Don’t miss my upcoming coffee table book Idiots Wearing Sunglasses at Art Fairs, and, umm, if you’re in it, soz. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter.Oh, joy, another art fair. Last week’s Frieze Los Angeles was an absolute laugh riot, if you’re into the kind of humor that...
Idiot tourist defaces Colosseum. Again. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter.In a summer devastated by increasingly biblical levels of natural disasters from fires and floods to earthquakes and hurricanes, all exacerbated—if not wrought—by human malfeasance, we are...
The first laptops, in menacing, institutional-IBM beige. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter.Okay folks, let’s play a little game: guess which part, if any, of this essay was derived from ChatGPT, and which was written by me. I personally don’t see what all the artificial...
Ronnie Wood and Bernie Chase attend a press conference for Wood's show, "Faces,Time And Places" in London. Photo: D Dipasupil / FilmMagic.Bernie Chase is an unorthodox, unconventional art-world inhabitant. To put it mildly. At 65, he dresses as age-inappropriately as...
Guillaume Bijl and me at Art Basel Unlimited. Tthis guy is nuts—in the best possible way, and I love him and his art. Photo courtesy of Kenny Schachter.I started my Swiss sojourn two weeks ago in Zurich for a series of talks on, you guessed it, NFTs: their marketplace...
Exploring the role of emerging technologies at NFT art day ZRT As the digital renaissance continues to reshape the art world, the annual NFT ART DAY ZRH conference returns to Zurich for its second edition to delve deeper into the burgeoning realm of NFTs, Web3, and...
POP PRINCIPLE: THE NFT ART GAME Inspired by the art world’s knee-jerk hostility to crypto art, POP PRINCIPLE is a battle that pits key names in the traditional arts scene against pioneers in the digital realm to shed light on the rapid evolution of the creative...
Kenny Schachter, Mike Winkelmann ("Beeple") (2023). Photo courtesy of Kenny SchachterKenny Schachter has had, shall we say, a challenging relationship with the art establishment. An artist (and Artnet News columnist) operating at the edge of new media, Schachter has...
Let’s get this party started! A new form of live art/entertainment/collectible: the NFT-J, making it rain money in real time. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter.Imagine the scene in the 1986 film Caravaggio, the historical drama directed by the brilliant artist Derek Jarman,...
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