slicked down short hair and big glasses rests their face intensely on the man's chest. below this instagram post are two comments, one from karaakter: he was everything. and one from richardprince4, the fight for earth doesn't end until one of us is gone tnt" honestly no idea but it's iconic now
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gregorg @greg.org · 15/09/2026
trick question, same guy. there's a whole subreddit piecing together the unified uncle jesse-verse
a picture of john stamos with product holding back his hair and a salt and pepper beard at middle age, between the uncle jesse of full house and the uncle jesse of dukes of hazzard
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gregorg @greg.org · 15/09/2026
took 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
a screenprinted painting of a black and white photo of a black cardboard box lid with a square window cut out of the top center, and a library label wrapped around the bottom left edge, a work by rh quaytman selling at rago in sept 2026
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gregorg @greg.org · 14/09/2026
Roni 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...
an installation of a row of roni horn photos, with variant views above or below a particular image, of gifts the artist has received, as installed in 2017 at rat hole gallery tokyo, from left to right: "37 Album of owl postcards (two pics), 38 Mosaic color sample card, 39 naturally round rock (four pics), 40 'Untitled' (1987) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 41 Handmade miniature olive tree (three pics), 42 Fortune cookie fortune, 43 Die (solid sterling silver)" via contemporary art library
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gregorg @greg.org · 14/09/2026
I, 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]
a screenshot of glenn ligon's january 6, 2020 instagram post of his show, a year with a black moon, at rat hole gallery in tokyo has a photo of a single asymmetrical black moon jar on a white pedestal, I cropped out the likes and comments by nancy spector, scott rothkopf, and thelma golden, among othersan installation photo by hauser & wirth of glenn ligon's 2026 show in seoul has four black moon jars each on a white pedestal in the fore and middlegrounds, and a female figure in a black mid-calf dress and black sneakers with black straight hair in mid-step blurred by movement and the longer exposure. on the white gallery wall behind are two nearly monochrome paintings of static, one black and one white.
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gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026
or perhaps I could interest in this Jeff Koons Puppy Platter, for 99.96% less?
a photo of jeff koons's giant flower covered puppy sculpture in the courtyard of a tan and grey german castle, but printed onto a porcelain platter and turned into a limited edition by sfmoma, even in 1992 the writing was really on the wall with that place
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gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026
finally, a way to own Jeff Koons's Puppy without having to be Peter Brant greg.org/archive/2026...
a color photo of jeff koons's puppy sculpture covered in red and white flowering plants and installed for the first time in front of a tan and black castle in germany, with a couple of guys out for a smoke break behind it, and a couple of cars parked in the courtyard, is here printed on a 10 by 14 foot canvas, and being sold in new jersey in 2026
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gregorg @greg.org · 12/09/2026
took 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/...
a sargent painting of a large, dark, opulent palazzo interior in venice with an older white bougie boston couple on a sofa in the light in the foreground, the man in a dark suit reading a newspaper and turned toward the lady in a grey gown facing straight ahead and looking probably as old as she was in 1899, on the left, a little behind them but still in the light, a young white guy in summer suit sits against a table and his slight white wife in a going out outfit stands next to him. these are the curtises and mrs curtis rejected this present from their houseguest and cousin, so he gave it to the royal academy instead. in this photograph it is in a dark carved 18th century frame with a brass plaque that the royal academy also claims a copyright on, like the 127yo painting by the guy who's been dead 102 yearsa composite photo of the before and after condition of a john singer sargent painting of a small glass vase of daffodils and a clementine on a white tablecloth with an antique bench in the shadowy background. the left half is cracked with paint missing along the bottom edge and hazy white over all, the right it clearer, bright colors, and stable paint, after conservation at the harvard art museums
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gregorg @greg.org · 11/09/2026
if you need me, i'm just gonna be here for a bit, with the John Singer Sargent watercolors greg.org/archive/2026...
a watercolor painting of white and grey clouds against a blue sky by john singer sargent, at the met
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gregorg @greg.org · 11/09/2026
at 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...
two luc tuymans prints from the temple, 1996, have similar vertical composition, with the top half black. the bottom image on the left is almost entirely white, with traces of a photo down a long, clinical, industrial tunnel/hallway. the bottom half of the image on the right is similarly washed out, but there is a large upholstered altar in the center of a room or space which has darker cushions, so it stands out a bit against the two lines of pale, slightly ornate chairs and a settee behind it, a sealing room for performaing marriages in an lds temple
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gregorg @greg.org · 10/09/2026
in 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...
a black and white and grey painting of a polaroid of a tv screen, with the rounded edges of the tv tube along the bottom and right edges, of a picture of a padded altar, with a knee bench around the base, surrounded by slightly fussy fancy white chairs and a settee. this image of a sealing room of the salt lake city temple was broadcast on belgian tv where luc tuymans saw it, photographed the screen, and painted it. then this painting got stolen in nyc in 1996.
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gregorg @greg.org · 09/09/2026
Lucien 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...
a 2015 painting of a racoon with its front paws raised and its mouth open, and it's weareing a pale purple party dress. adapted from a 2014 viral photo by lucien smith, and soon stolen
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gregorg @greg.org · 08/09/2026
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. And now there's a podcast about it: greg.org/archive/2026...
two white ladies sitting on a large foam f------g couch by john chamberlain draped with white fabric, in a converted riding ring on shelter island, with four large chamberlain sculptures behind them.
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gregorg @greg.org · 07/09/2026
part 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...
an 8 by 4 ft piece of yellow fabric is stretched and framed as a work by andy warhol. six pairs of brillo box designs are screenprinted in two columns down the middle; the right side is slightly narrower because it was the screen from the smaller side of the wood boxes for which warhol actually created these screens. this painting did not sell for $5-7 million at sotheby's in 2015, though it may sell now for some reasona clunky yellow two-piece top and long skirt on a dressform has two bands of warhol brillo box screenprint panels stitched together around the hips and knees. the lower band is flared out slightly and forms an awkward box shape. sold at sotheby's in 2007 for $264,000
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gregorg @greg.org · 07/09/2026
now I want to see a 1968 Stockholm-Type Cardboard Brillo Box tho
a black and white 1968 photo by Nils-Göran Hökby of a giant wall/mountain/pyramid of cardboard brillo boxes stacked eleven high, with some stacked asew, and some slightly artful asymmetrical stacks in the foreground, at the moderna museet in stockholm, where curator pontus hulten decided to save on shipping by buying 500 actual boxes from brillo rather than bring over a significant number of warhol painted wood versions.
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gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026
I see your $1000 Beyoncé wooden record crate, and raise you one $2-3,000 Louis Vuitton cardboard jewelry box: greg.org/archive/2026...
a little louis vuitton trunk made out of cardboard stamped with the lv monogram canvas pattern sits closed in a white void, concealing the limited edition artist cardboard jewelry inside, via christies,
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gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026
blogging 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:
Screenshot of a mar 10, 2011 post, book inscription by che guevara, on bloggy.com:
From the New York Times obituary of Alberto Granado, who accompanied Che Guevara on his motorcycle journey around South America.

Before Che left Cuba in 1965 to pursue revolutions abroad, he left several books with inscriptions for close friends. They included one about the sugar industry for Mr. Granado.
The inscription was prescient.
“My dreams shall know no bounds, at least until bullets decide otherwise,” wrote Che, who was captured and killed in Bolivia in 1967. “I’ll be expecting you, sedentary gypsy, when the smell of gunpowder subsides. A hug for all of you. Che.”
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gregorg @greg.org · 05/09/2026
more arrow-related art-related objects, from The Long March, Lutz Bacher's 2018 show at NYU's 80WSE Gallery: greg.org/archive/2026...
image from growthandculture's 2021 instagram post showing a screenshot of a blankforms_ instagram post of a laser printed sign on white paper for lutz bacher pizza party sixth floor, with an arrow pointing right, taped to a wall at nyu, documenting this important piece of art historical ephemerascreenshot from growthandculture 2021 instagram post of a sign for lutz bacher einstein auditorium with an arrow pointing left,  on plain white printer paper, sitting on a persian carpet
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gregorg @greg.org · 04/09/2026
the 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...
a papier mache tray with brown flower edges and a painting of a shivering bare ass dog in black and white sitting on a bare tabletop at the highlighted center of a horrible looking field of black, being sold by bidhaus in 2026
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gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026
5/5 would eat again
two ellsworth kelly yellow curve iced cookies on white plates with an hibiscus lemonade in a highball with a mint leaf in between them site on a pale green cafe table amid the dappled leafy shadows of may afternoon sun at glenstone, where they built a room to fit an ellsworth kelly sculpture that had originally been designed to fit a specific room in germany or wherever
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gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026
It 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...
a red chalk drawing by michelangelo of three incomplete profiles of bases of a column. the negative space of the one on the left looked to me at least like a cartoonish profile, with a bulbous nose and slackjawed open mouth, like a shocked beetle bailey; the one on the right looked to michelangelo like a guy with a turban and a hooked nose and a beard screaming. from the casa buonarotti
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gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026
we 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
on a stainless steel kitchen counter sits a mason jar of granola reverse engineered from the recipe at swedish cardamom bun bakery fabrique, which includes hazelnuts, coconut, oats, almonds, flax seeds, oh my heck flax seeds
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gregorg @greg.org · 03/09/2026
the 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.
a row of water bottles we haven't dealt with yet sitting on a steel kitchen shelf, blocking access to the cookbooks. the one in the center is white and covered with stickers, and its base is glowing green with led lights, because it flashes every twenty minutes to remind the user to hydrate, and there is no way to turn it off without plugging it into the app or whatever that's on the kid's computer at school oy. the stanley cup was a gift, let's be clear, from one of our more instagram-addled loved ones. the seabourn flasks are uninsulated, making them good for cutting down on single use plastic during a brief excursion ashore, but literally nothing else. but you want us to throw them away? in esta economia?
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gregorg @greg.org · 02/09/2026
when 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
in the corner of a library vestibule in florence, two attenuated stone volutes, s-shaped curves, or corbels, the kind of ornamented architectural brackets that would normally signify holding something up, but here, are just on the wall, in the corner, smashed into each other in such a way that they merge, either by interleaving their striations, or just getting cropped. that michelangelo, what was he thinking?
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gregorg @greg.org · 02/09/2026
when 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...
the sheer glass facade or screen of the garden side of jean nouvel's fondation cartier looms against a blue sky and among the trees and stones of a conceptually rigorous landscape artwork and curved amphitheater by lothar baumgartena small dark brown clapboard shed with a little window and rusty corrugated iron roof that looks like it could have been transported from the island of noirmoutier, sits in a thick green, conceptually rigorous landscape, an artwork created by lothar baumgarten for the fondation cartier which, like this shed, which is actually a sculpture by agnes varda, was abandoned and/or destroyed by the fondation when it moved in 2025
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gregorg @greg.org · 01/09/2026
again, 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...
a narrow white console shaped vitrine at the reina sofia in madrid has two leather photo albums, the one on the right open to a page of snapshots of the sky, and an empty space with a label where a letter box filled with ephemera would go, if it were not specifically supposed to never be publicly exhibiteda detail of the label for untitled, a letter box by felix gonzalez torres which is not to be displayed publicly, in the space where it might otherwise have been displayed.six photos of a felix gonzalez torres letter box with different things displayed in it, demonstrating the range of material the artist sent to collector andrew ong, none of which is meant as an autonomous artwork or to ever be publicly exhibited, as published in elena filipovic's massive 2015 catalogue
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