Kenny Schachter’s The Hoarder IV: Now Or Never sale will happen with Sotheby’s New York from December 12-20, 2022.Can you talk about the concept of Hoarder IV (already the fourth edition!) your sale at Sotheby’s—how did the idea get hatched? I lived in London for 15...
From my ongoing series “Idiots Wearing Sunglasses at Art Fairs.” Okay, so they’re not all idiots; but an affectation is an affectation, and looking at art like that is asinine even if your name is Pharrell. Photos courtesy of Kenny Schachter.“The Nausea has not left...
You’ve probably seen a lot of articles about the metaverse, but how many poems have you read on the matter? As the art world ponders the future of the metaverse, NFT evangelist Kenny Schachter charts the line from the 19th-century’s stereoscopes to tomorrow’s VR...
While the artist, art dealer, collector and journalist Kenny Schachter is known for his highly opinionated – and sometimes painfully honest – commentaries and columns about the art world, we have come to know him as a die-hard petrolhead and car buff since we first...
Credit: Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MoCDA) in Decentraland, 2022. Courtesy of MoCDAThe Web3 fantasy of an art market shorn of mediators is proving a mirage. With the pandemic compressing our experience of art into a digital plane, NFT marketplaces upended the...
CONFLICT & CRYPTOCURRENCY Russia’s invasion of ukraine is being described as the largest military attack in europe since world war II. it’s also being called the world’s first crypto war (first by the washington post) as both countries are using cryptocurrency to...
Work by Mieke Marple. Courtesy of the artist.By nature I am not a political animal—the art world is treacherous enough. Sure, I did take a couple of jabs at the buffoon formerly known as our president, but recent events in Ukraine have led me to pursue a different...
Devon Dikeou, “WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?”: Unsafe At Any Speed, 1991 Ongoing, 18 x 24 inchesRecently opened exhibition “Unsafe At Any Speed,” curated by omnipresent artist, writer, curator, and dealer, Kenny Schachter, is a return not only to his curatorial New...
Photo: Kenny SchachterThe new show is called Metadada, a play on the word metadata. What can visitors expect? I think for me the show is really a snapshot and an analysis of NFTs, of technology and art and the convergence of all of these fields. In a way it’s an...
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