Impeach Kristi Noem

Idea for a business: Do all of the artist birthday Instagram posts for galleries. Sliding scale, depending on the artist's prices/number of fairs that the gallery does annually.

I guest wrote Artnet's 'Wet Paint' column this week. The news: – Downtown is getting a promising new nonprofit – Esther Kim Varet raises big money for her House run – Mesler and Kordansky part ways, sort of – Ron Lauder loves Trump's Greenland push – More, more, more news.artnet.com/market/times...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Call me Ishmael.

No more Jeffrey Gibson commissions, please. We've seen enough.

Artnet is hiring a Wet Paint columnist recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

I always go to sea as a sailor

Feel like I’m the kind of guy who could take off work and celebrate the Day of Truth and Freedom. Why not me?

The former New York church that long held Freddy, artist Joshua Abelow's scrappy gallery, is on the market. But the Freddy project continues. news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

Schjeldahl: "I decided long ago that I’m not going to take the developments of the world personally. Nobody gets up in the morning with the intention of making me feel bad. If I feel bad, it’s on me." www.interviewmagazine.com/art/peter-sc...

This is the big one, folks. All Primary Information catalog books marked down 50 to 90 percent. Be careful with your credit card. primaryinformation.org

"Hello, my name is Martin Parr, and I am against what this magazine stands for." —From a 2014 letter that Martin Parr wrote, as an official contribution, to an unnamed Hong Kong fashion magazine, via Blindspot Gallery blindspotgallery.com/news/in-memo...

". . . it’s not stars or reels or lists that give a restaurant meaning—it’s going back, again and again." —Tejal Rao in a great column on restaurants closing. Much of what she writes is true of galleries, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/d...

Remind me to pump up my bike tires more often! I just did so, and I feel like the winged god Mercury.

Konrad Klapheck, 'Die Sittenrichter,' 1963. Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld.

Disappointed to learn that I enjoy the band "Geese"

Impeach the President

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in fine form in Artforum www.artforum.com/columns/caro...

hey yo, new art writing mixtape just dropped. thanks to everyone who called in! greg.org/archive/2026...

Finally read Tatiana Schlossberg's New Yorker essay. Astonishingly beautiful. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

With moments to go before 2026, I have finally finished my annual list of my favorite shows of 2025. www.16miles.com/2025/12/top-...

How am I only now learning that Carl Jung had a message from the Oracle of Delphi inscribed on his house in Küsnacht, Switzerland? "Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit." www.cgjunghaus.ch/en/museum/th...

The best artworks I saw this year: Michael Heizer's 'City' (1970–2022) and Jordan Wolfson's 'Little Room' (2025) news.artnet.com/art-world/be...

Wrote about the galleries that closed in 2025 in a column for Artnet news.artnet.com/art-world/co...

RIP Robert Mnuchin. Few have gone harder in the exhibiting and selling of ultra-blue-chip art. His gallery radiated luxurious pleasure. It was not an accident that David Hammons chose to show there. news.artnet.com/art-world/ro...

I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Prætorians at the auction of the Roman empire

My review of 'Icons' at Sotheby's: Not enough icons!

The feeling when you order a rich and delicious hot chocolate from a noted Downtown cafe

One of the best shows in NYC now is Charisse Pearlina Weston at Jack Shainman, Chelsea, closing Dec 20. Happy to see this review by @russeth.bsky.social come in under the wire! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/a...

". . . the end of free speech and the free press" in Hong Kong —Mark Clifford, president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, on the Jimmy Lai verdict www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Like 50 percent of my Instagram ads are now sweepstakes entry forms. Coca-Cola is going to send me around the world? Let's do it. A Japanese tourism board will send me on a 5-day trip? I'm game. Great content. I honestly love it.

Thanks to Holland Cotter for the kind words about my work:

Four reviews in the New York Times 'Galleries' column today: – JEFF KOONS at Gagosian – PARK HYUNKI at Galler Hyundai – JOSEPH GEAGAN at Lomex – 'PHOTOS ON FRIDGES' at Harkawik www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/a...

Annie Armstrong signs of as Artnet's 'Wet Paint' columnist. An era ends. news.artnet.com/market/annie...

pretty sure we can get The Second Deposition of Richard Prince across the 1200 copies sold threshold in a couple of days lfg www.amazon.com/Second-Depos...

Very sad to hear that Ceal Floyer has died at 57. She was an artist of wit, and risk, and real humor—a very rare thing in art.

Feel like I’m the kind of guy who get a coffee from the Starbucks Reserve Roastery. Why not me?

FROM THE INBOX: "Art Basel’s hottest event ​this weekend wasn’t in a gallery—it was aboard the Sealyon Super Yacht, where renowned contemporary artist Brendan Murphy was the featured artist at the ultra-exclusive annual NewEdge Capital Group × Fuel Venture Capital celebration."

Swizz Beatz: "Tonight let’s do it different. Let’s celebrate the hustle, the craft, the reward. Let’s celebrate the ones who said no to easy, and yes to hard work." news.artnet.com/art-world/ar...

Frank Gehry: “Let me tell you one thing. In this world we are living in, 98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. There’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else." www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Like General George Washington, I am not exactly scoring victories watching ‘The American Revolution’ (I regularly fall asleep), but I am retreating bravely, living to fight another day. This war will be long, and I will prevail.

"I painted up until my paintings got too big to be on the wall anymore, I think that was 1976?" —Koons gagosian.com/quarterly/20...

Blazing through 100s of Instagram stories posted by art advisors from Art Basel Miami Beach. Clicking the heart only for works of which I approve. This, too, is art criticism.

It sneaks up on me: a quiet longing that grows more intense by the minute, gnawing at me. It can be satisfied in only one way. Yes. No doubt about it. It's time to watch 'Gerhard Richter Painting' (2011) for the 20th-odd time.

A very fine farewell column from Christopher Knight, who is signing off as Los Angeles Times art critic after 45 years in journalism www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Man Ray, 'Self-Portrait in Beret,' 1946

There are an astonishing number of great shows on view in New York right now.

"The founding team behind Kendall Jenner’s tequila brand is collaborating with 'one of Japan’s oldest and most respected tea farming families' to host an 'Art Basel Tea Ceremony.' Orlando Bloom is hosting that one, because we are not fucking around here." www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Relatedly, if you're in academia and read an essay or article or book by a scholar that really impresses you, consider sending them an email to let them know. I think this is especially important to do for younger scholars, who may not have many other ways of getting positive feedback on their work