You could say Greek sculpture took off in the Archaic period bc the explosive growth of sanctuaries created never-before-known demand for statues. OR you could say the Muses started paying attention to us once we started paying proper attention to them

Barkan, unlike Lorentzen, says incredibly obvious things with absolutely no charm or verve. Why his little piece is being fawned over is beyond me

Not one Renaissance course taught in the Berkeley art history dept this semester :( classes.berkeley.edu/search/class?f…

Biggest conspiracy theory this century is “Hilma af Klint invented abstract art”

This is normal and sharing it is normal, find some policies of his you disagree with you utter freaks

Twitter spats have nothing on the venom Peter Schjeldahl launches at Jed Perl & Perl’s curtsying sidestep in the New Criterion’s March 1989 letters page. Over Anselm Kiefer: newcriterion.com/article/a-diss…

This, from the FB group Terrible Art In Charity Shops, is from a charity shop in Wexford. I think it is fantastic.

The figure of the art patron should be more revered than the figure of the artist, because patronage, that most noble activity, is a choice. What a choice for one’s life!

Otherwise great minds & spirits have always been drawn into pits of ignorance by passing fashions. Bryon gave a whole stanza of Childe Harold over to the insipid, no-good Medici Venus

Here’s what a toddler teaches you: A cup of water is nothing. A cup of water with a spoon is magnificent

If libs want to teach a class on your magazine cover, it’s not art

Fuck this. archive .org is better than the rest of the internet put together

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They had other-care and were peaceful, you have self-care and are tormented

This is all very good. Encyclopedic high-quality-repro books of Western art will once again be in every home not inhabited by losers, and I will edit them