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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Edward Kienholz - The Illegal Operation. Her body, her choice - period.

Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Joe Ray - US. This painting was made in 1993, after Rodney King’s beating and it made me think about Ross Gay’s ‘A Small Needful Fact’, which is about Eric Garner.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Rene Magritte - The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe). So… what am I looking at here??? 🤔

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Lyonel Feininger - Village in Thuringia.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Camille Pissarro - The Path to Les Pouileux, Pontoise and Peasant House at Eragny.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Morgan Russell - Sketch for Synchromy in Blue-Violet.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Andre Masson - The Vertigo of the Hero. Did I mention I like colour? I don’t always need a Pollock like bukkake - a good mix is enough!

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Or these cool urban sketches by George Grosz!

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The main collection also has some works worth going for alone. Take this prophetic painting from 1913… Ludwig Meidner - Apocalyptic Landscape.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yasmine Nasser Diaz - Hanna bint (daughter of) Ghamar.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Sherin Guirguis - Storming Parliament I.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Lalla Essaydi - Reclining Odalisque.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Gulay Semercioglu - The Flower Inside Me. Is that a little Georgia O’Keeffe?

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Laila Shawa - Disposable Bodies 4 (Shahrazad). Shades of Damien Hirst to me…

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hayv Kahraman - Search and Indian Poker.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Women Defining Women was also great, and showcased Islamic women’s art. Shirin Aliabadi- Miss Hybrid No. 3.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Because these still life paintings are not just studies, but displays of wealth, stolen from colonized worlds. And it made for an interesting way to learn how to view these works. Willem Kalf - Still Life with a Porcelain Vase, Silver-Gilt Ewer, and Glasses. Willem Claesz - Tobacco Still Life.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And the spoils of empire just kept rolling in. Man’s Tunic, Peru. Abraham van Beyeren - Banquet Still Life. Which lends a new meaning of reclamation in modern reinterpretations of this art period. Sithabile Mlotshwa - A Phoenix of the Dutch Republic.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And reinforced views of superiority via religious art. Antonia Tempesta - God Creating the Birds and the Fish. Jan Pietersz, Saenredam - Adam Naming the Animals.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And their understanding of the world grew with contact with new countries, at the expense of the indigenous populations of those places. Great Tulip Book: Admirael der Admiraels de Gouda, and Gesner’s Tulip, Ichneumon Fly, Kidney Bean, and Scarlet Runner Bean.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Items like these boxes flooded in from the Ryukyu Islands and Turkey, respectively.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hendrick Doncker - A New Map of the Whole World by Frederick de Wit. And then they set their eyes on the outside world, to apply the same tactics the Spanish had used to enrich themselves and play ‘catch up’ with the rest of Europe.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Jan van de Velde II - Water. These were the beginning of the exhibit, setting up how the Dutch tried to assert a unified identity after gaining their independence from Spain.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Armorial Tapestry, France or Flanders.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Dutch World started with some Rembrandt - Portrait of Marten Looten, and The Raising of Lazarus.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Analia Saban - Draped Marble (Carrara, St. Laurant, Brown Onyx).

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Jesse Monongya - Monument Valley bolo tie.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Unidentified - Mosaic Tabletop.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Unidentified - The Palazzo Vecchio.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Vincenzo Verdejo - Portrait of Pope Pius VII. These pieces were tiny, can only imagine what working on this was like.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

First up, stonework! It’s related to mosaic work and honestly, this blew my mind! Grand Ducal Workshops - Portrait of Pope Clement VIII. Look at that detail work!

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I got caught up seeing Space Invaders in Paris that I missed going to an actual museum. But, Sacre Coeur had some sweet mosaics.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And of course, the final mural, with its pixel art head was a cool way to return back to the real world.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I recently read something that equated Little Richard with the colour purple and being a freak. Changes how I view that last painting…

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There’s no buying a stairway to heaven, but maybe you can visit for a bit…

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And of course the payoff is Paradise. I spent the most time here, and circled back a couple times. His use of a red pen to reinforce the perspective is great.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And in between sections there were little waiting rooms offering a guide for what to expect next. It was a really cool layout!

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The layout was really cool, involving these small circular sections that the paintings hung in. Purgatory was where the ordering started to sort itself out.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here… Welcome to a quick trip through Hell, next stop Purgatory!

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Back July 2023, in Toronto, I wandered into the Divina Dali show, which was cool! A collection of Salvador Dali’s watercolours of scenes from Dante’s The Divine Comedy.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I also got to see this cool pop-up show called Punk and Beyond: Legends of the Lower East Side. Pretty cool to get to see instruments played by Lou Reed, Vernon Reid, Johnny Thunders, Norah Jones, among others in person! The DJ was cool to chat with too.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Overall, the biggest draw might be The Unicorn Tapestries, which potentially originated in Brussels? Just a short medieval comic told via giant stitched panels about the hunt of a unicorn.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Reliquaries always blow my mind, because they housed body parts of saints. When I die, I want to be buried at sea, personally. Don’t put me on a shelf.

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This praetexta caught my eye, because the needlework Mary has a pixelated quality. The Latin reads “Hail, Queen of Heaven, Mother of the King of Angels.”

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Nackariah @nackariah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As a building feat, this is pretty amazing to begin with, but then you add in all the little details stored inside and we have lift off! Next stop Europe, via Fort Tryon.