But he read for barely ten minutes, then gave it up, falling half asleep on the sofa.

Jack Hanley Gallery couldn't go on forever, but this closing stings... he operated in the margins that were a subtle but celebratory embrace of failure. It was a great place. He's a real one!

Eight years ago today…

It happens

Big.

The hallyu is flowing in New York right now: – Park Seo-Bo at White Cube – Ha Chong-Hyun at Tina Kim – Hyun-Sook Song at Sprüth news.artnet.com/art-world-arch…

Come through!

.Dan Rodricks, At Large raises a good question here: why doesn't the big new African-American History and Culture Museum in Washington have a place where school kids can eat their bag lunches?

Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.

Top 10 of 2024 16miles.com/2025/01/top-10…

Cameron Rowland, '1st Defense NFPA 1977, 2011,' 2016. Rental to the Museum of Modern Art. "Inmates working for CALPIA produce orange Nomex fire suits for the state's 4300 inmate wildland firefighters." moma.org/collection/wor…

The rise and fall of Chicago art dealer Kavi Gupta news.artnet.com/art-world/kavi…

Will the art world go post-woke in 2025? Ben Davis's latest. news.artnet.com/art-world-arch…

Scoop: Chelsea Building Filled With Galleries, Artist Studios Could Sell for $170 Million news.artnet.com/market/west-ch… (thanks Brian Boucher™️ !)

Fire Erupts in Tribeca, Damaging Two Galleries news.artnet.com/art-world/fire… Annie Armstrong reports from the scene

today it would be too much to ask our newspaper columnists and substack warriors to string together sentences with the same naturalness, provisional authority, and suasion as this. the conjectures of the present popular now lack for such coherence and verve, historical fluency

Whatever honors your admirers decree for you in Rome, your elation, your triumph will not last.