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William Powhida

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Capital and Complicity in the Art World

by Zach Ritter September 28, 2019September 27, 2019

William Powhida reorients our perspective away from the individuals who lead and fundraise for cultural institutions and redirects it toward international flows of capital.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2017

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 30, 2017January 4, 2021

A year of truth-telling and electric painting.

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Life After Art: William Powhida’s Futures Market

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 22, 2017May 17, 2017

A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.

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When Great Art Makes You LOL

by Alicia Eler and Alex Huntsberger February 20, 2017January 11, 2021

Is funny art actually funny? The answer, as we see it, is a rousing chorus of “it depends.”

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The Pursuit of Art, 2016

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 31, 2016January 15, 2017

The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.

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In Philip Guston’s Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 12, 2016

Over 170 caricatures of Richard Nixon offer an instructive precedent for artists struggling to overcome political and creative blocks in one leap.

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The Shelf Life of Political Art

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 23, 2016July 26, 2016

Tucked into a side wall at Postmasters Gallery in Tribeca, as part of a handsome group show called Grayscale, there are five new drawings by William Powhida, one of which is titled “Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole…”

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A Public Art Project Invites Gentrifiers to Confess Their Sins

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 24, 2016May 31, 2016

On a Saturday evening a few weekends ago, several artists, performers, activists, and writers gathered at an apartment in Chelsea to discuss their relationship to the city-wide process of gentrification.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2014

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 27, 2014December 30, 2014

The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.

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The Frontier of the Art World

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 2, 2014October 2, 2014

GALVESTON, Texas — The idea of a boomtown is part of the myth of the United States of America. Like dreamers huddled around storytellers in an ethereal oasis, Americans like tales of prosperity that lead to legends of streets paved with gold.

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Did a Few Tweets Force Frieze to Unionize?

by Alex Teplitzky April 11, 2014December 29, 2021

On April 9, Frieze New York and city labor unions announced that they had reached a settlement regarding using unionized workers for their fair in May.

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Like It Is: William Powhida at Postmasters

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli April 5, 2014April 9, 2014

William Powhida has been tracking the feeding habits of the oligarchy for years, which makes it seem almost prophetic that the Supreme Court struck down overall spending limits on Federal elections during the run of Overculture, his second solo show at Postmasters Gallery.

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