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Marin R. Sullivan

@sculpturalthings.bsky.social
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Art Historian. Curator. Consultant. Writer. Sculpture Obsessive. Proud Chicagoan. sculpturalthings.com

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Lucas Museum really unlocks *men’s* desire to pose for a photo
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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh FFS.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bunch is also the former president and director of the Chicago History Museum.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sigh. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/a...
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Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This one hurts.
Stylized acrylic and silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol of the iconic Dolly Parton from 1985, currently held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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CBS News Chicago @cbschicago.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Illinois Institute of Technology has laid off around 160 faculty and staff members just before the start of the fall semester, according to published reports.
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Illinois Institute of Technology lays off about 160 faculty, staff members, reports say
The Illinois Institute of Technology has laid off around 160 faculty and staff members just before the start of the fall semester, according to published reports.
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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Unless you have a ticket to the Grand Prix in DC that will go near the National Gallery of Art , you can’t visit the National Gallery on August 22 and 23. Crazy
Due to its location on the Grand Prix route you cannot visit the National Gallery of Art Aug 22 & 23 unless you have a ticket to the Grand Prix
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you ever thought Trump's architectural shenanigans were abt populism & giving people what they want, then trying to gut Section 106 is all the evidence you need that this has never been abt democratizing anything. Gutting Sec 106 would destroy key means of public participation in the built envt.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Honestly, thrilled this abomination will no longer be in the lobby. Let the Lippold shine!
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nice to see a review of 'Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer"' in the @wsj.com
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‘Isamu Noguchi: “I Am Not a Designer”’ Review: An Innovator’s Enduring Forms
Atlanta’s High Museum of Art presents an exhibition of the artist’s category-defying work—including sculpture, furniture, appliances and more.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We can always count on the World Cup to give us truly, laughably unhinged sculpture…
A poorly rendered bronze bust of Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo A large outdoor monument to Argentinian football player Lionel Messi, with a suggestively placed three-dimensional rendering of the World Cup trophy
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
After a nearly ten hour delay, gate A6 at the Albany airport erupts in cheers like it’s game four at the Garden when the agent announces: “We are now heading to Chicago.”
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This. City. #ChicagoForever
Photograph of the lakefront and skyline of the best damn city in the world.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Officially out today! The catalogue for Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer," featuring new scholarship from seventeen contributors, including @langealexandra.bsky.social, and some pretty fantastic images, all weighing just under 6 lbs 😉
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Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer”
“I am not a designer”
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's giving fascist Live, Laugh, Love
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Celebrating Hungary with a little Moholy-Nagy 🇭🇺
László Moholy-Nagy, Dual Form with Chromium Rods, 1946. Plexiglas and chrome-plated brass, 36 1/2 x 47 7/8 x 22 inches (92.7 x 121.6 x 55.9 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Today, Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer” opens at the High Museum in Atlanta. Words cannot convey how much this project has meant to me and how much it has exploded everything I thought I knew about sculpture. Grateful to my co-curator Monica Obniski and everyone involved with the exhibition
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You guys.
Large banner advertising the exhibition ‘Isamu Noguchi: I am not a designer,’ opening April 11, on the exterior of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
RIP Calvin Tomkins, the great art writer of postwar America. His lucid writing speaks for artists, while welcoming all interested readers into the world of contemporary art. He was 100. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Calvin Tomkins, Who Chronicled Generations of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 100
Calvin Tomkins, a longtime New Yorker art writer and the biographer of Marcel Duchamp, has died at 100.
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Joanna Gardner-Huggett @jogardnerhugg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
depauliaonline.com
Why the arts still matter at DePaul
Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Please consider signing this open letter regarding the shameful closing of the DePaul Art Museum openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
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Letter Opposing the Closing of DPAM
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Truly a shameful decision by @depauluniversity.bsky.social - the closing of DPAM will be a tremendous loss to the university but also the broader arts community in Chicago depauliaonline.com/83058/news/d...
depauliaonline.com
DePaul Art Museum to close this June
As the university continues to struggle with financial challenges it has decided to close the museum at the end of the academic year.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I CANNOT with this headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...
nytimes.com
Bench Presses, Pull Ups … Kid Rock? The White House Had a Very Manly Week.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Well this was a lovely preview... "Isamu Noguchi: 'I am not a designer',"opening in under two months!
architectmagazine.com
This Exhibition Changes How We Talk About Design
Discover how Isamu Noguchi reshaped design, public space, and civic life in a landmark exhibition. Read why it matters now.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Anti-fascist #sculpturalthings
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)
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Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23
"This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
In these bleakest of times, I remain utterly amazed and deeply touched by the utter generosity and humanity of archivists, registrars, and collection managers.
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JaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
👇... 100%
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A must read for anyone connected to art history but also critical thinking...
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Why Art History Must Leave Home | The Brooklyn Rail
There may have been a worse time in US history to be in higher education, but I’m not sure when. Working in art history, a field that faces constant skepticism even among those who claim to love learn...
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Weird to feel excited about anything these days, but grateful to have the "distraction" of working on a project I deeply believe in. Thanks to Getty for supporting books about women artists and excited to (eventually) see 'Structure and Flow: The Life/Work of Claire Falkenstein' out in the world!
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sitting here wondering how familiar the Waiting for Godot set designer is with work of inimitable postwar sculptor Lee Bontecou
Set design with two actors seated on circular ring with dark void at centerAbstract image composed around dark circular void at center
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Please tell me again how AI and Crypto is the future and totally justifiable…
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Taste of Chicago, in the great American city called “a hellhole” by a gangster President.
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Still there. As of yesterday, at least. No telling what’s happened since, as I’ve been told that this majestic city is also somehow a hellhole.
Color photo of part of Chicago’s distinctive skyline, including the mf’n SEARS TOWER scraping the skies above. Taken from quite a distance, trees, power lines and other buildings complete the cityscape, all framed by clouds so low and fluffy they look like a toddler’s cotton ball art project.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Flag of the greatest city in the world, Chicago (that doesn’t want National Guard troops), depicting three white horizontal stripes, two blue stripes and four stars
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/08/2025
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 22/08/2025
We've reached the "Degenerate Art" stage of this Nazi administration. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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White House Targets Specific Artworks at Smithsonian, Including Painting of Refugees and Fauci Portrait
The White House listed artworks at Smithsonian museums that it denounced, including a painting of refugees, a Fauci portrait, and more.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What the what?! ‘One of the most notable tools is the AI grader agent, which Grammarly says can provide feedback based on uploaded course details and “publicly available” information about the instructor.’
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days last week at Detroit's Hart Plaza, designed by Isamu Noguchi--a powerful reminder of the immense power and pleasure of public art (and huge props to the city for getting the fountain back up and running!)
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sigh. Just endless sigh.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Perusing archival photos of 'Sculpture by Harry Bertoia' (1975) at the Art Institute of Chicago and sort of losing it over the ashtrays placed on the benches (also so grateful to institutions, in this case @artinstitutechi.bsky.social for making exhibition archival materials available online!)
Black and white photograph of an exhibition of sculptures by the artist Harry Bertoia in a lower level gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago taken in 1975. In the foreground are marble ashtrays sitting on the top of three stone benches with
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
👀
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A young Eero Saarinen (front)… or a long lost Finnish member of the Beatles?! (Also, duh, but this freaking family 🔥🤯🔥
Black and white photograph of the Saarinen Family taken in Finland, c. 1918-19. Left to right: Pipsan, Loja, Eliel and Juho. Eero standing in front.
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
conspiratorial #sculpturalthings
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In other 👀 art news today...
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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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