They have our eyeballs, attention, and money—but that’s not enough. Now the techno-feudal overlords are coming for our art! Bezos’s been in for sometime, and now Zuckerberg’s thrown in his (bowler) hat. Could Musk be next? Photo courtesy Kenny Schachter.A new breed of...
Art Basel Booth Bonanza!!! OUR (steeply discounted, because too many dealers don’t want to go, who can blame them, I sure don’t) PRICES ARE INSAAAAAAANE!!!!!!! Google old Crazy Eddy TV adverts and it will make sense to you! Photo by Kenny SchachterOn the heels of the...
Just back from the preposterous Portland ICE invasion on the basis that it’s a hotbed of terroristic activity, now donning my frog costume protesting the onslaught of negative media that flies in the face of the robust, thriving community of artists, dealers, and...
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My failing car was replaced by a faltering truck. I think it suits me, though, and it would be useful in the mean, potholed streets of NYC.September 29: An auspicious start, broken down beside the highway, beginning my version of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. I rented the...
“People have tried to beat me up in restaurants. I’ve had to call the FBI. Lawsuits. But I don’t write to hurt. I write because someone has to tell the truth. The art world is addicted to lying. It lies to survive.” Kenny Schachter holds a distinct aura that we just...
David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) is displayed at Christie's in New York November 15, 2018. Photo by Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images.Trump’s escalating, multi-billion-dollar legal onslaughts against the likes of The Wall Street Journal, New...
Artists and gallery employees are invariably the first (and last) to get screwed and have been since… forever. Bankruptcy clawback provisions are yet another situation where what’s bad can get even worse, when the artists and staff are sued instead of the dealer!...
The headlines blare: "Trump and Conservatives Get the PBS (home to Sesame Street) and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades." Kermit and Miss Piggy, et al., kicked to the curb. Photo courtesy Kenny SchachterRobert Armstrong coined the acronym Taco (Trump Always Chickens...
Emily Rales and Mitch Rales attend National Arts Awards at Cipriani 42nd St on October 18, 2010 in New York City. Photo: Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images.As the dollar sinks to its lowest levels since the Nixon administration in 1973, and word of the...
The hottest commodity at Art Basel in 2025 was neither canvas nor bronze, but rather these idiotic collectibles that have netted Pop Mart's founder untold billions. The dolls are described as naughty little monsters, which brings a certain Artnet writer to mind, but I...
Left, Paul Thek Untitled, 1969-70 and right, Peter Hujar, Paul Thek (IV), 1975(Image credit: Left, © Estate of Paul Thek. Courtesy of Pace Gallery, Galerie Buchholz, Mai 36 Galerie, and the Watermill Center, NY. Photo: Eva Herzog. Right, © 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive...
Kenny Schachter has just curated a new show of Paul Thek’s work at Thomas Dane Gallery, in collaboration with Jonathan Anderson “I haven’t slept in three days – I’m like 27 if not for the hair,” says Kenny Schachter. Eight coffees in, and seemingly unfazed by the...
Kenny Schachter is an artist, writer, and lecturer based in New York whose writings and opinions on art are far-reaching, vigorously forthright, and consistently indiscrete. Never far from his line of thought are the lessons he derives from his heroes, and among...
After last week’s grim auction performance, Giacomettis will not only be emaciated; they may start to wilt! All photos courtesy Kenny SchachterIn 1977, a cardigan-clad President Jimmy Carter gave a fireside chat (how sweet, in retrospect) admonishing Americans to...
Kenny Schachter is not your typical art world professional — and he doesn’t claim to be. A self-taught curator, artist, and writer based in New York, Schachter has spent over three decades challenging the boundaries between art, technology, and commerce with a blend...
The Living Room “Art needs to be lived with,” says Kenny Schachter. “Every day, something gets moved around.” The works on the walls are his, other than the green painting above the blue couch by his son, Adrian. The center sofa is Ole Wanscher, the yellow sofa is...
Kenny Schachter , Reigning vice of social media (cropped Hogarth) 1 , 2025 , Robotically rendered to oil on canvas , 28 by 46.5 in. (KSC009) © Kenny Schachter. Photo by Cary Whittier. Courtesy of the artist and Jupiter Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL When you’re a young...
Kenny Schachter has always existed at the intersection of art, technology, and critique. With his latest exhibition, Art in the Age of Robotic Reproduction, now on view at Jupiter gallery in New York’s Lower East Side, the boundary-blurring provocateur engages in a...
Kenny Schachter, Art in the age..., 2025. Photography by Cary Whittier. Image courtesy of the artist and Jupiter.Kenny Schachter’s latest show at Jupiter on NYC’s Lower East Side is a nod to Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical...
In a breathtaking tour de force of meta-artistic intervention, Kenny Schachter's "Art in the Age of Robotic Reproduction" emerges as nothing short of a revolutionary epistemic challenge to the very ontological foundations of contemporary art production. What appears,...
Kenny Schachter, Art in the age..., 2025. Photography by Cary Whittier. Image courtesy of the artist and Jupiter.In Kenny Schachter's show at Jupiter gallery on the Lower East Side, I was struck by a sense memory—a visceral jolt of déjà vu. It was the feeling I had in...
The other Kenny, you know who, that I am constantly getting mistaken for (due to the fact we share the first nine letters of our names), was kind enough to provide the ammo for this painting, by way of his personalized alphabet. Image courtesy of Inbal SafdieOpen a...
It’s a bright and sunny day in the Engadin valley when we meet Kenny Schachter at Villa Flor in S-chanf. Uncompromisingly outspoken, Kenny has made more than a handful of enemies in the multi-billion-dollar dream factory that is the contemporary art market. Like a...
The old mountain goat, me, making do without electricity or a bathroom, contemplating the state of the art world from an isolated farming cabin in the SwissThe scope of loss in California is as tragic as it is unthinkable. I’m so sorry for what has happened, what...
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