CiCi

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12 October 2026 10:09

Steve Reich in the afternoon 😉

Michael Lobel

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12 October 2026 07:49

Relatedly, a sweeping Duchamp retrospective has just opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, after run in NYC at MoMA www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Michael Lobel

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12 October 2026 07:48

Note how in Jacob Lawrence's painting, none of the residents of the neighborhood carry umbrellas, unlike the well-heeled subjects of Gustave Caillebotte's Impressionist scene. Lawrence's figures do what they can, fashioning improvised rain hoods or just hurrying to get out of inclement weather

Michael Lobel

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28 September 2026 10:29

When at the end of 1939 Walter Benjamin was advised to get out of Paris, he instead renewed his library card. He died #OnThisDay in 1940, fleeing from the Nazis. He was one of the great cultural critics of the 20th century

Michael Lobel

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28 September 2026 10:28

I'm excited to share that today is the official publication date for my new book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press, which more firmly grounds Van Gogh within the industrial era in which he lived & worked (thread) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...