Aldo Aragon
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final National Portrait Gallery visit during D.O. fellowship, July 2025
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final SAAM visit during D.O. fellowship, July 2025
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final NGA visit during D.O. fellowship, July 2025
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final Phillips Collection visit during D.O. fellowship, July 2025
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final Glenstone visit during D.O. fellowship, July 2025
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" Untitled' (America)" @ Whitney Museum, July 2025
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Dumbarton Oaks talk with Santiago Montoya, April 2025
photos coming soon
Textile Museum (D.C.), February 2025
In The Lab 1
In The Lab 2
Dancers by Irene Emery
My Favorite Piece
also see: Duchamp and Koons on the lobster
Behind The Scenes
Our First President
"Julian Opie" @ Lisson Gallery (NYC), February 2025
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"Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Knight" @ Whitney Museum, February 2025
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Whitney Museum, February 2025
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"Vital Signs: Artists and the Body" @ MOMA, February 2025
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"Pirouette: Turning Points in Design" @ MOMA, February 2025
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MOMA, February 2025
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"Georgia O'Keefe and Henry Moore" @ MFA (Boston), January 2025
O'Keeffe, Fishhook from Hawai'i
O'Keeffe, Grey Cross With Blue
O'Keeffe, Sacsayhuaman
Arp
O'Keeffe
Gallery View
O'Keeffe
"Mark Armijo McKnight" @ Whitney Museum, Christmas Week 2024
McKnight intro
McKnight video
McKnight landscape
Whitney Museum, Christmas Week 2024
come back to this five years from now
more Oldenberg + a play on words
mahoning (a town near Wilkes-Barre), by Franz Kline
cityscapes
anxiety / NYC
one of Hartley's (cue my raised eyebrow)
new favorite O'Keeffe just dropped
a Lichtenstein
a Haring
Cooper-Hewitt (NYC), Thanksgiving Week 2024
photos coming soon
National Museum of the American Indian (NYC/George Gustav Heye Center), Thanksgiving Week 2024
National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico), Thanksgiving Week 2024
contemporary cross back
Oaxacan green contemporary
contemporary cross back front
"Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay" @ National Museum of the American Indian (D.C.), November 2024
i am reminded of Barnett Newman's zips
The Edge (2013)
The Edge (2013)
The Edge (2013)
Monumental Edge 2 (2020)
Monumental Edge 2 (2020)
Monumental Edge 2 (2020)
National Gallery of Art, November 2024
A Finger on the Drum, Kay Sage (1940)
Shirt Front and Fork, Jean Arp (1922)
National Museum of African American History/Culture, September 2024
Phillips Collection, September 2024
Aquinnah/Gay Head, Albert Pinkham Ryder
Baseball at Night, Marjorie Phillips
Lower Manhattan, Stefan Hirsch
MFA (Boston), March 2024
Soundsuit by Nick Cave
Chaco
"What is missing here and why?"
"Mark Rothko" @ Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), March 2024
photos coming soon
Quai Branly (Paris), March 2024
Quai Branly 1
Quai Branly 2
Quai Branly 3
Tate Modern (London), March 2024
British Museum, March 2024
British Museum 1
British Museum 2
British Museum 3
British Museum 4
British Museum 5
"The Remnants of an Army" @Tate Britain, March 2024
MOMA, Christmas Week 2023
Guggenheim, Christmas Week 2023
"Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School" @ New York Historical Society, Christmas Week 2023
photos coming soon
New York Historical Society, Christmas Week 2023
Dumbarton Oaks, December 2023
photos coming soon
"Many Wests" @ SAAM, December 2023
No photos taken
"Rothko: Paintings on Paper" @ National Gallery of Art, December 2023
National Gallery of Art, December 2023
George Bellows, The Lone Tenement
Edgar Heap of Birds
Samuel Morse, House of Representatives
Kay Walkingstick, Ute's Homelands
Charles Sheeler, Classical Landscape
George Bellows, New York
"Fashioned by Sargeant" @ MFA (Boston), October 2023
Harvard Art Museums talk with Bosco Sodi, October 2023
photos coming soon
Phillips Collection talk with Christopher Rothko, Kate Rothko, and Elsa Smithgall, June 2023
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Phillips Collection, May 2023
Six O'Clock, Winter by John Sloan
The Ham by Paul Gauguin
Two Eggs by John Graham
"Robert Longo Drawings: Engines of State" @ National Gallery of Art (D.C.), May 2023
no photos taken during this exhibition
"Phillip Guston Now" @ National Gallery of Art (D.C.), May 2023
no photos taken during this exhibition
National Gallery of Art (D.C.), May 2023
Edward Hopper
Georgia O'Keeffe
"1898: Imperial Visions and Revisions" @ National Portrait Gallery, May 2023
Smithsonian American Art Museum, May 2023
Cape Cod Morning by Edward Hopper
Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point by William Glackens (WPA/Ashcan)
Subway by Lily Furedi
Orilla Verde at the Rio Grande by Kay WalkingStick
In the Barber Shop by Ilya Bolotowsky
Harvard Art Museums course with Mary Schneider Enriquez and Makeda Best, January to May 2023
photos coming soon
"Pour, Tear, Carve" @ Phillips Collection, March 2023
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"The Jewish Deli" @ New York Historical Society, March 2023
Photos coming soon
"The Sassoons" @ Jewish Museum (NYC), March 2023
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"After 'The Wild:' Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection" @ Jewish Museum (NYC), March 2023
After "The Wild"
Corona, Mark Gibian
Corona, Mark Gibian
"The Traveler" @ Orlando International Airport, March 2023
life imitates art ~ this isn't really a museum but too good not to share
MFA (Boston) visit accompanied by Samuel Taylor, March 2023
Venus by sculpted by William Wetmore Story
My first departmental lecture will be about the Polynesian chicken
Wilderness-Marcy, Dvorak New World Symphony, Largo (1922) by Harold Weston
A closer read of Harold Weston's piece
Bone Player (1856) by William Sidney Mount
New York Historical Society, February 2023
Haring
Haring accompanying text
Rothko
Rothko accompanying text
Yale University Art Gallery, February 2023
Edward Hopper, Rooms of the Sea
(depiciting truro, MA)
Charles Sheeler, California Industrial
Julie Buffalohead, Fox Tussle (2015)
Lawrie
Lawrie accompanying text
Bierstadt
Bierstadt accompanying text
Morgan Library (NYC), February 2023
Intro Text
Iceland
Madagascar
Hawaiian Archipelago
Australia
Bishop Museum (Honolulu), January 2023
(Above) Natives Viewing The Hilo Flow, May 18, 1881
Oil on Canvas by Charles Furneaux (1835-1913)
Furneux arrived in Hawai'i from Massachusetts in July 1880. Soon afterwards, he witnessed and painted multiple views of the nine-month eruption of Mauna Loa that extended into the following year. The volcano's lava eventually began to move towards the town of Hilo, where residents uneasily kept track of the dangerous progress in their direction, as this painting depicts. Mercifully, the flow stopped not far from town on August 10, 1881. To some, this was due to the on-site intervention of Princess Ruth Ke'elikolani who chanted prayers and gave offerings to Pele.
In 1881, Furneaux exhibited forty-two of his volcano paintings in Honolulu; today, over forty of these are in the Bishop Museum collection, bequeated by the Museum's first director, Dr. William T. Brigham.
"Hopper's New York" @ Whitney Museum, Thanksgiving Week 2022
Whitney Museum, Thanksgiving Week 2022
"Water Memories" @ The Met, Thanksgiving Week 2022
The Met, Thanksgiving Week 2022
MOMA, Thanksgiving Week 2022
The Moon and the Earth by Paul Gauguin
The Moon and the Earth by Paul Gauguin
"Diego Rivera's America" @ San Francisco MOMA, September 2022
San Francisco MOMA, September 2022
Note: "Niña en Azul y Blanco" (1939) by Diego Rivera on loan to SFMoMA during the 2022 retrospective. A lithograph of this painting hung above my family dining room growing up. The painting failed to find a $4M+ buyer at a Sotheby's auction in 2012 but has since been acquired by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening in 2025.
Harvard Art Museums, September 2022
High School, Indiana, 2016-2020
-fond memories of Julian Opie's "Ann Dancing" installation in downtown Indianapolis
-a visit to the ICA (Boston), where I saw a Julian Opie piece just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic
K-8, New York City, Pre-2016
-vague recollection of a school field trip to the Noguchi museum (thanks Mamie Fay School/P.S. 122Q)
-countless trips to The Panorama Of the City of New York, at the Queens Museum (seen below)
