Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 8hThe Carnegie International has been on view for five months. I was completely unaware of how good it is, and of how good the concurrent CMOA collection hang is. (In a related story, if you're a museum and your comms/marketing/etc. manages to miss me, it's pretty darn poor.) 020
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 13hBonkers. Michael Govan is having a disastrous decade. LACMA's next director and board will face a Herculean clean-up job. 030
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Colonial Williamsburg should de-install all of this now. Start from scratch. 000
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🧵 I recently visited the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and saw some of the most disrespectful, even🦇💩 insane installations you'll ever see. Favored institutional installation: lots of stuff piled high and deep in a corner. This is repeated at least 6-8 times. 5123
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026🧵 I recently visited the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and saw some of the most disrespectful, even🦇💩 insane installations you'll ever see. Favored institutional installation: lots of stuff piled high and deep in a corner. This is repeated at least 6-8 times. 5123
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🚨New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Celeste Rapone at the @mcachicago.bsky.social! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 012
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🚨New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Celeste Rapone at the @mcachicago.bsky.social! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 012
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Art museums too often believe they are entertainment venues (Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur, ffs) or sites of only celebration rather than sites of investigation and interrogation. An origin of this falseness: ex-MoMA director Glenn Lowry's justifications for his high MoMA admissions prices. 0166
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Art museums too often believe they are entertainment venues (Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur, ffs) or sites of only celebration rather than sites of investigation and interrogation. An origin of this falseness: ex-MoMA director Glenn Lowry's justifications for his high MoMA admissions prices. 0166
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I woke up to learn that a colleague who did this to me about a subject on which I've been working for 15 years (and on which she has never worked) was just promoted to head of her department. (She also refused to share a collegial cup of coffee with me; she made me meet with her standing.) 130
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I posted this over on IG too; it's the most-liked story I've posted in months. ... which makes it rather odd that the initial wave of mostly promotional critical discourse around the show is either excusing this, or is obviously trying not to think about it. 041
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're a Tyler Green completist <everyone scrolls to the next tweet>, here's an interview I did with the Rabkin Foundation's Mary Louise Schumacher. rabkinfoundation.substack.com/p/tyler-gree...rabkinfoundation.substack.comTyler Green, 2026 Rabkin Prize winnerTyler Green is a critic, author, historian, and longtime host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. 010
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I posted this over on IG too; it's the most-liked story I've posted in months. ... which makes it rather odd that the initial wave of mostly promotional critical discourse around the show is either excusing this, or is obviously trying not to think about it. 041
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why does the Met have to show the husband to give a woman her due? A husband-and-wife exhibition feels like a return to the Reagan-era backlash against feminism. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...metmuseum.org 1124
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why does the Met have to show the husband to give a woman her due? A husband-and-wife exhibition feels like a return to the Reagan-era backlash against feminism. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...metmuseum.org 1124
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An announcement of a sure-to-be-major book. The Lost Cause is also an art history. Perhaps surprisingly, it starts with a French sculpture about France's defeat in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. www.instagram.com/p/DDcC2-xRxo... 021
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Jitish Kallat at the Menil Drawing Institute! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 031
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Congrats to four-time Modern Art Notes Podcast guest Ann Temkin on sorta-not-really retirement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/a...nytimes.comAfter a Career Reshaping the Museum of Modern Art, Its Influential Curator Steps DownAnn Temkin, head of MoMA’s painting and sculpture department, will transition to a new role for the museum’s 100th anniversary. 061
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An announcement of a sure-to-be-major book. The Lost Cause is also an art history. Perhaps surprisingly, it starts with a French sculpture about France's defeat in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. www.instagram.com/p/DDcC2-xRxo... 021
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If the Minneapolis Institute of Art isn't trying to exhibit and acquire this, shut the place down. 0101
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every bit as dumb as you'd expect from this outlet: art fairs "grapple" with wire transfers, not "heritage." 030
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Jitish Kallat at the Menil Drawing Institute! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 031
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is so... absof*ckinglutely bizarre that MOCA's future as an independent institution should be in doubt (again). 041
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026George Catlin's 1832 prison portraits of Sauk leader Black Hawk and his leadership cohort are among the most influential paintings in US history... but they also offer stunning, daring Sauk cultural persistence and political resistance. www.instagram.com/p/Ddq9YftEVN... 061
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026George Catlin's 1832 prison portraits of Sauk leader Black Hawk and his leadership cohort are among the most influential paintings in US history... but they also offer stunning, daring Sauk cultural persistence and political resistance. www.instagram.com/p/Ddq9YftEVN... 061
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026😶 from @philipkennicott.bsky.social on "the finest dreck," and more. 171
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In a related story, Jacob Lawrence made over 50 paintings of Black people reading. There's almost nothing more fundamental across his oeuvre. www.instagram.com/p/DcL2lhzkeb... 23614
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026😶 from @philipkennicott.bsky.social on "the finest dreck," and more. 171
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Mark Thomas Gibson at the Tang; Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of architecture at Detroit! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 011
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In a related story, Jacob Lawrence made over 50 paintings of Black people reading. There's almost nothing more fundamental across his oeuvre. www.instagram.com/p/DcL2lhzkeb... 23614
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! 🚨 Mark Thomas Gibson at the Tang; Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of architecture at Detroit! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 011
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Along with their bellying up to art dealers and auction houses, the way in which art museums have most damaged themselves, torching important relationships in the process, is their outsourcing of communications to PR firms that do not care about institutions or their relationships. 040
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sylvia Plimack Mangold is a major artist. I both understand and am baffled by why art museums have failed to return to her work over the last quarter-century. It's both shameful and revealing. I'm grateful she came onto The Modern Art Notes Podcast in 2018. manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 020
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026RIP Annie Dillard. I first read Dillard in high school, and she motivated me to become a writer. 180
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When Trump demanded more on Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Smithsonian, he surely didn't realize what Emanuel Leutze's picture is about... and neither have we. A short-but-fresh look at the most radical work of White culture made in the US then-to-date. www.instagram.com/p/DdTyLpqkQL... 163
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When Trump demanded more on Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Smithsonian, he surely didn't realize what Emanuel Leutze's picture is about... and neither have we. A short-but-fresh look at the most radical work of White culture made in the US then-to-date. www.instagram.com/p/DdTyLpqkQL... 163
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The framing of this essay is a new low for a newspaper section that is mighty familiar with hitting new lows. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/a...nytimes.comDid Trump Win the Battle Over the Smithsonian?Lonnie G. Bunch III, who has led the institution since 2019, parried the White House until deciding it was time to go. 052
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The framing of this essay is a new low for a newspaper section that is mighty familiar with hitting new lows. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/a...nytimes.comDid Trump Win the Battle Over the Smithsonian?Lonnie G. Bunch III, who has led the institution since 2019, parried the White House until deciding it was time to go. 052
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026With Trump bloviating about Washington and his crossing of the Delaware (and semi-name-checking the famed 1851 Leutze), I'm freshly irked by this label. There was *nothing* cliched about the Leutze. It was the most radical work of White US culture produced to date. More tomorrow, perhaps... 120
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨New Modern Art Notes Podcast!🚨 Richard J. Powell on "Colorstruck!" from @princetonupress.bsky.social; Danielle Canter on Odilon Redon at the @gettymuseum.bsky.social! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 063
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🚨New Modern Art Notes Podcast!🚨 Richard J. Powell on "Colorstruck!" from @princetonupress.bsky.social; Danielle Canter on Odilon Redon at the @gettymuseum.bsky.social! manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT... 063
Reposted by Tyler GreenStanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Congratulations to SUP author Tyler Green! He has won the prestigious Rabkin Prize for excellence in arts writing. 🎉 @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social #2026rabkinwinners #artswritingrabkinfoundation.org2026 Rabkin Prize Winners — The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation 0133
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's remarkable that anything could sound less considered and more poorly executed than Govan's Folly (five miles to the NW), but somehow... 140
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm grateful to have won a 2026 Rabkin Prize, and to join admired friends and/or colleagues – Christopher Knight, Carolina Miranda, Sebastian Smee, Cara Ober, Catherine Wagley, Siddhartha Mitter, Jil Steinhauer, & now Sarah Lewis – who have been similarly awarded. www.instagram.com/p/DdGuuEcETJ... 7273
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm grateful to have won a 2026 Rabkin Prize, and to join admired friends and/or colleagues – Christopher Knight, Carolina Miranda, Sebastian Smee, Cara Ober, Catherine Wagley, Siddhartha Mitter, Jil Steinhauer, & now Sarah Lewis – who have been similarly awarded. www.instagram.com/p/DdGuuEcETJ... 7273
Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The great @cmonstah.bsky.social on the new Lucas Museum, especially its slobbering kiss to the worst of Orientalism: 🔥 The new Lucas Museum? 🚮 email.kcrw.com/the-lucas-mu...email.kcrw.com🎨 The Lucas Museum is a Missed Opportunity 151
Reposted by Tyler GreenTyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It's 2026, and an author in a prominent historical journal is referring to a leader of a death squad that participated in the California Genocide as an "explorer." How did this happen? How did each reviewer and editor give this a pass?! (And how does this journal not have a 'letters' section?) 133