iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Tell me what random painting you shove in the back of your fridge, and I’ll tell you what you are.”

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just sent the editor the post peer review revisions for book 2 🎉 🎉 Now to work on book 3 🫩🫩

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Typo has me thinking of changing my email signoff from "all best" to "all beast"

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, "Patio Door with Green Leaf," 1956 access-ok.okeeffemuseum.org/object/28/

Abstracted picture of a green leaf, against stylized image of a structure

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The painting placed at center, in prized spot just above Helene Kröller-Müller's coffin, is "Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed," which Van Gogh painted in the summer of 1887 in Paris—one of earliest treatments of one of his most iconic subjects www.krollermuller.nl/en/collectio...

B&W photo of coffin, surrounded by flowers, in front of wall of Van Gogh paintings

Painting of sunflowers, laying on a table with patterned fabric

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18/09/2026

[Mrs. Buttle in “Brazil” voice] What have you done with his b-o-o-o-o-day….”

The cabinet of Jeremy Bentham’s “autoicon,” which was designed to display his taxidermied corpse. The cabinet—at University College London in an otherwise unremarkable hallway—reads “JEREMY BENTHAM” above the door, but inside, there is no Bentham corpse, only a series of posters of various UCL bigwigs.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder how much it cost Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to license this William Eggleston photo for a full-color, double-page spread, mentioning The Row only in microscopic type on the back corner, in today's Times

A photo of a flat field, a row of tiny trees in various species, big puffy clouds filling most of the frame

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On Tues evening we launched our first two Cross-Reference Coalition publications at the Ctr for Bklyn History 🥰 Anyone can download digital copies — libraries (we’ll prioritize Metro members) can request FREE print copies — via the pubs’ respective pages! crc.metro.org/projects/ (📸 by Mina Leazer)

Four people on a stage in a fancy room, with a set of zines projected on a screen behind them

The crowd at the end of the night, holding candles to recognize the equinox. Xinan Helen Ran, a member of the Search & Discovery cohort read a lovely acknowledgment

Our colorful Misfit book and Search & Discovery zine set

A cross-cohort planning team planned a range of activities — like bingo (card displayed here) — to help folks meet one another at the event, to promote social
“cross-referencing” :)

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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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and give it up for ornamental cabbage assholes

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mary Lee Bendolph, Get Ready (2006), Color soft ground and spit bite aquatint etching Just casually hanging in the library

A Gee’s Bend print hanging in the library as further evidence that this is absolutely not a real place bc truly how is this a real place

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Norman Foster's models for possible Reichstag cupolas, 1993. Photo by Richard Davies, from Julia Walker's "Berlin Contemporary"

26 different models for the Reichstag cupola arrayed on a dark background.

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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Literal hooting and hollering in the reading room as we come across a partially used box of condoms in a collection being processed

A box of natural lamb condoms among pamphlets

Wider shot of archival box with files, ledgers, pamphlets, envelopes, and condoms

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

View from the office for the next year

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's the full cover...

Accordion folded book with fabric cover with many small Japanese figures and characters.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 21/09/2026

Mary, Queen of Scots goes the way of all flesh

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Check out the lots in the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection sale (part 1) at Bonhams, and be dazzled: www.bonhams.com/auction/3258...

An Andy Warhol drawing from the series “25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy.” A pink striped tabby reclines on an ivory background; he has green eyes and he’s labeled “Sam” with Warhol’s signature at left.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gotta admit I've lived in NYC a very, very long time and don't think I ever knew about this mural Keith Haring did in 1987 for the Carmine Street Swimming Pool. I just stumbled upon it while walking past and was like👀 www.haring.com/!/art-work/242

View of a swimming pool area with an extremely long mural above of stylized fish and human figures swimming

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Truly loled my way through the PUAM this afternoon because what do you mean this university art museum is just there and free and somehow everyone on this campus isn’t visiting it every hour of every day?????

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA But also: genuinely extremely excited for my sister and her short husband to get this for me for Christmas

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A great Alicia Eggert work that continues to be in a bafflingly terrible location!

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Flashback to that time I gave my students extra credit for plastering Annie Dillard quotes all over campus in preparation for the eclipse.

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gregorg @greg.org · 16/09/2026

wrote a bit about this lecture at Dia by David J. Getsy on the feeback loop between Warhol's high visibility trans actresses in his films, and the underground theater street queens and trans women of color Warhol paid to model for his massive series, Ladies and Gentlemen: greg.org/archive/2026...

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David Getsy on Andy Warhol

YouTube video by Dia Art Foundation

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Microsoft Word, I assure you that when I convert footnotes to endnotes (or vice versa), I do not, in fact, want you to convert all my numbers to Roman numerals. Best wishes, Jacki

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Things I say to people “are you okay? you look like it’s 1996 and Annette Benning co-stars”

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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hey, the OFFICIAL DEADLINE is today! SEND IN YOUR ABSTRACT (but you know us, if you have a good one in mind and today isn't happening, just holler! we can probably cut you some slack) No travel money bc grad student, contingent, etc? Submit anyway and let's see if we can find you some! DO IT.

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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's International Dot Day! Painting with Detail (Black), acrylic on two panels by Roy Lichtenstein, 1987, Meyerhoff Collection:

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

an airport lounge Campari & soda is a health drink

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Isamu Noguchi at Lever House is a stunning gem of a show

Atomic Haystack, 1982/84 (2022)
Bronze plate

Akari Cloud: 21 Akari lamps,
Paper, bamboo

Magritte's Stone, 1982-83 (2022)
Hot-dipped galvanized steel

(With Octetra (five-element pyramid) 1965(2021) being polished in the background…)

Model for the Lever Brothers Garden, 1952
(Fabricated 2003 by Larry List)
Plexiglass

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

book on main book on main post it post it book on main

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why, yes, your email did indeed find me well, unusually well, in fact, because you see I have recently come into possession of a very fine cask of amontillado wine. If you would kindly reserve your place on the outlook calendar to come and view it in my unorthodox cellar arrangement…

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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 · 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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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ed Ruscha’s Industrial Strength Sleep (2007), Merino wool, cotton, and Trevira CS tapestry

From the museum label:

‘Featuring Ed Ruscha's characteristic graphic language against the backdrop of a dreamy, distorted image, Industrial Strength Sleep translates the artist's 1989 painting of the same name into the form of a textile.
Realized in collaboration with the FWM
Studio team during Ruscha's three-year residency, the work not only marks the artist's first weaving but also FWM's first foray into the display of tapestry…

Label continued:

Ruscha based his painting on Edward
Weston's dramatic photographic series of clouds from the 1930s, which captured their oneiric, ephemeral qualities. Photography was also central to the development of the tapestry itself, as Ruscha manipulated low resolution images of the painting to produce the textile design utilized by the computerized looms at Flanders Tapestries in Belgium. As a tapestry resulting from a series of media transformations, Industrial Strength Sleep raises questions of clarity and obfuscation, with the lines and texture of the weaving standing in contrast to the sleek, airbrushed finish of Ruscha's painting.’

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My new five-year plan is to become a log.

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The book I bought for my day of travel is too big to fit in my carry on. An inauspicious start!

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