Zachary Small
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📌 The Treasury Department relied on fake numbers when looking at financial crimes in the art market. But they weren't the only ones. 🧵 on the craziest discovery of my career .
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The auction that was supposed to be an art world coming-out party for NFTs instead exposed the instability at the heart of the crypto world.
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Story time:. Back in 2021, one of the most legendary wallets in the space was an account named fartlord.eth. Massive collection. Ridiculous floor sweeps. The wallet was full of really IYKYK top-notch fine art (remember Folia?) and also ridiculous degen PFP rugs, with no.
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Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.
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Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.
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The auction houses performed lower than their low estimates this season, but still cleared the $1B sales mark. Fear is growing that the industry might be shrinking.
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Performing below their low estimates, the auction houses bet on a “flight to quality” but found little interest from bidders on top lots.
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A painting by Lucio Fontana that had sold for nearly $14 million at Christie’s in 2017 (or $17.4 million with inflation) returned to the auction house on Monday evening. It sold for just $7.5 million, including fees.
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There was little excited bidding on the art collection of the Riggio family, who built their fortune on the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain — a caution flag for the art market.
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NEW: Trump nominates Mary Anne Carter as head of NEA. She had previously served as the agency's chair during the first admin.
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The president nominated Mary Anne Carter to lead the National Endowment for the Arts, which his budget calls for eliminating and which has been withdrawing grants from arts groups.
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RT @GenePark: My interview with Expedition 33's team:. - This is lead writer Jennifer Svedburg-Yen's debut as a writer. She is a former pri….
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NEW: Frieze art fair has finally announced a buyer.
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The deal would bring seven art fairs under a new private company founded by the entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel, former chief executive of Frieze’s owner, Endeavor.
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A darkness that once simmered below the surface of his paintings was now starting to seep through the canvas. On Salman Toor's new paintings — his largest exhibition to date.
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As Salman Toor’s work has become more politically conflicted and emotionally raw, he finds himself wondering, “What am I doing here in America?”
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We analyzed the relationship between museums and mega-galleries. Of 350 exhibitions since 2019, nearly 25 percent went to artists represented by just 11 of the biggest galleries in the world.
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Hauser & Wirth artists have major exhibitions everywhere you look, as a new analysis shows the rising influence of powerful art galleries on the city’s top museums.
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NEW: Nintendo announces Switch 2 will release June 5 with a Mario Kart launch title allowing you to drive anywhere. Updates to come.
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The company said Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza would be part of the early game lineup, also sharing details on the console’s technical upgrades.
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Trump's executive order faulted a Smithsonian show for promoting "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a position widely held by scientists. We looked at the history behind that position and the actual show.
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His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a widely held position in the scientific community.
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SCOOP: MoMA has announced internally that its next director is Christophe Cherix, currently chief curator of drawings and prints.
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution.
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NOW: The Guggenheim cut 20 employees today. The union has filed a grievance because they were not given advanced notice. Senior leaders won't be taking any pay cuts.
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The museum has suffered from rising costs and lower attendance. The cuts followed those at the Brooklyn Museum, which trimmed 10 percent of its staff this month.
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After competition, Christie's has secured the $250M Riggio art collection. The top lot, a Mondrian painting, could break a record.
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Louise Riggio is downsizing her Manhattan apartment, which means selling more than 30 works by artists including Mondrian, Magritte and Picasso.
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Ms. Schiff helped advance the field of advising from the vanity project of bored socialites into a respected profession, more akin to an asset management firm. Then her clients realized she stole millions. Our story on her path toward repenting.
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BREAKING: Daniel Sikkema is charged by US officials in murder-for-hire plot that led to husband's death.
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Federal officials said Daniel Sikkema was part of a murder-for-hire conspiracy that resulted in the stabbing death of the art dealer Brent Sikkema. His lawyer denied the charges.
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Cuts at the Brooklyn Museum are larger than first rumored — staff layoffs of +10%, reduced exhibitions and events — to help offset a $10M deficit. Our @nytimes story.
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The museum, which faces a projected $10 million deficit, said it planned to cut more than a tenth of its employees and mount fewer exhibitions.
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RT @nytimesarts: Twenty-five years after the release of The Sims, a virtual dollhouse and a sandbox for the American Dream, players are con….
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As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream.
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For the 25th anniversary of The Sims, I spoke to the game's creator Will Wright about gods and ants.
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As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream.
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