‘I Wanted to Be a Treasure Hunter’: Dealer Bernie Chase Tells All to Kenny Schachter About a Career Selling Cars, Jewelry, Art, and… Other Substances
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...
The Ledge: Kenny Schachter
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...
What Matters: Kenny Schachter
Published: June 26, 2023Show: What Matters | Season 1 | Episode 6Host: Julio FelixDuration: 53 min*** You can also listen on Apple podcast
Kenny Schachter “Outsiders”
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...
Kenny Schachter Needed New Art Like a Hole in the Head at Art Basel, But Dug Up Plenty of Priceless Intel Instead
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...
Slow Food: Kenny Schachter reflects on blockchain art’s past, present and future
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...
Kenny Schachter on uniting the traditional and digital art worlds ahead of NFT ART DAY ZRH
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...
Kenny Schachter fossilizes friends, fiends and foes in Slow Food, his solo-show at NFT Gallery in New York
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 in conversation with Hazel Dooney
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...
Kenny Schachter Spills the Tea on New York’s Spooky Spring Auctions (Including the Art Consigned by His Mother-in-Law)
This is a reenactment of the way my mother-in-law installed her Alex Katz before I sold it nearly two decades ago to Michael Black on behalf of his client, Gerald Fineberg. Courtesy of Kenny Schachter.Last week, for the first time in nine years, I disengaged myself...
Traditional artists and digital media pioneers face off in Kenny Schachter’s NFT Art Game
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’s New NFT Game Is an Art-World Battle Royale That Pits Traditional Artists Against Digital Creators
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...
Philosophy with Kenny Schachter
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Airmail: Kenny Schachter
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Kenny Schachter Pays a Mind-Bending Visit to Beeple’s New High-Tech Art Compound (Getting in Plenty of Trouble Along the Way)
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,...
The Tickle Magazine Feature
The Tickle | Issue #79 | February 3, 2023 The Tickle is created and edited by Johnny Dean Mann ( @guyswily ) & Jess Britton ( @heyghostshoes ) Click here to read full issue directly on the objkt website
Tea with SG
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: The Hoarder IV
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...
Sunglass Idiots! Slipper Thieves! Lawsuits! Kenny Schachter Braved the Existential Vortex of Art Basel Miami Beach to Get the Goods
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...
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 4
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 3
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
Why “NFTism” is life itself: Interview with Kenny Schachter
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...
Hit the Road. Kenny Schachter: Holiday from Hell
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...
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 2
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 1
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
Art Without Substance book
The Meta-Future — A poem about the history of the metaverse
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...
Art Basel: Why Kenny Schachter criticizes Mother Teresa?
«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...
Kenny Schachter on Taking the Art World to Task
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...
This art & cars exhibition in New York is unsafe at any speed
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...
Arranging Tangerines Podcast Episode 8
The Paradox of NFT Curation
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...
The world’s first crypto war and NFT fundraising, designboom hears from Kenny Schachter
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...
Kenny Schachter on How the NFT Community Is Organizing to Raise Funds for Ukraine in Record Time
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...
Kenny Schachter & Morton St Partners: Unsafe At Any Speed
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...
Kenny Schachter: “The art world is a fucked-up place”
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...
Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast
Arbitrarily Deterministic Podcast: Featuring Kenny Schachter
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 Rules Don’t Apply To Me Syndrome
Kenny Schachter Wades Through the Booze-Soaked NFT Mecca of Miami Beach—and Wishes He Could Escape to the Metaverse
Adam Lindeman as Chromie Squiggle Remember last month when I wrote that I was done writing for a while? Well, I lied (if you can’t contradict yourself…). You didn’t think I’d actually give up this platform, did you? If you hadn’t heard, I returned to Miami Basel this...
Freakonomics: “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.” (Ep. 484)
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,...
NBC Nightly News: Digital art dominating Miami’s famous Art Basel
Art Basel Miami Beach opens in a younger, richer, techier city
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...
R.I.P. Kenny Schachter, Lousy Art Salesman and O.K. Market Journalist, Who Went Down Bringing You This New York Auction Recap
Kenny Schachter in the process of shedding his skin as a journalist. Photo: www.KennySchachter.artThis is a twist on Arthur Miller, where the salesman in fact comes to terms with his new identity and the concomitant change effectuated by it. In other words, dear...
Who Is Behind Art Forger Wolfgang Beltracchi’s New Crypto Project? Kenny Schachter Unmasks the Top NFT Creator in His First-Ever Interview
Some of the Salvator Mundi NFTs from Wolfgang Baltracchi's new NFT collection "The Greats."In January 2021, a long-germinating NFT project titled Hashmasks officially launched. The series of 16,384 unique collectible NFTs was the first meaningful follow-up...
Kenny Schachter Surveys the Highs and Lows of Art Basel and Scolds Art Snobs for Dismissing NFTs (Which He’s Selling a Lot of, by the Way)
Creative destruction: blowing up the bridge between old and new—the traditional art world and the world of NFTism.The art world knows one word, above all others, and that is “no.” No, you can’t buy this (the illusive waiting list); no, you can’t do that, or say… just...
Art World Gadfly: An Appreciation of the Art, Writing, and Life of Kenny Schachter
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...
Kenny Schachter Gets Clued Into an Ultra-Secret $130 Million Frida Kahlo Auction and Wades Through the NFT Swamp
It’s raining men, and money in Frida’s case.Before I resume with more of the crypto content you’ve come to expect from me of late (apologies in advance), here’s some juicy meatspace fodder to chew on. Author Luis-Martín Lozano spent 30 years ferreting out all 152...
Schachter-istically outspoken
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...