Kevin Buist

For @artforum.com I wrote about @chan.gallery's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at Nguyen Wahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. www.artforum.com/columns/mitc...

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Bighorn Range, 10/27/2026, 11:03:33 AM

This is a name recognition poll, and it lands pretty much where I would expect. Nothing to do with 2028, however.

Yeah, I'm voting for Democrats next week. But I want to be clear about what I want them to do. I want them to put these assholes in prison. All the way to the top.

This is an extremely niche tweet, but I’m sorry to report that Rob Bell is making bad paintings now.

Meta’s Muse AI wants me to make this dark Rothko “look 3D animated.”

This Spirit Halloween is in a space that used to be a very large fabric store. They’re not using the whole space, so over the back wall you can see that the ceiling and the lights extend much further back. Nice backrooms vibes.

Hey what’s up I made an apple pie.

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Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The Yawner (or Man with Open Mouth), 1564

E532 Ghost-like picture.

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I think shooting film has made me a better photographer with my phone, but I also have this feeling that iPhone photos don’t count.

#sculpture

Check out this Xbox I saw on Facebook Marketplace.

after a tumblr user was told a painting in the illinois governor's mansion was a rothko from the pritzkers' own collection, i tried to imagine the pritzkers chopping a rothko to fit the newly handpainted dining room wall. greg.org/archive/2026...

Another incredible source of found photography. This bot that posts whatever people attached to the Google Maps profiles of various restaurants.

The first results of the weird 3D camera I got at an estate sale.

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Reviewing some 35mm scans. As usual most of them are terrible and I'm wondering if I'm wasting time and money. But then a few of them seem to have something going on. I'll share later.

Here's my @letterboxd.social review of You Can See Everything.

Incredible that CNN fumbled this *so hard* and the WALL STREET JOURNAL is like, "Failed gotcha, Abdul is using it to his advantage." Yes, that's the one line summary of what happened. Obviously. For anyone with a brain.

I've been going through life thinking the opposite of whatever this guy says, so this is a little jarring.

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Q: Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood? El-Sayed: Yes. Why are you asking the question? Do you assume that I wouldn’t? Q: Yes, because I have not heard you disavow them yet. El-Sayed: Have you disavowed them? I have not heard you disavow them yet.

I've really been enjoying photography lately. One thing I've noticed is that if you get a picture with a lot going on (objects, actions, characters, textures) it can be good as long as it holds together. A shot with a medium amount of stuff is usually bad. A shot with very little is usually good.

I think John Barron should be Press Secretary. He just has to do all of the press conferences over the phone. No reason.