Artnet Makes Significant Layoffs Following Consolidation with Artsy Artnet, a prominently online marketplace, made significant layoffs after it was consolidated with its competitor Artsy.

Thinking of my friends and colleagues on what must be a tough day. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Local Resort Reportedly Pays $45 M. for Rauschenberg’s Famed Captiva Island Property The South Seas resort reportedly paid $45 million for Robert Rauschenberg's 22-acre property on Captiva Island, Florida.

This seems a pity. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

California’s High Desert Is Rich With Natural and Artistic Beauty—All Amplified by a Budding Art Fair: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

“Art Collector and ‘Galerie’ Magazine Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Jeffrey Epstein in Emails: ‘There Is No One Else Like You’”: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

An Orientalist Painting Central to the Penn Museum’s History To Be Offered for $4 M. at Bonhams The Penn Museum's purchase of Osman Hamdi Bey's painting curried favor with the artist-administrator in facilitating U Penn's archaeological digs.

This sale may be within bounds set by professional organizations, but experts are unhappy about it. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Dealers at TEFAF Maastricht Report Robust Sales, Offering Works Ranging from Two Inches to Room-Size A sprawling Neapolitan crèche, a gigantic sleigh, and two-inch-high enameled gold paintings all dazzle at the latest edition of TEFAF Maastricht.

Dealers are selling some amazing things at TEFAF Maastricht, like a two-inch-high enameled gold *book page*, for fuck’s sake www.artnews.com/artnews/news...

Are you ready to rumble, by which I mean spend millions at TEFAF? www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Oh my god

Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas President Donald Trump touted gold curtains he selected for the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony shortly as Americans die in the Iran war.

Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas

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In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails Tod Lippy has hired an LED truck that will troll the Los Angeles art world with emails between art-world luminaries and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’ The aisles were packed with collectors, museum trustees and, of course, actors at the latest edition of the Frieze Los Angeles fair.

Frieze LA VIP day report: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years The DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years amid substantial financial challenges at its parent university, which has initiated layoffs.

Chicago’s DePaul University will shutter its art museum, it announced moments ago. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre, left her post amid strikes, a heist, leaks, and internal turmoil.

Breaking on ARTnews: Louvre director resigns. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

🎶Chicago! Fuck yeah! 🎵

Chicago Just Named A Snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’— Here Are The Other Winners The city received a record number of entries and votes for its annual snowplow-naming contest. The Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the six winners Monday.

It's a small win, but still... this fills me with civic pride.

Please shoot me.

A photo shows a woman underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of cars

A photo shows a man underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of cars largely covered with red algae

“I Swam To See an Underwater Art Project Off Miami Beach That Imagines a Better Aquatic World.” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Absolutely tremendous movie. I watched it again recently and does it ever hold up.

Cam Girl Has Ash On Forehead

This is funny to me every year. theonion.com/cam-girl-has...

Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat A co-founder and former chief product officer at startup Masterworks is threatening to sue over wrongful termination. The company says he resigned.

When “you can’t fire me—I quit!” looks more like “I didn’t quit—you fired me!” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Another.

After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...

Sickening.
#ICEOUT #MN
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Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February.

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It’s almost as though our government were run by a secret cabal of sex traffickers.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

My doctor, who is very watchful about my blood sugar, recently asked me if I have carb cravings. I realized that I didn’t know there was any other way to experience the world.

As you may have heard, Trump bragged about a supposed weapon used in Venezuela that he claims to have dubbed the Discombobulator.

“Sir, is there any chance the Discombobulator is on now?” asks Colbert. “I would not describe your recent behavior as, uh, ‘combobulated.’”