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the making of “Command and Control”
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A Swing and a Miss
When it’s time to trash a painting.
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Color Blind, Lyric Deaf
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Two New Paintings
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You Are What You Eat
Jan 25, 2024 • Aaron Nagel
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A Swing and a Miss
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Color Blind, Lyric Deaf
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A new one, "Bitter Arrows"
Jul 3, 2024 • Aaron Nagel
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"Patron Saint of Turned Tables"
Feb 22, 2024 • Aaron Nagel
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Two New Paintings
From two different directions
Mar 6 • 
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A new one, "Bitter Arrows"
Painting for painting.
Jul 3, 2024 • 
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"Patron Saint of Turned Tables"
A print release and some process
Feb 22, 2024 • 
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You Are What You Eat
Recently, a good friend recommended a podcast where the journalist Ezra Klein shares his thoughts on a “sane way to use the internet”.
Jan 25, 2024 • 
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Certain Rules, part 1: Samples
Finding depravity in line for ice cream
Oct 13, 2023 • 
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Consumption vs. Creation
The challenges of making art in the age of streaming everything.
Sep 15, 2023 • 
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The Problem is Not Instagram
an opinion from one corner of the art world
Aug 18, 2023 • 
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Certain Rules
Certain Rules
a newsletter about art, being an artist, and certain rules to live by. by aaron nagel and friends.
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