The wild thing is that there was possibly as much as an entire decade in which Christopher Wool might have known that Ivanka Trump had bought one of his prints, and he might have just thought, “lol weird but whatever.”
And if he just stayed silent during the first administration, when Ivanka was in the White House, but the print wasn’t in her instagram feed, he could have just clammed up and let Richard Prince do all the disavowing.
But now, with her tryna be just a pensive bookfluencer in her DWR chair, dropping her reading list, while her civilian husband cuts a side deal with Putin her dad just [gestures to all this], does Wool feel a little different about his screenprinted exploration of the meaning of abstract painting being used as a backdrop for the regime? Or is it just par for the course? [@crampell.bsky.social via @chrisrusak.com]
[one google search later: oh right, we’ve all known since 2016. I guess Wool just decided to walk the Marfa desert and collect barbed wire about it.]