William Powhida
@powhida.bsky.social
Artsunion.org | Zeroartfair.com | Postcontemporary artist | You aren't a content farmer. Take a long break.
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“Art auctions and fairs become a choreographed attempt to convince the world that everything is fine. But everything is not fine. And most of the people making the work that keeps this machine running know it.” —Damien Davis
Everything Is Not Fine in the Art World
Auction headlines offer a picture of health that hides a body in crisis.
hyperallergic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“Art auctions and fairs become a choreographed attempt to convince the world that everything is fine. But everything is not fine. And most of the people making the work that keeps this machine running know it.” —Damien Davis
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"What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick?" Some observations about the American Arts Conservancy news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump's Venice Biennale Pick? | Artnet News
What is the American Arts Conservancy? Who are its advisors? Why is a pet foods entrepreneur in charge of the U.S. Venice Biennale pavilion?
news.artnet.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump’s Venice Biennale Pick?" Some observations about the American Arts Conservancy news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
Centrism, new flavor of soft serve at Hack Shack.
A little bit of both
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Centrism, new flavor of soft serve at Hack Shack.
Seeing if shame still works. tbd.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Seeing if shame still works. tbd.
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Are you showing new work or a career survey
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Are you showing new work or a career survey
It stuns me to think this is news. Confirmation has its uses.
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
It stuns me to think this is news. Confirmation has its uses.
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I have soooooo many questions www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
Alma Allen, American Sculptor, Is Selected for Venice Biennale
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I have soooooo many questions www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
I don't believe I've seen your art.
If someone called me up and asked me to represent the United States of America at the Venice Biennale, you better believe I’m saying yes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I don't believe I've seen your art.
Watching a film and wondering if it cost more to shoot a scene than the US military originally spent. I imagine the military's cost was anywhere from 3 to 1000 times higher (for nothing). The film may just be an added cost.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Watching a film and wondering if it cost more to shoot a scene than the US military originally spent. I imagine the military's cost was anywhere from 3 to 1000 times higher (for nothing). The film may just be an added cost.
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NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action · National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Join a national call to debrief this past weekend’s viral ICE Scraper action, strengthen our nonviolent strategy, and coordinate safe, visible actions nationwide.
Learn how communities are organizing ...
www.mobilize.us
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NATIONAL CALL: Learn to Replicate the "Scrape ICE Out of Home Depot" Action - www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - tomorrow 11/25 at 5pm/PT 8pm ET
"Even to me" says more than enough about this huckster clown and the publication donkey he rode into your feed on.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
"It is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression," James Carville writes.
"It is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression," James Carville writes.
Opinion | James Carville: Out With Woke. In With Rage.
Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
"Even to me" says more than enough about this huckster clown and the publication donkey he rode into your feed on.
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never been happier not to be related to someone. allen's ethical hollowness is slightly a surprise. curator uslip, not so much. the sponsoring organization is a mar-a-lago socialite pop-up.
If there ever was a time for Jeff Koons...his giant Christmas tree ornaments could have gone straight from Gagosian to the pavilion.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
never been happier not to be related to someone. allen's ethical hollowness is slightly a surprise. curator uslip, not so much. the sponsoring organization is a mar-a-lago socialite pop-up.
If there ever was a time for Jeff Koons...his giant Christmas tree ornaments could have gone straight from Gagosian to the pavilion.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If there ever was a time for Jeff Koons...his giant Christmas tree ornaments could have gone straight from Gagosian to the pavilion.
I can't say he's ever looked smart.
He only looks smart because his lies have overwhelmed a political culture that didn’t know how to respond to them. If I were a Trump fan, I’d start worrying about what happens when that stops. trib.al/u7DyIPK
America Is Finally Starting to
See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is
He came to power through a relentless assault of lies. But the debt owed to the truth is coming due.
trib.al
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I can't say he's ever looked smart.
I hope we get there.
The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I hope we get there.
The art market doesn't want communities. It just needs a few individuals to represent the idea of success and progress.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The art market doesn't want communities. It just needs a few individuals to represent the idea of success and progress.
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In retrospect maybe it was obvious that the mindblowing work of an artist who challenged so many expectations of what art could be ends up so invested in defining what it’s not.
New Non-Work Category Just Dropped: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Archival Material – greg.org
greg.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In retrospect maybe it was obvious that the mindblowing work of an artist who challenged so many expectations of what art could be ends up so invested in defining what it’s not.
Amazing and unexpected performances during #FallofFreedom today.
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Amazing and unexpected performances during #FallofFreedom today.
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bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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It’s getting too obvious. The times has an overt agenda. It is a far right publication.
Katie Wilson, Seattle’s next mayor, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
Katie Wilson, who narrowly defeated the incumbent, Bruce Harrell, emerged from the city’s left-wing activist class and brings with her little experience in governing.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It’s getting too obvious. The times has an overt agenda. It is a far right publication.
Sometimes I wish Brian Lehrer on @wnyc.org wouldn't refer to progressive and redistributive taxation on corporations and high income earners as a "tax hike." Reductive and generalizing.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sometimes I wish Brian Lehrer on @wnyc.org wouldn't refer to progressive and redistributive taxation on corporations and high income earners as a "tax hike." Reductive and generalizing.
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I would love to read an article about how the NY Times abetted the Epstein coverup. There are probably enough disgruntled ex-employees floating around that you could start piecing it together.
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I would love to read an article about how the NY Times abetted the Epstein coverup. There are probably enough disgruntled ex-employees floating around that you could start piecing it together.