know a guy in France that will take 2 months off and delete his whole inbox when he gets back

"if it's urgent, someone's already handled it

if it's important, they'll just send it again

if it's neither, then I don't care"

The same thing that is happening to journalism, to restaurants, to bookstores to Hollywood, to everything beautiful and interesting in this country, is happening to art. Jobs are disappearing. Venture Capital funds are getting involved. In early 2020, 1,350 jobs were cut at American museums. What was barely profitable is now being gutted with the g... See more

As Duchamp said, “To live is to believe.” I will never stop believing in the omnipotent, ameliorative potency of art, despite the charades and shenanigans.

Shockingly, in 2020, I was invited to speak at MIT. Bubiko, at that time, was a raggedy paper doll that I moved around with wire. She symbolized the potential of AR, Augmented Reality. My partner and I were very very poor, with plenty of hope and uncertainty. Investors call a billion dollar company a unicorn. For my talk, I decided upon the title o

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