This month I thought I was going to write a really long piece about art on Instagram and artists using Instagram and galleries using Instagram and Instagram #takeovers and how I personally use Instagram. I was also going to make some observations about the strange things that pop up in your ‘Discover’ page and how occasionally people notice if you haven’t liked their posts and then mention it when they see you out at an opening and you say ‘Ohhh, haven’t I? Sorry!”
But then I discovered that there’s a ‘Posts You’ve Liked’ folder that appears under your profile settings and I went looking through it and got distracted for a few hours. So instead, in no particular order, here’s twenty six chosen-at-random images (of hundreds) that I’ve double tapped during the last month.
A painting from 2010 by American artist @austinlee
Before and After, 4, 1962 by Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum. Posted by @vasilikaliman
My favourite (well, top three at the least) Linda Marrinon sculpture, from the artist’s show at MUMA, Melbourne. Photo by @legoflamb1
Presented without comment. By one of my favourite accounts to follow, @contemporaryary
A post by @kunstsammler of this painting by Torey Thornton, who has an upcoming solo exhibition at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Work by Andrew Kerr as part of The gallery is beside a church, apartments and a small park with a fountain at Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo. Post by @themoderninstitute
@tcb_artinc’s image of a work by Josey Kidd Crowe, part of their 2015 Fundraiser.
Rebecca Warren’s Croccioni, 2000, by @maureen_paley which I saw at The Saatchi Gallery in 2011.
Brown Council by @browncouncil
From Robert Macpherson’s exhibition The Painter’s Reach at GOMA, Brisbane. Image posted by @artandaustralia
Hahahahappy painting by @pjdoublediddy
Costume by Rivane Neuenschwander for her 2015 commission at Whitechapel Gallery. Photo by @jerkscully
Maybe she’s born with it by @n40m10
Work by Ron Nagle, posted by @joseph_allen_shea
Dad Drawing, 1995-96, by Ronnie van Hout. Posted by @darrenknightgallery
This #bloodsugarchecksmagic update by @gisellestanborough
Urs Fischer at @themoderninstitute
Ceramics and hand by @emilyhuntrulesok
The genius of #JeanDubuffet by @caseykaplangallery
A new work by Ugo Rondinone to be included in the artist’s upcoming exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London. (Also, I like that this reminds me of Bart Simpson.) Post by @lookingatpainting
The happiest sculpture on Instagram by @rosiedeacon
I first saw Tala Madani’s work in 2011 in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and have enjoyed following her practice since. This work, Untitled, 2015 was featured in her solo exhibition Smiley has no nose at @davidkordanskygallery earlier this month.
A post by @masonkimber of Mary MacDougall’s tile painting from the recent exhibition Casual Conversation, Verging on Harassment at Minerva, Sydney
This painting by an artist who I’m really enjoying at the moment, @stefaniabatoeva.
UK based artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at the Edinburgh Art Festival. Photo by @Glasgow_International
Jean Arp’s Moustaches, 1925, posted by @adamtullie
