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William Powhida

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Benjamin Sutton @bhsutton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was a such a treat to get to interview Taryn Simon about her fascinating show at the Guggenheim, which wrestles with the far-reaching and unpredictable ripple effects of American power: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/25/c...
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How much trouble is the art market in?
NYTimes headline "Jeff Koons is Selling $100 Million of His Personal Art Collection" above a photo  
of contemporary artist Jeff Koons.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The homie and LA treasure @cmonstah.bsky.social drops her first take on the Lucas in her @kcrw.com newsletter, to which you should be subscribed email.kcrw.com/the-lucas-mu...
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🎨 The Lucas Museum is a Missed Opportunity
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That was a hell of a game. Hello Learner Tien. Now I must sleep. #USOpen
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Assholocene.
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Manohla Darkness @manohladargis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Unionized New York Times staffers are speaking out against a potential partnership between The Athletic and Kalshi.” frontofficesports.com/article/new-...
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New York Times Union Demands Company Abandon Kalshi Talks
“Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company,” a letter from the union says.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sign of the times: multiple people having meltdowns at the post office over missing deliveries, terrible service etc. #wyckoff #bushwick
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A bourgeois control room, sure. And yet, I came back for the catalog and a second viewing of New Humans, or old humans as Massamiliano contends.
Page 13 from the New Humans catalog.A vase with flowers.$5 Americano.
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📣 TOMORROW: Join us, @investinourny.bsky.social & allies at City Hall Park in support of NYC’s pied-à-terre tax ahead of the City Council hearing. This tax would raise $500+ million in revenue by taxing high-value 2nd homes, helping address the city’s budget needs and fund critical services!
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It only took a free @nytimes.com article to discredit Third Way.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I never watch CBS so this is net win for continuing to suffer the @nytimes.com
Screenshot of the NYTimes announcement that Ross Douthat is leaving the paper for CBS news.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
IDK about all liberals, but media outlets are choosing.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Mr. Salam didn't run for the position, and certainly didn't win a challenging primary to become the mayor. He's also a conservative. This comparison is...useless?
Gift link to the whole NYTimes article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/nyregion/mamdani-manhattan-institute-affordability.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.u-oS.j8hDNltgFUVs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Checks out. I feel horrible. Obsession is streaming on Peacock.
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Largescale international fests have dominated the artworld in recent decades. A series of new exhibitions attempt something more local, but what, Jenny Wu asks, does it mean to be a local in the first place?
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Why Can’t Art Biennials Be Small?
And what, Jenny Wu asks, does it mean to be a local in the first place?
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another European team downed. Feeling good.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/06/2026
Serving up a rent freeze.
Mayor Mamdani cuts and serves an ice cream cake that says “Happy Rent Freeze” to New Yorkers. Mayor Mamdani cuts and serves an ice cream cake that says “Happy Rent Freeze” to New Yorkers. Mayor Mamdani cuts and serves an ice cream cake that says “Happy Rent Freeze” to New Yorkers. Mayor Mamdani cuts and serves an ice cream cake that says “Happy Rent Freeze” to New Yorkers.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Dang.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
wild
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Looks like News Channel 4 is going to interview Bushwick about @claireforny.bsky.social 's primary win.
Channel 4 news equipment set up on Wyckoff street in Bushwick in the early morning.
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Barry Hoggard @bhoggard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
hyperallergic.com/james-wagner...
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James Wagner, Insatiable Art Collector, Dies at 85
“His pursuit of knowledge knew no bounds, and he represented the very best of what might be considered the true collector’s spirit,” says artist Man Bartlett.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Check our the mixed media gallery in our digital exhibition A DECADE OF ART: expositionreview.com/expo-present.... @mirkumalt.bsky.social @powhida.bsky.social @briannasmykreder.bsky.social
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A Decade of Art: Mixed Media - Exposition Review
Visit the Other Galleries Painting   |   Photography   |   Comics   |   Illustration   |   Street Art Return to Lobby
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Barry Hoggard @bhoggard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There are a lot of people here whom we know only online, so I wanted to let everyone know that @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social passed away on Sunday from cancer. He was in hospice at home. I wrote about his final day. jwhealth.us/update/2026/...
James Wagner sleeping in a chair beneath a photograph called "Max is a Bachelor" by Chris Verene. He is embraced by his partner Barry who is leaning over him, face not visible. The table in front has flowers, a newspaper, and small key lime pies.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Two people care about something. Nice to see.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Our galleries are OPEN for our digital exhibition EXPO PRESENTS: A DECADE OF ART! Curated by @briannasmykreder.bsky.social, Luz Aguirre & Lauren Gorski, this exhibition features the full catalogue of Exposition Review’s art & comics sections, published from 2016-2026! Enjoy: tinyurl.com/ExpoArt10!
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Expo Presents: A Decade of Art - Exposition Review
Expo Presents: A Decade of Art Digital Gallery Storytelling comes in many forms. From the beginning, we have been passionate about sharing visual narratives and art alongside traditional written mediu...
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
oh.
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
cal arts is EXPENSIVE i would be fucking PISSED
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's art fair week in NYC and this is pretty much the most adjacent post in my feed. I also hope this is a painting by the Cold Play Chris.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It's hard not to feel even the most successful individuals in every field have failed us and themselves. Great work tho, congrats on that.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ha. Hahaha. haahahhahabahbabababanababbabahahs enjxnsndb spans hand shan chana. lolsob.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 05/05/2026
This was a gathering of oligarchs at a time when most New Yorkers are meting out their nickels on the grocery store line, hoping they can afford the inflated price of bread.
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Alexa, Show Me a Shitty Ass Met Gala
Jeff Bezos's party sucked.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I can guess which ones.
NYTimes headline highlighting the role Democrats played in ending the Homeland(er) Security shutdown.
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I tried to spend the equivalent of Trump’s proposed military budget. Globally, I eliminated hunger & extreme poverty; in the US, I ended homelessness, covered the uninsured, installed universal pre-K, sent another round of $600 checks, & powered 50% of households with solar. I have $77B left over.
What $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon could fund instead. This column chart compares the $1.504 trillion requested military budget for 2027 against a set of alternatives. In billions: 93, End world hunger; 318, End global extreme poverty; 29, End US homelessness; 214, Medicaid for uninsured; 35, Universal US pre-K; 141, Send $600 checks to 235M Americans; 596 , Power half of US households with solar. Proposed and estimated costs are annual, except solar (overnight capital cost) and $600 checks (matching cost of January 2021 relief payments). Data: President’s Budget for fiscal year 2027, author analysis.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
@greg.org archiving my mom's art and found this very early drawing and thought of you.
Late 80's graphite drawing by Nancy Powhida of local McDonald's in Ballston Spa, NY.
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Ben Davis @benadavis.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The @nybooks.com launched a new "In the Galleries" page, which is very cool, to cover art--and I'm very happy to help them launch it (along with the great Dawn Chan) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Visions of Depravity | Ben Davis
On Ceija Stojka at the Drawing Center
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
As a disappointed Knicks fan, this story is a bright spot in response to The Post and the @nytimes coverage of @mayor.nyc.gov bringing art and fandom together. news.artnet.com/art-world/to...
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The Tabloids Are Fouling Mayor Mamdani Over His Knicks Art. Here’s the Story | Artnet News
Painter Tom Sanford asks, why bother with a fake curse when we can celebrate a moment or art, sports, and New York pride coming together?
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is why no one should look at museum boards as a model.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Apex? lol.
NYTimes headline framing progressive policies as "anti-rich" and suggesting it's reached its apex.  This would be wrong.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“Noah Davis” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (or whatever they’re calling it now—they’re the HBO Max of museums) is essential viewing. It’s also really troubling. My take here: 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...
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Noah Davis
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov
NYTimes screenshot of Mayor Mamdani and wife Rama Duwaji from an article about their tax return above a wonderful headline saying he's skipping the Met Gala, an annual noxious melange of the worst excesses of art, fashion, and celebrity.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It tastes like Monet's water lilies with notes of money and brand deals.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
only 24% of respondents think it's worthwhile. 22% are "not sure" (oof, but perhaps accurate since there haven't been many reasons stated for the war in the first place).
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The fact that 49% of Americans think it's worthwhile is alarming. As if I needed more confirmation of the depth of the problems here.
Alarming NYTimes headline about the 49% of Americans who see some form of utility in the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It would seem the opposite of collective organizing is starting a podcast/substack. The demands of organizing (and progressive democratic practices are often too much for people who want an audience). #Onetomany
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The rest of UK society must be crumbling into the sea.
Images of western art in the NYTimes that are of interest to their conservative cultural critic.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It may be a little “inside baseball,” but there’s currently a discussion happening about how New York’s affordability crisis is impacting not just artists but the art they make. I weighed in, for @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/unlike-josh-...
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Unlike Josh Kline, I Choose New York
His new article taps into deep frustrations about affordability, but I throw my lot in with those making change, rather than moving out.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not everything needs a news alert.
An absolutely mind boggling news alert reads, "The Hunt. Two California transplants tested their $375,000 budget for a house in the Hudson Valley. Here's what they found."
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
NYTimes: But what about the missing airman? The one person who might give Iran leverage over their aggressor.
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William Powhida @powhida.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
There are about six people I care to follow on this site who still post somewhat regularly.
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