“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...
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...
In his first lecture since suffering spinal cord surgery, this talk pinpoints the parallels between recovering from life changing injury and forging a career in a post-gallery art world. The University of Coimbra, Department of Art, April 30th, 2024
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...
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...
Kenny Schachter returns to Galerie Nagel Draxler in Cologne with his second solo exhibition, Phone Face, running from August 31 to October 25, 2024. Known for his critical engagement with contemporary culture, Schachter uses this exhibit to explore the ways in which...
Kenny Schachter, Kenny can’t paint, into the corner you should be ashamed of yourselfKenny Schachter is a polymath of sorts with a multitude of interests and skills that have guided him in the arts. As a collector, curator, artist, lecturer, and writer, he has used...
In his first lecture since suffering spinal cord surgery, this talk pinpoints the parallels between recovering from life changing injury and forging a career in a post-gallery art world. The University of Coimbra, Department of Art, April 30th, 2024
Kenny Schachter is an artist, curator, art dealer, and critic from New York City. This episode turned out to be a special one for me. There is so much information in Kenny's head that after this hour-long conversation, I felt like I had only scratched the surface....
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Meet Kenny Schachter. Kenny Schachter is many things in the art world – critic, artist, dealer, you name it. But he would tell you first he's an outsider. Published: August 2, 2023Show: Ready, Go! | Season 1 | Episode 11Host: Anthony RondinoneDuration: 57 min.*** You...
Kenny Schachter is an artist, critic, writer, and art dealer. He has decades of experience in the art world and his outlook and experience are second to none. He has written critical articles for many prestigious publications, done podcasts, interviews, art shows, and...
Published: June 26, 2023Show: What Matters | Season 1 | Episode 6Host: Julio FelixDuration: 53 min*** You can also listen on Apple podcast
Kenny Schachter is many things in the art world - critic, artist, dealer, you name it. But he would tell you first he's an outsider. Is he though? In this episode, Anna and Kenny connect by feeling like an outsider in the art world. Published: June 20, 2023Show: Kenny...
With crypto in a state of turbulent flux, a demographic of nonfungible token (NFT) detractors in the fine art world might feel trigger-happy to, at last, declare the industry down for the count. Meanwhile, artist, critic, dealer, educator and outspoken NFT proponent...
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...
Funny AI transcription of Interview with Kenny Schachter. May 2023. Image courtesy of Clare Gemima. Producing critical text for Artnet, (also known as mocking some new affluent endeavor of the art-rich) Kenny Schachter energetically provides more clues to his work...
Kenny Schachter shares a glimpse of his fascinating mind. He is an artist, curator, lecturer in art history, digital art, and art and economics; and writer of a notorious column at artnet.com, with a book on NFTs coming out in November. Kenny's exhibition Slow Food is...
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...
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Kenny Schachter @kennyschachter is an art world hybrid--artist, critic, journalist, curator, dealer, NFT expert... We focus specifically on his video work for much of this conversation, as we'll showcase a few of the hundreds he's made over the years this Friday...
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...
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
Kenny Schachter. Money Money Money, 2021>American artist Kenny Schachter (1961-), currently based in New York, has been creating artworks, organizing exhibitions in museums and galleries, and teaching at universities for more than 30 years. Art lawyer Yayoi Shionoiri...
Es Vedrà is a monumental rock formation in Ibiza said to radiate healing powers and a sense of tranquility. I visited the Spanish island retreat in July to attend an exhibition by the painter Eva Beresin who I discovered on Instagram three years ago, and who has...
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
«Teresa» by Kenny Schachter at Art Basel. | © Raphael RauchWhy are you putting Mother Teresa in the spotlight? Kenny Schachter*: I have been involved with digital art for 30 years. Crypto art enables me to sell my art. Otherwise, I'm very critical of crypto art. It's...
Published: April 20, 2022Show: Time Sensitive | Season 5 | Episode 59Hosts: Spencer Bailey and Andrew ZuckermanDuration: 1:30:00 Kenny Schachter has an insatiable appetite for all things art. The polymathic art dealer, curator, teacher, writer, critic, collector, and...
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...
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...
Hosted by Kenconsumer and originally broadcast live on www.keithfem.com, Arbitrarily Deterministic focuses on the intersection between art, technology and popular culture and the people who help blur those lines. The first episode has long time art market veteran,...
The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the dollars). Beneath the surface is a tangled web of dealers, curators, auction houses, speculators — and, of course,...
Such tech will be hard to avoid in Miami this week as artists and brands that were relatively unknown in 2019 make their presence felt. Within the fair, the curator-dealer turned non-fungible token (NFT) artist Kenny Schachter has joined forces with Galerie Nagel...
Dealer (1999)“Art world gadfly” is the phrase I use in my syllabus to describe Kenny Schachter (American, b. 1961, Queens, New York). His commentaries in Artnet News and other journals are required reading, and it is for his perspective on contemporary art and its...
Death be not proud (it is bound to happen soon er or later) Video still © Kenny SchachterGuess the riddle! He is a direct, simple, and honest person – sometimes harsh – but infinitely enjoyable. Although he doesn't take himself too seriously, he is deathly serious...
Avery Andon sits down with Art Journalist, Dealer and Impresario Kenny Schachter to discuss the state of the art world during the COVID-19 pandemic and predictions for the future! Also available on:
IT IS RAINING ON THE MORNING OF MAY 3, nasty, chilly showers that add a smell of damp to the scant charms of the shabby-genteel Gramercy Park Hotel. The third annual Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair will officially open here at 6, and by noon Kenny...
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