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NEW YORK STATE legalized recreational marijuana on March 31, 2021. Soon after, taco-truck-style weed vendors began turning up on street corners around Manhattan. Soon after that, brick-and-mortar dispensaries began popping up all over the city. Some brazenly branded themselves with spiky green seven-leaved rosettes; others attempted to be discreet, since, if you wanted to be a stickler about it, their business was illegal. One shop near my house went to the trouble of calling itself a “concierge club” and adopted a streamlined aesthetic between high-end sneaker shop and Apple Store. Within ....
Artforum in partnership with Sotheby’s will host “Normal Exceptions,” an online conversation that focuses on an exhibition of the same title currently up at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Today’s newsletter features the work and words of some of the event’s esteemed panelists as they have appeared in the magazine. Celebrating the art and artists for whom Mexico is home in one sense or another, tomorrow’s conversation welcomes Eugenio López Alonso, president of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, director of Kunstinstituut Melly; Kit Hammonds, chief curator of the Museo Jumex; and artists Mario García Torres and Melanie Smith. On this occasion, we invite you to look back at the ways in which these luminaries have enriched the pages of ....
Wet Paint: Frank Ocean Moves Into a Storied Studio Building, Hong Kong Hits Dealers With New Quarantines, & More Art-World Gossip What artist made a video for the new Balenciaga campaign? Who s the latest mega-dealer to open a gallery in Palm Beach? Read on for answers. Frank Ocean out and about in Manhattan in April 2019. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images) Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
For the last two decades a Chinatown building on Canal Street, surrounded by noodle shops and cut-rate bus services, has low-key held sway as a bustling hub of downtown art-world activity. The legendary run began in 2003, when ....