Storytime. - by BDM - Notebook

I have some nits to pick with that NYT Pablomatic review I guess.

not really related just a painting i liked seeing in person when i finally got to see it The big piece circulating online last weekend in cranky intellectual spaces was Jason Farago’s big takedown of Hannah Gadsby’s “It’s Pablo-matic” exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Unfortunately for me—an inhabitant of said spaces—this piece kind of annoyed me. Not because I have any affection for the idea of this exhibit (I recommend this equally harsh piece) but because sometimes a person pans a thing you’d probably hate in a way you don’t agree with and then that somehow irks you more than if they were…

related reading

• It's Pablo-matic19933.biz
• The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissickharpers.org
• crashing out about the latest Hasan Piker NYT articlehardlyworking1.substack.com
• The Anatomy of an Exhibitionsubstack.com
• Essay: The digital death of collectingkylechayka.substack.com
• “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
• The Guggenheim’s Scapegoattheatlantic.com
• In Defense of the Traditional Review | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
• The Disorienting Beauty of ‘Africa & Byzantium’ - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
• Paglia’s Exaggerationsblakeesmith.substack.com
• The NYT Book Review Is Everything Book Criticism Shouldn't Becurrentaffairs.org
• Cy Twombly, the Content Painter | The New Yorkernewyorker.com