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Week in Review: Leon Black to Cede Role as MoMA Chair; 5Pointz Site Whitewashed
Also, LA displaced unhoused community members from Echo Park, leaving behind a community art-led garden, and more.
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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine
This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Austin, Montreal, and Toronto.
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Whimsical Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol Ephemera Sell at Auction
The top lot in Bonhams’ Fine Books & Manuscripts sale was an artist's cat book by Warhol, which sold for $106,562.
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We Asked the Art World to Explain NFTs, and No One Could
According to a recent survey of 1,000 art collectors, 53% admitted to having only a vague understanding of NFT technology and 37% said they had “no clue” what NFTs were.
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MoMA Buys Amazon Rainforest to Offset Newly Donated NFT Collection
MoMA plans to organize trips to the Amazon starting in 2022 for trustees and other donors to showcase the institution’s innovative approach to collecting.
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Millionaire Art Collectors Unionize, Protesting Their Billionaire Competition
Art-loving millionaires banded together to fight the growing monopoly of billionaires at art auctions, on museum boards, and at art fairs.
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Hudson Yards Vessel to Be Dismantled and Sold as NFT
The structure, which has proved a danger to the public due to its low guardrails, will be destroyed.
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Man Loses World’s Largest Digital Art Collection After He Can’t Remember His Password
The $200 million collection include a lesser Beeple and a series of early-net fractals.
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Six NYC Museum Directors Sign on for Bravo’s Latest Reality Show
The directors will duke out the juiciest drama of the cultural sector in one Manhattan apartment.
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Christie’s Launches Streaming Service That Allows You to Watch Money Being Laundered in Real-Time
White-collar criminals everywhere are toasting the legacy auction house.
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Brooklyn Museum’s KAWS Exhibition Named #1 Site for Bad Tinder Dates in NYC
The go-to spot for finance bros to take their online paramours edged out fierce competition.
Art
Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony
In Vignette, Abbey Williams explores how Black affective space persists within and outside the constricted frame of the white gaze.