Rachel Wetzler

bluesky slapped an adult content warning on a Jana Euler painting of unicorns 🤡

The Year of Demented Painting Rachel Wetzler surveys exhibitions of madcap art in New York, including Jana Euler's paintings and Jeff Koons's sculptures.

wrote about some demented art around New York, including the Jeff Koons show at Gagosian which is, I’m sorry, amazing. www.artforum.com/columns/fiel...

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December 2025 The December 2025 Year in Review issue of Artforum, featuring Top Tens, Portfolios, and the Best Shows of the year.

In Artforum’s December 2025 issue, a wide array of artists, curators, and writers reflect on the previous year. www.artforum.com/issue/2025/d...

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Cuomo has ran such a racist campaign that I was going to say that if you see him in the city you should hound him about it for the rest of the life but then I remembered that he doesn't live here and probably won't set foot here again after today.

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Spinning Yarns Rachel Wetzler visits the Bukhara Biennial and critiques the link between new biennials and soft power

In September I went to Uzbekistan for a week and now you can read about it in the November issue of Artforum. Tl;dr, the art was pretty good and the politics are pretty dicey. www.artforum.com/columns/bukh...

Ghost Town Rachel Wetzler visits October gallery shows on the Upper East Side, including Karen Kilimnik at Gladstone, P Staff at David Zwirner, and more.

today is the last day to see a couple of haunted exhibitions in New York's most sinister neighborhood (UES, obviously) www.artforum.com/columns/ghos...

Fifty Shades of Gray Rachel Wetzler on September gallery shows in Chelsea, SoHo, and Tribeca.

I wrote about some New York shows for a new Artforum column that I unsuccessfully lobbied to call Infinite Stroll. www.artforum.com/columns/fift...

counterpoint, Faun used to be good and then it got a new chef and became bad, at which point regulars (me) stopped eating there.

I hate it haha

personally, this show stresses me out to the point that I find it unwatchable, but I was genuinely secondhand starstruck when Michael told me he took a zoom call with DANNY DEVITO from our bedroom.

How a Show About Truly Terrible People Became the Defining American Sitcom

Michael wrote about the longest-running and most demented sitcom in the history of television for NYT magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/m...

just listened to Kirsten Gillibrand imply that Zohran wants to murder all Jews and destroy Israel. like an order of magnitude more racist than anything George W. Bush ever said about Muslims

I cannot stress enough that Mamdani’s plan is not to freeze all rents but to appoint a Rent Guidelines Board that he can direct to freeze rents on rent stabilized units, as De Blasio did several times.

The way people are talking about shit like free buses like it's dekulakization has me more convinced than ever that you could never get the idea of libraries off the ground today

Me too (lol), but there was just too much going on in this primary between the nepotism and the insane PAC spending and the 6 candidates for someone whose main selling point was competence to make enough of a dent!!! I am proud nevertheless.

Unfortunately my brother @voteben.nyc did not win his primary in D4 but my consolation prize is that Rachel Storch spent $500k to come in third.

Their race, like others, has been swamped by mailers and digital advertising from outside groups backed by companies such as DoorDash and the billionaires Bill Ackman and Steven Roth, who have also supported Mr. Trump and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner in the mayor’s race. Ms. Maloney has been by far the biggest beneficiary in her race of this outside support, with $450,000 backing her.

I appreciate @nytimes.com reporting on the obscene amounts of PAC spending in this race but maybe they could have mentioned this new one advertising on their site, run by fmr Congress Member Carolyn Maloney's COS that has not filed a single disclosure with the CFB... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

The cancellation of 123 affordable senior homes at Haven Green is shameful, and only reflects the corruption, dysfunction, and incompetence of the Adams administration.

I saw one or two last week around the poll sites on the UES/midtown but none in Brooklyn.

Ben Wetzler is our top pick for Manhattan's 4th Council District seat. He'll push for lowering neighborhood speed limits to 20 mph, restoring year-round outdoor dining, completion of the East River Greenway, and building new housing. More about @voteben.nyc here: www.streetspac.org/2025_nyc_pri...

In Hot Council Election, 2 Upper East Side Candidates Cross-Endorse In Hot Council Election, 2 Upper East Side... - Upper East Side, NY - The two East Side candidates are raising alarms about outside corporate spending on the local election.

I’m not unbiased here obviously but the amount of corporate and billionaire-backed PAC spending in the D4 city council race is bad for voters, bad for New York, and epitomizes why there’s so much disillusionment with our electoral process. patch.com/new-york/upp...

call me crazy but I think it’s actually pretty bad to have DoorDash’s PAC dumping over $200,000 into one city council race www.nyccfb.info/FTMSearch/In...

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In Hot Council Election, 2 Upper East Side Candidates Cross-Endorse The two East Side candidates are raising alarms about outside corporate spending on the local election.

Nice to see our top two picks for Manhattan's open 4th Council District seat cross-endorsing. patch.com/new-york/upp...

In Hot Council Election, 2 Upper East Side Candidates Cross-Endorse The two East Side candidates are raising alarms about outside corporate spending on the local election.

Proud to announce I'm cross-endorsing Vanessa Aronson in the district 4 Democratic primary. Republican billionaires and corporate interests are dumping unprecedented sums into this race on behalf of every candidate... except 2. Us honest public servants gotta stick together
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City council candidate Ben Wetzler posing with adorable toddler handing out campaign fliers

Toddler in rain boots handing out Ben Wetzler campaign fliers

Very committed campaign volunteer out in the rain for uncle Ben @voteben.nyc on the first day of early voting

and finally, I am legally obligated to remind you all that Eric Adams won in the EIGHTH ROUND of ranked choice voting in 2021 by about 7,000 votes. YOUR VOTE MATTERS. fill out that ballot with as many candidates as you find acceptable!