bill-arning
Gallerist and Founder of Bill Arning Exhibitions - Now pop ups and fairs only - I have been making exhibitions happen since 1984 and see no reason to stop now, Chicken keeper, Opera Obsessive and sober and active in 12 step programs since 2001
- I now have an official snow watching seat with a close view of the bird feeders to make these long upstate winters meditatively wondrous
- Alexandria Deters David Koresh (But I'm still waiting for the second coming...)", 2025, 2025 I'm Still Waiting for the Second Coming Embroidery, thread, silk, shirt, found fabric 14.5 x 15.2 in On View with BAE at NADA miami Dec 2-6
- Updating my art writer resume but with 45 years of writing ion art and artists even updating the CV exhausted me
- anyone noticed that younger gay figurative artists are all avoiding using “gay” or “queer” in their statements and press releases in what i assume is a strategy to avoid collapsing under the market dominance of Langberg and Fratino?
- Deborah Bright Sir Lady, 2025 Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 x 1.5 in
- Deborah Bright is best known as an art historian, queer theory writer, and teacher—she actually hired me for my first teaching job at RISD in the mid-90s. Her book The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire is a classic.
- I’m always shocked, though, by how many younger visitors haven’t seen Paschke’s work—I end up pulling out my phone to show them images so they can grasp the ontology of her appropriation strategy. On view through November 23 in “Seeking Complexity.”
- Proud to be a New Yorker even if I have not lived full time in the city since 1999 (Cambridge, Houston and the Hudson Valley)
- when I was growing up culturally music movements defined the passage of time, I started with a Donovan obsession and this list ends with Belle and Sebastian and their ilk. While there is still new music I care about like Orville Peck and St Vincent I can’t think of movements after the early 2000
- Reposted by bill-arningDrawing from 2023 (pen, colored pencil, and collage)
- Reposted by bill-arningI realize this isn't breaking news but it's insane that voting has begun and Chuck Schumer — leader of the Democratic party — is straight-up refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor, whose opponent is an alleged serial sexual abuser funded by Trump-allied billionaires
- Reposted by bill-arningArt Basel appoints communications head Karim Crippa as director of Paris fair
- Just what I needed
- Arches of the Bridge Stepping Out of Line by Paul Klee, 1937 botfrens.com/collections/212/con…
- Skip Art for No Kings come see me tomorrow Sunday
- Harrison Tenzer Octopus
- I was in my chicken coop, scraping poop off the roosting bars before heading to the train to go to the metropolitan opera tonight and hear the electrifying belle canto arias in La Sonnambula. Am i living in a Willa Cather story substituting the Hudson Valley for the plains of Nebraska ?
- come visit
- Reposted by bill-arningAnatomy Lesson No.82, 30x30, oil on linen, heading to Rice Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
- First time visiting the Norman Rockwell museum which seems explicitly to celebrate all the civic virtues lost today
- opening day of seeking complexity
- My knee doctor in measuring whether a new knee would improve my life asked about my physical hobbies. I neglected to say seeing 50 gallery shows gave me immense pleasure on a New York afternoon but was hard on my joints. i ran out of steam after 20 and missed some good ones.
- Opening Saturday October 4th, 3-5PM October 4th-December 21 , 2025 Seeking Complexity 17 Broad Street Kinderhook, NY 12106 David Becker - Deborah Bright - Jane Fine - Bo Joseph - Brian Kenny- AJ Liberto - Andy Ness - Harrison Tenzer
- Reposted by bill-arningAs adjunct to soon-to-open exhibition at the Whitney, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in Chelsea has a concurrent show, "Surreal America," with some great works including: this absolute 🔥 Pavel Tchelitchew portrait of Fidelma Cadmus, sister of Paul Cadmus & sometime partner of Lincoln Kirstein
- Reposted by bill-arningWe’re building a movement to fight for the working class — and to take our power back.
- Totally fascinating read
- I have read many conversations between artists, and this one with Bjarne Melgaard and Nicole Eisenman, from 2024, has to be one of the best, and most wild, rides. www.interviewmagazine.com/art/my-caree...
- Finally started posting on Substack substack.com/@billarning9...
- Sunday one of my gay culture heroes Don Shewey is coming to the Hudson Valley to read from Daddy Lover God, a book I cherish and leaned so much from, 5PM Sunday Sept 7th at 17 Broad Street Kinderhook NY
- Standing room only gallery for of Willa Cather’s A Wagner Matinee
- A lovely weekend to enjoy getting colors stuck in your eye Michael Lazarus Chair #24, 2024 Acrylic on panel 22.5 x 20 in
- Roddy Bottum read from his soon to be published memoir The Royal We
- Roddy Bottum is an amazing artist from his bands Faith No More, Crickets and Man on Man, his opera Sasquatch: The Opera and now his memoir The Royal We about his early years in San Francisco Bottum is truly a legend and funny too!
- Lisa Yuskavage works on paper survey at the wonderful Morgan Library is a joyful revelation
- Starting today through September 28 come see Jade Yumang’s Lick Into Shape, 2023
- from the artists description of the overall project “lace was introduced to the Philippines during Spanish occupation then developed for the American palette. This is put with the conception of a gay pornstar, Brandon Lee, who created an ambiguous Asian American persona, who happens to be Filipino.
- Last day to see the gloriously everyday observations in Eventless
- Reposted by bill-arningSouth Park
- The happy place
- Two more weekends to visit Eventless
- “To see someone try to act natural onstage seems so artificial,” he told The Times in 2021. “If you accept it as being something artificial, in the long run, it seems more natural, for me. So grateful my opera and theater going life included so many pieces by Robert Wilson.
- a simple rule: Live aggressively below your means.
- a lovely Sunday poetry reading with Mark Doty and Marie Howe
- A beautifully curated farewell to Stephen Petronio dance troupe
- A Very Special Reading Sunday July 27th at 5PM Hymns & Incantations: a poetry reading by Mark Doty and Marie Howe Bill Arning Exhibitions 17 Broad Street Kinderhook NY
