Robin Cembalest
Journalist, educator, Instagrammer, former ARTnews editor, SVA faculty. I teach writing and career skills to art professionals. Find my upcoming free workshops at RobinCembalest.com!
- Sublime opening for Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” @whitney.org
- Rest in power Nona Faustine, fearless and beloved photographer who made history visible, using her body as content and tool
- Yale Center for British Art reopens with newly conserved Louis Kahn building, reinstalled collections galleries, & J.M.W. Turner & Tracey Emin shows, Emin neon in lobby
- “Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form” unites art by the Afro-Brazilian sculptor & spiritual leader (1917-2013), who reimagined Candomblé ritual objects as artworks in their own right, with works by artists with shared interests in African visual languages @elmuseo.bsky.social
- This free class will be awesome!
- Sign up for the Creative Capital Artist Lab, Promoting Projects and Events, with @rcembalest.bsky.social on Zoom on March 26, 2025 from 1-2PM. Register for free below! creative-capital.org/events/artis...
- "(Re) Generations": Howardena Pindell, Byron Kim & Rina Banerjee select works from @newyork.asiasociety.org collections to situate their new & existing works.
- Plastic fantastic: Borinquen Gallo with her art made from caution tape, bags, & more at New York’s wonderful Materials for the Arts @mftanyc.bsky.social
- Demanding space and dethroning the male “genius”: @debkass with her reunited “The Art History Paintings,” created 1989-92, at Salon 94
- Yasmin Ramirez & @arlenedavila.bsky.social, editors of “Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art”, at their book launch with Lee Quinones, an artist featured in the volume, with work by Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz on screen @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social. Groundbreaking survey published by @dukepress.bsky.social
- Keeping it real: John Ahearn & Rigoberto Torres celebrate their 4-decade collab creating life-cast portraits at their opening at James Fuentes. Kevin, subject of “Kevin in Thought,” strikes a pose with his likeness from 1988.
- Using Augmented Reality to visualize virtual versions of “The Gates,” Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s iconic Central Park installation, 20 years later, via @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social Models, drawings, photos of the original 23-mile installation featuring 7,503 Gates are at The Shed
- Works by women artists that look like they could have been made yesterday—but weren’t 🏰 Brenda Miller 1970s sisal wall sculpture at Zürcher 🪺 Lucia Nogueira 1988 at Luhring Augustine 🪢 Juanita Guccione 1940s Surrealism at Lincoln Glenn #️⃣ Susan Fortgang 1981 impastoed gridded painting at Firestone
- Free workshop just posted! 🖍️ Promotional Writing for Professional Artists ✏️ Hosted by @creativecapital.bsky.social 🎭 Learn to write with less stress and more success 📷 For creators of any genre 🎬 creative-capital.org/events/artis... 🎵
- Exploring the non-auditory dimensions of sound: Christine Sun Kim uses musical notation, infographics & language to share her Deaf lived experience in her survey show @whitney.org
- There’s something funny about the female gaze: Alina Perez at Yossi Milo, Janice Nowinski at Thomas Erben, Mira Schor at Lyles & King, Nicola Tyson at Petzel
- Alone again, naturally: huge survey of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Smokin’ pots: 4 shows with cutting-edge ceramics Takuro Kuwata at Salon 94; Simphiwe Mbunyuza at Kordansky; Sarah Rosalena at Sargents Daughters, Rubén Ortiz-Torres @wallachartgallery.bsky.social
- LA Chicanx en NYC: rafa esparza with Beatriz Cortez in their collab at Americas Society; Rubén Ortiz Torres at @wallachartgallery.bsky.social, Alfonso González Jr at Deitch (just closed)
- POV: You quit Meta & joined @bsky.app, but you don’t know how it works. So I made a Bluesky onboarding guide for perplexed art professionals. Sign up for my newsletter to get it: robincembalest.com#newsletter
- Befuddled by IG’s new changes? Stuck on your artist statement? Join my 3 FREE Artist Lab workshops with @creativecapital.bsky.social! Series begins Weds, 1/29. Sign up and learn more robincembalest.com/upcoming-wor...
- How did I reinvent myself from ARTnews editor to Instagram influencer? How do I see so many shows? And what did I ask Warhol? Find out in my interview on The Art Pod! youtu.be/j6p5frgsgG8?...
- Hi everyone! Looking forward to connecting & reconnecting & figuring out how to make best use of this app! 🐦
