Christopher Knight Profile
Christopher Knight

@KnightLAT

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Knight, Pulitzer Prize & Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award, 11/9/21 Jeopardy! answer, is L.A. Times art critic. Pro-woke. Also @christopher .knight.7 on threads

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Christopher Knight
5 years
Take me out to the ballgame.
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Chants of “lock him up!” at World Series after Trump shown on Jumbotron
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“Bot Sentinel, a Twitter analytics firm, has documented a well-organized internet campaign against Meghan... 70% of hateful posts about Meghan originated from just 83 Twitter accounts with an estimated collective potential reach of 17 million users.”
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Seems Manila is about to lose one of its greatest modern buildings to a developers’ wrecking ball - the Philamlife Auditorium (1961) by Carlos Arguelles. Tragic.
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@JarrettStepman Hey, Goober. Your parents got a postcard to confirm your address. They didn’t get your “ballot.” I got one too. Just stop it.
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@SpeakerMcCarthy Oh, Kevin. Stop. You're embarrassing yourself. Again.
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@tedcruz Beto is right. Thanks for posting.
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4 years
Gasp...
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4 years
The great @KnightLAT has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. LA and the LA Times are lucky to have such an acute and intrepid critic chronicling art in our city and in the world.
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@shannonrwatts NB: The good guys did not have guns but stopped the bad guy with a gun.
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“We are devastated to report that Big Basin, as we have known it, loved it, and cherished it for generations, is gone .... We do not yet know the fate of the park’s grandest old trees.”
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Merrick “Garland’s greatest character flaw might be that he lacks the decency to tender his resignation …” A slam-dunk must-read.
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3 months
I hope after the Hur fiasco, even Merrick Garland's ardent defenders can see that the dude has got to go. His commitment to being "apolitical" has led to some desperately political decisions. My breakdown of his greatest flaws in @thenation
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“We are not aiming at having more visitors or larger attendance...,” Biesenbach said in an interview. “As a civic institution, [an art museum] should be like a library, where you can just walk in.”
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Tonight on the TeeVee, I was an answer on Jeopardy! I've been in jeopardy before, but never on Jeopardy! before.
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@WMurphyNews @ltgovmcnally @BillLeeTN The Lt. Gov. is merely fashion-forward.
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Dave Hickey, the critic whose best-selling book "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy" is arguably the most influential work of art criticism of the last quarter-century, has died at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., at 82. A full obituary will follow.
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2 years
What a scam. A 20% pay cut to work from home, with no change in productivity (and maybe even an increase)? What about considering work-from-home as an employee benefit, costing virtually nothing?
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2 years
Incredible: For $10 million, a public university in effect “sold” part of its art museum to a rich artist of no distinction for permanent display of her paintings
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7 years
@SpeakerRyan Then how come only the top 5% of Americans get that break in your cruel plan? And why won't you be truthful?
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4 years
“"In America today, a country we call a democracy or a republic, when there is a fork in the road between what is good for money and what is good for people, what is good for money routinely wins," Giridharadas said”
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5 years
Today in graphic design:
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2 years
Memories...
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Sarah Kendzior
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“It is ridiculous that we are in this deja news cycle where I appear on TV again and again to have the same conversation about Kushner lying on his clearance forms. They need to indict Jared Kushner, indict Ivanka Trump, and get this crime family out of the White House!" #AMJoy
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3 years
More of this reporting please:
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Mehdi Hasan
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Courtesy of the @MehdiHasanShow ... Mike Pompeo, then and now:
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4 years
This is a crime scene.
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Acyn
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“His name spelled out in fireworks”
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@AdamSerwer The Tennessean story is better than the brief NYT rewrite of it. It’s here:
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6 years
An excellent minute.
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4 years
The Baltimore Museum of Art is now the leading poster child for art collection carelessness. If the sell-off to fund operations sets a precedent for other art museums, the public loss will be immense
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Signs of cultural collapse:
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@RpsAgainstTrump Yup, the big news is right there in paragraph 47.
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@conor64 I’ve read them too. And no, their substance is not often “far more defensible than you'd think.” In fact, it’s often even more appalling.
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Yes: “This is not Law we’re dealing with. This is Inquisition. This is theocratic forces using the apparatus of the state to force their religious views on everybody else.”
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Damage to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's reputation will be far more expensive than the $300,000 separating union and management. Contract negotiations began two years ago. Two years. via @phillyinquirer
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@DavidCornDC @realDonaldTrump Revenge & fatalism. He learned his evil Roy Cohn lessons well.
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@bobcesca_go Tried to run for Michigan governor last year but was deemed by the state’s elections bureau to have filed thousands of fraudulent nominating signatures
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4 years
Pointed museum question: "How can we build a different kind of art world, one in which our lives and livelihoods are not dependent on millionaire directors and billionaire donors?"
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6 years
LA license plate of the day.
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@petestrzok Stuck in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic the other day, it occurred to me: You know what would fix the traffic problem? More cars. Thanks Dan.
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4 years
The carved narrative murals on the side walls by Filipino sculptor José Alcántara have been removed and are now in the National Museum of Fine Arts
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4 years
With this patronizing decision, four major museums, including our National Gallery of Art, essentially acknowledge their incompetence in presenting major art. What could be more timely than this show?
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Since judges are supposed to show good judgment, what does it say when a SCOTUS nominee happily attends a mostly mask-free, not socially distanced super-spreader event?
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7 years
@realDonaldTrump Will the wall be made of chocolate cake?
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@MollyJongFast Perfect answer, though.
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This: "What the surge in auctions of high-priced artworks really brings home is the weakness of arguments against higher marginal income tax rates on the wealthy..."
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Stopped in @GettyMuseum today and took a look at the newly acquired Bronzino. Wowza. (Even the over-the-top gilded frame doesn't get in the way.) Seems pretty pristine too.
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@MattWallace888 Stop it. That’s a bald-faced lie, spewed by a cruel bigot.
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4 years
Trump ate the marshmallow. Thread:
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Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦
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COVID Update May 28: If Trump has done one simple thing he would have changed the course of history. 1/
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@emptywheel “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” Donald Trump to the Acting Attorney General and Acting Deputy AG. December 27, 2020.
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For the first time in memory, considerably more women than men had full-scale solo exhibitions, whether retrospectives or more focused surveys, in L.A. art museums this year - Los Angeles Times
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@EdWhelanEPPC I checked the Zillow floor plan again and couldn’t find a “narrow hallway.” Are you sure?
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Barbara Kruger paste-up, made four decades ago, currently on view at Spruth-Magers LA.
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Fascinating interactive mapping of the indigenous people who resided in what became Los Angeles.
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Here's why you want doctors, not GOP politicians, in the exam room overseeing women's health care.
@therecount
The Recount
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Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) during his debate with Democrat Beto O'Rourke claims Plan B is an appropriate alternative to abortion access for anyone pregnant due to rape or incest.
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@JimLaPorta @SarahHuckabee Shorter @SarahHuckabee : I was there when POTUS didn't say those things.
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@realDonaldTrump I'm confused. You mean he should have done something while you were claiming the election was rigged? Hunh. What?
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A bible duct-taped to a baseball bat to make a destructive weapon is an ideal symbol for Christian nationalism.
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@Imposter_Edits Fire this cop. “Incompetence with a deadly weapon” is surely a thing. Fire him before he fires an innocent victim.
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@petestrzok “United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers.”
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3 years
Endowments at NY’s Metropolitan Museum have risen a whopping $800 million during the pandemic. So why is it selling collection art now claiming a need for income to pay operating bills?
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1 year
Truth:
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Sarah Kendzior
1 year
"Reporters love to come to my part of the country and find three old guys in MAGA hats and pretend they're the Trump base. But the real Trump base was always New York: Wall Street, tabloid media, Rudy Giuliani, Carl Icahn, Roy Cohn, Jeff Zucker. THAT is the Trump base."
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It's probably time to figure out ways for the blue states, like CA, to stop subsidizing red states, like TN, that are legislating hate, bigotry, Christian nationalism, etc.
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2 years
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” ― Harry S. Truman
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I have seen so many variations of “How dare president Biden politicize the authoritarian assault on democracy! So partisan!” - and not a single one of these takes deserves to be taken seriously. A predictable fog of bad-faith, pseudo-“neutral” nonsense.
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“The Brutish Museums,” Dan Hicks’ indispensable book, posits two looted Benin bronzes in L.A. art museums. I took a look. Turns out there are at least six — and maybe as many as 19.
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The unprecedented show of Renaissance portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger opens today @GettyMuseum . I'll have a review later, but for now: Wow.
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“When you use totalitarian tactics, people begin to act crazy...” Uh, yeah.
@TheDemCoalition
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BREAKING: Video of Devin Nunes defending protestors who yelled the "n-word" at US Rep John Lewis: "I think people have every right to say what they want. If they wanna smear someone, they can do it." Nunes is terrible. Dug up @TheDemCoalition . From 2010.
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Countless artists died during the Black Death, casualties among the millions who succumbed — 25 million, 40 million, no one really knows how many. The artistic loss was huge. But what about the living? How deeply was the entire culture shaken?
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The ongoing reclaiming of the #ProudBoys hashtag by gay men is a thing of beauty. Here’s Christian Schad’s 1929 drawing, “Boys in Love” from the great “New Objectivity” exhibition @LACMA
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@JosiahRyan @mmfa The original version of the song was in the movie “American Graffiti.” The lyric is about high school kids.
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@harrylitman Translation of “unborn human”: person who does not exist. (How one can kill a person who does not exist is hard to say.)
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“A passionate call for immediate action against the 'transnational crime syndicate' that has supplanted the U.S. government." —Kirkus. Now, that is a recommendation.
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My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, is out now! On forty years of elite criminal impunity that led to the hardships of today. Learn the truth:
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@MSNBC @MaddowBlog Gunn added, “I believe life begins at conception.” That is false, scientifically and medically speaking. Even the Bible disagrees (see Genesis 2:7). Why should this guy’s religious “belief,” confused or not, become secular law?
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Christopher Knight
4 years
Thanks, Roberta. 😎
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It’s a good day when an art critic wins the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, esp one who’s been at it as long and as effectively as @KnightLAT And in the same year he received the Rabkin Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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And, in International news, this:
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Scott Dworkin
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Fox News went to a bar to cover the soccer game, then everyone started chanting “fuck Trump!” on live tv.
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Happy to have received the 2022 criticism prize for art/architecture/design from the @LAPressClub at last night's gala. Thanks!
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The facade of @LACMA 's 1985 Art of the Americas building came down today. All at once.
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Kieran's Odd Outings
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End of an era for LACMA.
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"I went to art when I had the maturity to be an artist, when I knew I had something to say. I talk to young artists and I say, watch out for art schools. Art is a reflection of what you gain in life — from the pains in life."
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@realDonaldTrump Mr. Ossoff received 48.1 percent of the vote. Isn't that more than you got?
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@djrothkopf Here’s one productive way to address the issue of Biden’s age: “Obviously you lose a step physically as you age, but the presidency doesn’t require carrying sofas up the White House stairs.” Science: “…aging brains make more connections…”
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Tragic news: Artist Chris Burden, 69, has died after an 18-month struggle with melanoma. http://t.co/oM8JeVD2nJ
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“What I can see is the deterioration of a major power on the edge of collapse. The issue is not simply the deeply rooted racism and other related issues... but rather a moral and ethical vacuum in the time of global corporate authoritarianism.”
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Last night I got an invitation from @LACMA : "Join us one hour before the museum opens ... for a special members-only yoga session inspired by the artwork on view in 'Julie Mehretu' ... A very limited number of mats will be available..." Uh, no. And don't ever ask me that again.
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“Two marquee buildings including the high-rise were designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, best known as the lead designer of the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington.”
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@CharlesPPierce Yes! Linda Hirshman in The Nation: "The political leaders who did the best answering Tim Russert's questions in the last 7 years - D. Rumsfeld, D. Cheney and C. Powell - are authors of the most disastrous American foreign policy since the Vietnam War, and maybe since 1776.”
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@DonaldJTrumpJr I'm confused. "Trump assassination play"? Don't you mean Shakespeare's anti-assassination play, "Julius Caesar"?
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