Michael Bolin

03/27/2026

WIP

01/12/2026

"Princess"
2025 Michael Bolin

09/13/2025

The purpose of this exhibition is to answer an overwhelming request by artists and patrons of Jasper’s inaugural Degenerate Art Project (July 2025) for an additional exhibition which will involve an open call for visual artists and an extended calendar for exhibition. This iteration of the project...

08/18/2025

🤝❤️ The heart sees only kindness, never categories.

07/26/2025

With National Portrait Gallery – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

07/21/2025

06/13/2025

"Phoenix Rising"
Oil on Canvas. 20in. x 16in.
Michael Bolin
🇺🇲⚡️🔱☯️🔱⚡️🇺🇸

06/12/2025

Bitsy and Hermione say the problem with political jokes is that they get elected!

05/10/2025

Donald Trump never meant to keep his promises. His voters are starting to notice, Yair Rosenberg writes.⁠ https://theatln.tc/vqeoqFvT
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On Sunday, Trump told Americans that their children should make do with less. “They don’t need to have 30 dolls; they can have three,” the president said on “Meet the Press.” The comments contradicted campaign commitments: Throughout his 2024 run, the president promised Americans a return to the prosperity of his pre-COVID first term, while also promising to impose steep tariffs on consumer goods.⁠
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“These two pledges could not be reconciled, and once elected, Trump was forced to choose between them,” Rosenberg writes. The results have disillusioned many of those who voted for him, and his approval on the economy has plunged.⁠
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It’s not just the economy. “On issue after issue, whether domestic policy or foreign affairs, the president made incompatible assurances to rival camps on the campaign trail—to business bigwigs and working-class factory hands, anti-war isolationists and anti-Iran hawks,” Rosenberg continues. “Now that Trump is in office, the bill for these guarantees is coming due, and he is making decisions that will inevitably alienate one of his constituencies. Some of the supporters who are not getting what they were promised are beginning to feel ripped off, putting the coalition that propelled Trump to his narrow popular-vote victory in jeopardy.”⁠
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“These disappointments were entirely predictable,” Rosenberg writes. “Because Trump lacks many core convictions, voters from entirely opposite backgrounds convinced themselves that he would act in their interest as president—and he was happy to indulge their fantasies in exchange for their support by teasing tantalizing prizes to people across divides. But Trump’s transactionalism has limits, because even presidents who have few beliefs still need to act, and those actions have consequences for the world and for the politician’s coalition.”⁠
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📸: Jim Watson / AFP / Getty

04/13/2025

"The Delphic Sybil"
after Michelangelo
16in. X 20in. 1998
Michael Bolin/ bolin

03/12/2025

"Phoenix Rising"
Michael Bolin
Oil on canvas paper
16" x 20"