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Blackbird Rook

@blackbirdrook.bsky.social

Hope is what remains after optimism has had the decency to shut up. On Trump, magical thinking and why we keep making art when we know perfectly well that things can go wrong.

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#ContemporaryArt #ArtWriting

November 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM

Pup & Tiger

@pupandtiger.co.uk

Getting excited about our upcoming publication Queer States: Art/Writing/New Queerions. If you remember Thomas Arnold’s paintings from Soft Territories, he’s back instead with yearning/dreamy writing in He Would Like To Be Held. -Jared

#ContemporaryArt #QueerArt #QueerLit #Zines #ArtWriting #ArtSky

October 26, 2026 at 11:24 AM

Pup & Tiger

@pupandtiger.co.uk

A bit of a catchup with this, but more 'something we've been looking at':

And thanks again Wayne!
#QueerArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtSky #ArtWriting #QueerLit

Wayne Bund @bundlandia.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thanks to all who came out to the Artist Biennial at @oregoncontemporary.bsky.social. It was a joy to about art and abstraction and camouflage and Rooster Rock and Summer Lake all night long. It’s open until July 5th!

October 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Pup & Tiger

@pupandtiger.co.uk

Been busy busy behind the scenes in a very good way. And thanks to everyone who has been reaching out! Something new coming soon? (Teaser, but I’m not very good with teasers haha)

#Photography #Zines #ContemporaryArt #QueerArt #QueerLit #ArtWriting #ArtSky

October 21, 2026 at 9:45 AM

Lena Ghio

@lenaghio.bsky.social

thelenaghioparadox.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-... Explore Ciel variable’s Intimacies, an extraordinary meditation on bodies, memory, loss, & the ethics of seeing. #Photography #Intimacy #ContemporaryArt #CielVariable #VisualCulture #ArtCriticism #HumanConnection #Philosophy #DigitalCulture #ArtWriting

October 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM

Pup & Tiger

@pupandtiger.co.uk

Going back through Soft Territories: Crossings and slowly rebuilding the archive on @are.na Working with multiple artists and works, images, fragments from the exhibition and more to come.

Still finding things there I’d forgotten about.

www.are.na/jared-pappas...

#QueerArt #ArtArchive #ArtWriting

Abstract painting predominantly blue, white, tan; Thomas Arnold, Gravitating

Installation view with blue image with constellation of white fabric objects tethered by blue string with audio headphones; Shruti Gaonkar, Indigo Darpan

Loose drawing of space hopper; River Smith, Not Safe for Childhood series

Game rendering skins of male nude and skeletal with digital overlays; Jonathan Armour, Angel Skins (video still)

October 12, 2026 at 9:49 AM

Fiona Kelly McGregor

@fionakellymcgregor.bsky.social

New essay up at the new Meanjin, on artist Heather B. Swann’s exhibition at UNSW Galleries.

#contemporaryart #australianart #artwriting #essays #artcriticism

Symbolic gestures

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October 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM

Pup & Tiger

@pupandtiger.co.uk

From the Transmissions archive: Douglas A. Martin, Room of the Troubled One

“I make my stacks upon tables and the floor, plans, towers and fans of others…”

#QueerLit #QueerArt #ArtWriting #ContemporaryArt @douglasarthur.bsky.social

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October 6, 2026 at 7:58 AM

Laura Ludtke

@ladyelectric.bsky.social

📱 “The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect”

Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social

What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?

#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #ArtWriting #text_art #hauntology #DeadMedia #MediaArchaeology #NewMediaArt #PracticeResearch

September 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM

Blackbird Rook

@blackbirdrook.bsky.social

Artists are happy to discuss failure, but being seen trying is more embarrassing. It means following up and admitting that you would quite like something to happen.
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#ContemporaryArt #Artists #ArtWorld #ArtistCareer #ArtWriting #BlackbirdRook

August 23, 2026 at 11:07 AM

Jane O'Sullivan

@sightlined.bsky.social

Sharing a link to an old piece about this particular favourite
#artwriting #art artguide.com.au/making-marks...

Making marks, mapping Country — Art Guide Australia

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August 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM

Jane O'Sullivan

@sightlined.bsky.social

I wrote about the surprising Janet Dawson retrospective for Apollo - if you're in Sydney it's worth it to see Wall II alone
#artwriting #art #janetdawson #agnsw

Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · Aug 3

‘The retrospective frames Dawson as a rule-breaker and iconoclast, which is true in more ways than one’ – Jane O’Sullivan (@sightlined.bsky.social) on a survey of paintings by Janet Dawson in Sydney buff.ly/fgsTvIR

How Janet Dawson set her sight on new horizons

After an avant-garde start, the Australian painter upped sticks to rural New South Wales and began painting life on the farm, writes Jane O’Sullivan

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August 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM

Jules

@rarejoolz.bsky.social

I guess at some point we will all be here? Emptying my brain on #art #artwriting #dance #life. Mexico in 2 days for #cdmxartweek, showing at self-run space Tlaxcala3 in Roma Sur, with members of SOIL gallery SEA. Posting while masked w the gf’s sick 6yo on this impromptu spa/snow day…🤞🔜☀️

February 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM

Mike Pinnington ✍️

@doublenegativem.bsky.social

Been writing about the new Tate Liverpool collection display, The Plant That Stowed Away, today. A show full of signs and symbols - of colonialism, post-industrial decline and more - the city and its history is the departure point. Words on The Double Negative soon >>> ✍️ #artwriting #criticism

February 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Mike Pinnington ✍️

@doublenegativem.bsky.social

Join me in giving a warm Liverpool welcome to #artwriting rock star Maria Fusco in Feb. I'm told it's selling fast in case you need extra motivation: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

In Conversation: Maria Fusco | Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

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January 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Annalise👩🏻‍💼📝💻🖼

@artistxlife.bsky.social

Paint is the most relaxing thing. Your paintbrush dipped in the color that glides across the paper...is incomparable 🙂‍↕️

#art #artist #writing #artwriting #mind #artmind #painting #color #paintbrush

September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM

Stephen Baird

@bigbeardybooks.bsky.social

Just been approved for “How to Be Avant-Garde” by Morgah Falconer and “Witchcraft: A Graphic History” by Lindsay Squire

#netgalley #graphicnovel #witchcraft #arthistory #artwriting

Book cover, a central tree with a crescent moon above amd four women dancing in front of it, owl in the branches, bottom left is roots and leaves, bottom right has a fox wandering over roots and leaves

Book cover, intersecting circles in a modernist design most reminiscent of Constructivism, the two circles hold the title and author's name

October 4, 2024 at 9:46 PM

Nicole Maynard she/her

@nicolemaynard.bsky.social

Well-deserved! #art #artwriting #journalism

Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Dec 5

Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic’s editor-in-chief and co-founder, and feminist critic Lucy Lippard received this year’s Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rabkin Foundation.

Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian Wins Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award

The Rabkin Foundation recognized Vartanian and feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard for shaping “how we think about art and its social and political contexts.”

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December 6, 2024 at 1:29 AM

Alexandrya Eaton

@alexandryaeaton.bsky.social

Grief Cloak on the cover of the current issue of Ecocene Journal. 🩷 #artjournal #artwriting #expandedpainting #performanceart Photo documentation by @anniefrancenoel.bsky.social 🩷

February 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM

William Turner Gallery

@turnergallery.bsky.social

Check out Artsy Editorial's article on Greg Miller before the opening of his solo show "True Romance" at William Turner Gallery on Saturday June 21st! #artwriting #artist #artgallery
www.artsy.net/article/arts...

See the Peeling Past in Greg Miller’s Nostalgic Mixed-Media Work

Born in California in 1951, Greg Miller came of age in an era that still fascinates him. The large-scale mixed-media works on view in “The Backside,” ...

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June 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Matthew Creasy

@matthewcreasy.bsky.social

My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it...

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

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May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM

Studio Andrew Seto

@studioaseto.bsky.social

text | 23.05.25

consistently good art essays, though find their writing most interesting when they veer into talking about themself

#olivialaing #funnyweather #artwriting #artpractice #research #reading