If someone called me up and asked me to represent the United States of America at the Venice Biennale, you better believe I’m saying yes.

Annie Armstrong at the Clemente Bar for a one-lot Fair Warning auction: "Mugrabi whispered into his cell during the action, but he told me after that he hadn’t been bidding during the call. (He suggested that I was a “piece of shit” for asking.)" news.artnet.com/market/warho...

Cathy Fan, with a rollicking dispatch from Shanghai: news.artnet.com/market/shang...

Thank you to the great critic Martha Schwendener for suggesting that New York Times readers follow my Instagram, where I have wasted countless years of my life. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...

Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

Forcing me to scan a QR code to view a checklist? Why don’t you just spit in my face? Appalling. Make it stop.

Very disturbing to receive a ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ when coming and going from the Gagosian gallery. What is going on?

I am once again renewing my call for David Zwirner to open a project space for emerging artists called DZ Discovery Zone.

From The Archives: ‘We Will Never Speak Of This Again,’ Says Trump To Mohammed Bin Salman As They Dump Khashoggi’s Body Into New Jersey River https://theonion.com/we-will-never-speak-of-this-again-says-trump-to-moha-1830547181/

From the inbox: "Städelschule seeks Professor of Fine Art"

Tonight in 1990 — Laura Palmer’s killer was revealed on TWIN PEAKS. ABC insisted, and David Lynch + Mark Frost delivered a chilling episode. But Lynch hated closure, and he got his payback with a finale cliffhanger it took 25 years to resolve. And even then, he still left us wondering. #TwinPeaks

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

critiquing capitalism from the inside, since 1973; a speedrun through Gerhard Richter's 50+ year history of making Lobby Art greg.org/archive/2025...

Wrote the New York Times 'Galleries' column this week about three absolute barnburners: – ALEX KATZ at Gladstone – TISHAN HSU at Lisson – ON KAWARA at Turqouise and 125 Maiden Lane Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

Alma Allen in Venice? Sure, why not.

Shanghai gets an alternative fair with a good name: Hang Over. news.artnet.com/market/hang-...

You don't hear much about the croque monsieur these days, but what a great sandwich. An undersung lunch option.

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

Blade Richter 2049

3 unexpected art delights in Midtown Manhattan, including enormous Gerhard Richters in the menacing JPMorgan Chase building news.artnet.com/art-world/3-...

"They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

Tonight, B. Wurtz, the inimitable sculptor and freethinking polymath, opened his 58th solo show, at the Garth Greenan Gallery in Chelsea. I profiled him for 'T: The New York Times Magazine of Style.' Here's a foundational work: 'Three Important Things (1973/2022) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/t...

Debra Levine had a theater class do "Make a Salad" (1962) at NYUAD one semester, pouring ingredients from a balcony above a dining hall entrance, and the food services team went berserk. RIP to a giant.

RIP Alison Knowles, the free-spirited and generous conceptual artist, a legend among legends in the Fluxus gang. 1933–2025. Tonight, we eat salad.

A lovely T Magazine profile by @russeth.bsky.social of undersung artist B. Wurtz, who for decades has made lyrical artworks out of humble everyday objects, & who has a show opening at Garth Greenan Gallery in Chelsea this very evening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/t...

"We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life?" —Keynes, 1942 jwmason.org/slackwire/ke...

I love the New York Public Library

I have been to two Uptown galleries today where a staffer has been enjoying delicious-smelling Thai food for lunch. A trend?

Pass by Wegmans without buying a cookie from its famous cookie bar? It’s never been done. Folks, it’s never been done.

The Louvre closed to the public after the heist. These Americans got a private tour news.artnet.com/art-world/am...

Vanity Fair: What is it that you most dislike? Larry Gagosian: When there are not enough chocolate chips in a scoop of chocolate chip ice cream. www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

In his new works, Gerhard Richters is "investigating the existence of a subjective visual reality that somehow exceeds the bounds of real-world perception," David Zwirner says. The MUNCH Triennale "is an invitation to suspend current realities and imagine differently," according to a news release.

Palantir limited-edition merch drop! 😍 www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

your whales must be seen before they can be killed

"We probably would hit almost every bar and just have a beer—any bar below 14th Street, at some point, we probably visited at one time or another,” Koons said [of Prince]. “I think everybody enjoyed beer, and we enjoyed sitting around and talking about art.” www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

We need more art fairs. I hear this all the time. Not enough art fairs out there. We need more. All the same galleries in new places. More.

I’m told that if you attend all eight Frieze fairs in one calendar year, you win a Damien Hirst spot painting.

Sam Pulitzer, 'occasion and material (I),' 2018

Mrs. Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside, 1963

The feeling when you forget to include the word 'Duchamp' when you search for 'Large Glass'

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

Currently riding a free bus in Albuquerque. Also buses are free in Albuquerque. What a town!

The feeling when you need to call your friend Ansel Adams, and you are Georgia O’Keeffe.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s home on Ghost Ranch in New Mexico

What to see in New York galleries right now? I have three suggestions in the New York Times: Alix Cléo Roubaud at Galerie Buchholz (astonishing, moving), Urs Fischer at Salon 94 Design (spectacular, dumb), and Cindy Ji Hye Kim at Casey Kaplan (masterful, spectral) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

A Mary Boone poster for a 1981 group. Via Gallery 98

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Repeal the Second Amendment www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/o...