Also, NYC public school teacher 🧡🧡🧡

Sound the alarms! New Charles Ray at Matthew Marks in New York. Three sculptures, one 'Two dead guys' (2023). May 1. matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/ch…

Roberta Smith: 'Critics need to be more flexible than artists. You have to be open to being changed and pushed into new directions by art.' nytimes.com/2024/04/11/ins…

Writers: Apply!

A really excellent profile of Donna Dennis, by Walker Mimms. Dennis’s current outing at O’Flaherty’s is one of the best shows in town right now. nytimes.com/2024/04/09/art…

Red alert! Two delectable, ultra-rare Florine Stettheimers are up for auction, Brian Boucher reports. Would anyone like to go half on one with me? I will pay in 'sweat equity,' providing weekly lectures on Stettheimer forever. You'll love it. news.artnet.com/market/paintin…

This really is how the art world works. Beautiful and awful essay

'There are nine kinds of foie gras on offer, and five pâtés en croûte, including one known as Sleeping Beauty’s Pillow, which involves a panoply of meats . . . and is considered by connoisseurs to be 'charcuterie’s holy grail.' ' newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Luckiest Fan Ever: This Metropolitan Opera Audience Member Just Caught A Foul Cello clickhole.com/luckiest-fan-e…

80,000 canapés, 75,000 stems of flowers, a €15 Salvador Dalí negroni: TEFAF Maastricht by the numbers news.artnet.com/market/tefaf-m…

I reviewed the Rijksmuseum's blockbuster for Frans Hals, the unholy member of the Dutch Golden Age trinity, for Artnet News. news.artnet.com/art-world/fran…

Farewell to Marian Zazeela (1940-2024), who was a light artist, calligrapher, musician and know especially for her work with her husband, the legendary minimalist composter La Monte Young. Her own works were dizzying, delicate and detailed, almost as if imprints of her dreams.

Scoop: ‘It Was Her Life’: Major Miami Collection Heads to Auction, Following Founder’s Death news.artnet.com/market/de-la-c…