Trump’s promised review of Smithsonian exhibitions was too much for these historians. So they pushed back using good old-fashioned email lists. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“If you never thought you would be able to hang my effigy in your home,” said Cattelan, “that makes two of us.” news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...

Museums face threats on seemingly every front. Read more in my latest dispatch for artnet. news.artnet.com/art-world/mu...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

“Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

What a surprise

Devastating new report on cultural losses in Gaza from @penamerica.bsky.social. My summary for artnet: news.artnet.com/art-world/ga...

With the VAT on art going from the EU's highest to the common market's lowest, is Italy's art market set to boom? Here's my latest in Cultured on that very subject. www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

“Cancel culture has finally not gone nearly far enough” –the Right

Analysis | To get himself back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel must call for the execution of homeless people.

Ugh news.artnet.com/art-world/fl...

Join us at 3 Eastern! info.artlogic.net/connect-2025

I mean, how bad can slavery *really* have been, after all? Do we *really* need to keep talking about it? news.artnet.com/art-world/tr...

"I never stood with Bibi."

Anyone else going to see Wet Leg in Central Park on Wednesday?

Killing dangerous right wing activists who tried to delegitimize others’ existence bad, killing homeless people good

Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.

Some (probably banal but heartfelt) notes on the Gaza Biennale, a powerful show now open at Recess, in Brooklyn. news.artnet.com/art-world/ga...

Charlie Kirk says this was worth it

Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: dying to preserve the Second Amendment. www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

Listen up, art lovers! news.artnet.com/art-world/ch...

Is it irrational to feel connected to this company just because Ben Cohen gave a fine speech at my college graduation? (The theme, as I recall: you can do good for others even as you do well for yourself.) Well, I do!

Love a happy ending! Woodmere museum got its IMLS grant restored after suing the Trump administration: news.artnet.com/art-world/wo...

You asked for it and you got it: More News About Nazis™️! news.artnet.com/art-world/na...

Bill Pulte ended up getting his own dad busted.

Check out my report on the inaugural New York outing of the Open Invitational art fair, hosting nine disability studios. I bought one art; I wore another. news.artnet.com/market/open-...

DID YOU SCREW UP TODAY? DID IT GO OUT TO ENTIRE EMAIL LIST?

Development! news.artnet.com/art-world/na...

Washington's loss is Baltimore's gain when it comes to Amy Sherald's retrospective. news.artnet.com/art-world/am...

Update to this wild tale: Nazis arrested, will be charged. news.artnet.com/art-world/na...

I never heard a singer so obsessed with death as Rick Froberg (RIP). Just my little contribution to the did-he-or-didn’t-he discourse. Dude even had a band called Obits, for fuck’s sake.

“It was you—you’re the one who died” youtu.be/RzlZVDgpHxU?...

Someone call Big Balls

Fucking Nazis, man. news.artnet.com/art-world/na...

The Times. The Onion. And my humble contribution to the discourse.

A damn fine scoop by Eileen Kinsella for Artnet! news.artnet.com/market/nada-...

Anybody manage to get Shudder to Think tickets?

Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

There are so many Chinese people living around the world and I really want people to be more specific in describing what happened to @katiehonan.bsky.social because "a practice in Mainland China of giving bribes to a reporter for positive press" and "Chinese culture" do not mean the same thing!

Usually in my lectures I have to at some point mention that corruption is more subtle than “bag full of money”, but now I will have to qualify that with “usually”.

Andy Warhol, The Last Supper (Wise Potato Chips), 1986

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close Los Angeles branch after seven years news.artnet.com/market/tanya...

The man is utterly deranged

“My Source News Opinion World?” Did they just throw darts at a board with media-related words on it?

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked