Daniel Cassady
@DanielCassady
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reporter for @artnews. formerly @forbes and @nypost. shoe leather and racquet string. opines and typos, mine. next round, yours. open to mistakes.
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Joined September 2009
The more I report on the #Louvre heist, the more I realize life imitates art imitates life: the museum was robbed in the same way in 1976—same window, same kind of loot. Hollywood’s reboot era has hit the Paris underworld. Soon on Apple TV: Tom Holland in The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Just out on the ArtTactic Podcast: Our @adamgreenart speaks with @DanielCassady (@artnews) about the mood at the Armory Show, how galleries and collectors are adjusting in today’s market, and what it all signals for the fall season. 🎧 Listen here:
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In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with Daniel Cassady , art business reporter for Artnews, about the mood at the Armory Sh...
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Had no idea Trump was a spelunker. No one is better at caving.
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Also, Matt Gaetz and Stephen Fry to Star in off Broadway production of Importance of Being Ernest.
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The satirical news site intends to turn Infowars into a parody of itself. But the court overseeing the bankruptcy put a hold on the sale pending a hearing next week.
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Maverick -> Star Wars -> Christian Schools -> Trump. I can see it. It's wild, but I can see it.
The Popular Success of Top Gun: Maverick After the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and rioting in 2020, it seemed to many in the intelligentsia that “culturally relevant” films needed to directly address DEI or systemic race issues to find wide appeal. Top
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I don’t think this is accurate. We live in a backsliding democracy, but one that can still be defended through elections and legal process. Poland was far further along the authoritarian track than the US today, yet its voters ousted the ruling party last year
"We live in an autocracy now. Just how repressive and lawless of one remains to be seen." https://t.co/CPAAiUYsvb
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“…Perhaps we needed a shock jock like him to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center.”
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This is Tina Brown, nailing it: “But more than any of this, Trump’s victory is a big fat raspberry to democratic orthodoxies, woke dogma, and identity politics. He is right to divine that America is sick to death of all of it…
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Art Basel and UBS Just Released a Survey of High Net Worth Art Collectors, What Does it Mean? https://t.co/cMvs4ywGHe
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A deep dive into the report shows that attitudes among the wealthy about how and what to collect have changed in the last 18 months.
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If there’s one living environment that needed pretty tight regulating, it would be Mars.
Unless Trump wins and we get rid of the mountain of smothering regulations (that have nothing to do with safety!), humanity will never reach Mars. This is existential.
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(More than) slightly painful facts coming Gioia this evening. 62% of adults didn’t read a single work of fiction last year. Is this the end of the novel’s influence or did I miss the death rattle?
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It's worse than you think
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Meet the Latest Addition to the Art World: The Artist’s Agent
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Does the introduction of agents into the artist-gallery relationship signal the natural evolution in the art world or the invasion of the middle men?
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Fresh off the press (and soon to be in print in the forthcoming issue of Art in America): my profile of Sotheby’s chief executive Charles Stewart.
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Sotheby's CEO Charles F. Stewart aims to remake the auction house, particularly with an emphasis on the sale of luxury items.
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Elon Musk's free speech tweet has just been owned into next week by Armando Iannucci https://t.co/mCnbrGoDaf
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Elon Musk's bid to cast himself as a protectorate of free speech has gone up in flames following a timely intervention.
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Banksy's London Animal Artworks, Ranked. Feel free to throw your two cents in. Or all 25.
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With street artist Banksy's nine-day run through London seemingly over, ARTnews ranked each of his animal artworks.
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The deal, valued at $1 billion, will see ADQ purchasing newly issued shares of the auction house. Patrick Drahi, the current majority owner of Sotheby’s, will also invest additional capital. The exact breakdown of the investment was not disclosed. Story to come.
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ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund, investment, and holding company, has entered into “a definitive agreement” to acquire a minority interest in Sotheby’s. The deal will be closed by the end of the year, Sotheby's says.
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Couldn’t make it to Aspen for this year’s Art Week? Have a read and subdue your fomo. No oxygen tank needed.
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From performances to artist talks and nature walks, Aspen ArtWeek is the antithesis of Miami Art Week
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