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This week: An NFT market correction, Kenny Schachter radios in from the crypto frontier, mega-galleries jostle for supremacy, and more.

This week: An NFT market correction, Kenny Schachter radios in from the crypto frontier, mega-galleries jostle for supremacy, and more.

Missing in Action Image courtesy Phillips and Poly. “Woo-hoo!” said Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’s chairman of Asia, as he brought down the gavel on the last lot of a two-hour hybrid auction in Hong Kong and Beijing on Tuesday. The sale, held in partnership with mainland auction house Poly, served to underscore the growing demand in Asia for younger, emerging art stars.  All told, the sale series brought in $90 million (HK$701.5 million), handily exceeding the presale estimate of $46 mil...

Sale school marches 2,470 miles ­— inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore  ANDREW Grainger, the head of PE at Manor Academy, the Sale special needs school for children aged 11-19, is proud of his pupils and staff. In a money-raising exercise for Place2be-Children’s Mental Health, the 190 pupils and 65 staff exceeded the 600 miles they were asked to walk and, instead, completed 2470 miles! Before that, Mr Grainger had, himself, completed a 100 mile challenge despite having a bad leg,...

Even though long-term COVID symptoms are not always visible, they are very real and costly. It’s been almost a year since Mae Smith got COVID-19, and she still experiences symptoms including crushing fatigue and a brain fog that makes it hard to think. Smith was a policy director for a New York City social service agency when she first contracted COVID-19, and continued working despite lingering flulike symptoms last summer. Then she got rapidly worse in the fall. “I got migraines every sin...

Looking Back on Emily Mae Smiths "Feast and Famine" @ SCAD Museum of Art Looking back at the year we just left behind, we still wanted an opportunity to do a little recap of Feast and Famine, Emily Mae Smiths solo exhibition which was on view at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah through Jan 1, 2021. It was part of a stellar seaason of shows at SCAD, one of which also being Derrick Adams show we just wrote about. Curated by Ben Tollefson, associate curator of SCAD exhibitions, the selection of pai...

Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justices lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk. The agencys website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.  Among the list are four people who offici...

(Courtesy photo) Sheridan College Range Club students took first place in all of the undergraduate competitions at the Wyoming Society for Range Management Conference held this month. The conference took place virtually on Dec. 3 and 4 and featured educational sessions and student competitions modified for a virtual format. Sheridan College students competed against students from around the state on topics that focused on the Thunder Basin National Grassland, drought, grazing and invasive spe...

box, where the cold on top of all that snow is now making road travel even more treacherous, also making it tough for folks to dig out in places like minneapolis, which you can see in the bottom box, now this fierce storm is heading east. jenna: thats not all, jon. as far as the west, it has its very own weather woes, not a whole lot of snow out there but heavy rain pounding oregon, washington, flood watches now in effect in parts of those two states, as incredible flooding sparks muds...