William Powhida

Enjoying a private chat with a friend walking through Frieze LA. Liberating for all the opinions about market-oriented art.

Thinking about US cities that would be celebrating wildly (where I am) or mourning (where I hope to avoid) if Iran blew up Trump.

Bored of Peace, starting to make the rounds. The organization was always a joke that will never be funny. Just historically awful.

Stranger Things Co-Creator Matt Duffer’s Manhattan Pied-à-Terre Features a 15-Foot Brutalist Sofa and Chocolate Walls Duffer, his fiancée Sarah Hindsgaul, and designer Kyle O’Donnell transformed a long-neglected 1929 apartment into a playful escape for family life

I don't think people really think about how the wealthy live, or talk about this enough. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/strang... Architectural Digest is a resource for radical thoughts.

As Black History Month comes to a far too soon close, we celebrate W.E.B. Du Bois during his birthday week.

Maybe just its data centers.

There are a whole lot of people in the world who want fauxrt in their homes, the gentle visual muzak that serves as a kind of respite from the horrors of their work.

You could also add a bit of smoke to one of these buildings and title the work "Soho House on Fire (after Ruscha)"

Rich people, bloated with accumulated wealth, rushing through white cubes, feeding. Such a picture of a healthy, stable society.

If Bari didn't make you leave Paramount earlier. NPR and your regional affiliates could def use your membership.

This is still a Jerry Saltz-free space (minus parody accounts). That is remarkable and joyous. So many artists will remain tethered to him elsewhere.

Keeping Coke and Pepsi close.

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

"Be the change" has slowly morphed into "fund the things." That tracks.

"The share of Americans holding crypto has been stuck at around 30 percent for the past four years. Demand is so slack that the owners of the heavy-duty hardware that mines new crypto are increasingly turning it into A.I. data centers."

It would be something if AI ate Bitcoin.

He's either lying to his base or also really believes other countries/exporters pay his tariffs.

An image of a phone booth with a poster but the artist collective The Guerrilla Girls calling for the removal of Leon Black and Glenn Dubin off the board of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

But if you come to it via the Guerrilla Girls in 2026, welcome.

I'll never forget the level of eye rolling dismissal #StrikeMoMA was met with over confronting Leon Black's ties to Epstein. That was just one issue people might know enough to care about. hyperallergic.com/tag/strike-m...

I feel a tremor of subscription cancellations @us.theguardian.com @theguardian.com

Some masks.

Did you write the vibe coding thing in the Times?

Optimism!

*Bored of Peace

of course it's the Uhleins. buying or using Uline funds trans hate campaigns all over the place, same as the wizard stuff

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The grotesque.

Alt text: Screenshot of a New York Times article headline: "Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality" with subheadline analyzing his self-aggrandizement.

You could not do this @nytimes.com ?

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

jack lang has gotten a decent amount of heat for his extensive epstein dealings, but almost none of it mentions his daughter caroline lang who, while at sotheby's, set up a bogus art investment company with epstein called pyrantee, where they lied to banks about their respective investments & roles