Nicholas Sawicki

I spent a few days late this summer buried in Kafka’s drawings, newly unveiled and placed online @NLIsrael. I have a few thoughts about how we might look at them. You can read more here in @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/kafka-…

@FrancescaBerry9 David was such an incredibly kind, thoughtful person, generous to younger scholars and always curious about their work. Rigorous in his own writing, which cut right through mythologies, peeling them back to reveal what had been there all along. Sadness and wonder.

I am sad and sorry to say that my friend, the outstanding Cubism scholar, Professor David Cottington has died. His work - low on Cubism heroics, carefully argued - will always be read by me and my students. I will remember him also as generous, gentle and funny, impish even.

@alexjzucker Orsay—sorry! I have a similar photo stashed somewhere, from a bit later.

@alexjzucker Is that the view from behind the clock at the d’Orsee, Alex, and would that help with “when”?

@alexjzucker Fantasic news, Alex—congratulations to you both!

@alexjzucker Another possibility, in a more technical register, would be to call it crenelated.

@dominik_matus Mokré knihy! Hlavně, aby k tomu nedošlo…

Kamarád v Brně potřebuje pomoct s vymyšlením názvu pro hospodu kombinovanou s antikvariátem. Bude možno si knihy číst, koupit atp. Napadá vás něco? 😋

@alexjzucker @yalepress Congratulations, Alex—what a great way to ring in the new year!

Beyond the headlines of each new election cycle, our incredible, richly layered city of Bethlehem is all this: hope, loss, and the resilience of a community that always gets back on its feet. My colleague Shimon Attie’s photo essay from his project Starstruck @LehighU

@alexjzucker Congratulations, Alex—sounds like a great project!

We're hiring! Art, Architecture and Design @LehighU has four tenure-track openings: architecture, graphic design, industrial design, sculpture. Yes, you really do want to be here! At a university custom-built for makers, designers, and creative thinkers. And the views!

@steeltoslots @LUArtGalleries We’d love for you to see the exhibition, Chloe. It’s up through Dec 3. We also have a forthcoming monograph with @_blackdogpress Feel free to DM me for details, or if you’re coming through the area.

I first heard about the seeds of this Bethlehem-sited work from Shimon Attie a couple years ago and only wish I’d have a chance to see it @LUArtGalleries!

@WithEdSimon @LUArtGalleries We’re stoked to be working with you, Ed. These are stories that matter, and with your help, they’re getting out into the world.

Also very excited to announce the forthcoming publication of a monograph for the project, with contributions by Hannah Klemm, William Crow, @WithEdSimon, myself and others. Pre-orders available @_blackdogpress

Incredibly pleased to share that Shimon Attie, our colleague and artist in residence @LehighU will speak tonight at 5:30 on his new exhibition Starstruck: An American Tale @LUArtGalleries, which runs to Dec 3. If you’re in the area, please join us!

@WithEdSimon @belt_magazine Congratulations Ed, and looking forward to our project together!

An incredible job by @estorick and my colleague Maria Elena Versari, who curated the Archipenko show—and for this wall label at the entrance.

A few days of archives and libraries, a presentation with colleagues tonight, and a stop in for Archipenko and the Italian Avant Garde ⁦@Estorick⁩—a lovely small exhibition on one of the best known of Ukrainian modernists.

This Thursday I'll be @lbi_london @ghilondon speaking about Kafka's newly unveiled drawings with Andreas Kilcher, whose new book is out with @yaleARTbooks. I wrote about them last year for @LAReviewofBooks, incredible images that are just now starting to see the light.

14 children and a teacher, hardly a week after Buffalo. Two mass shootings. How we've accepted this much suffering as normative in this country, for so long, is beyond me. A violence we have every opportunity to prevent, and we choose not to. If not now, when?

And Matisse’s charcoal portrait of Sergei Shchukin from 1912, the Russian collector and patron who turned down the Red Studio, for rather prosaic reasons—and was later dispossessed of most of his collection during the revolution.

In between meetings in New York, a stop in for Matisse’s Red Studio at MoMA. The kind of show where you could spend hours. Instead of paintings, I give you the design of the studio, which he contracted from a maker of prefabricated outbuildings and sheds.