Art Industry News: Famed Ceramicist and Part-Time Actor Seth Rogen Is Quietly Building a Star-Studded Art Collection + Other Stories
Plus, New York museums increase their capacity to 50 percent and Rirkrit Tiravanija joins David Zwirner.
Seth Rogen at the 2019 SXSW Conference. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW.
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Are These Art Dealers Getting Into the Vaccine Business? – The Abu Dhabi-based art dealers Natalya Muzaleva and Istvan Perger have reportedly expanded their business portfolio (which already includes oil and real estate) to include the sale of vaccinations to Europe through controversial private-sector supply deals. The Czech prime minister rejected the pair’s offer to procure and sell some one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the Czech Republic, tellin
Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
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How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.
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Seth Rogen’s home sits on several wooded acres in the hills above Los Angeles, under a canopy of live oak and eucalyptus trees strung with outdoor pendants that light up around dusk, when the frogs on the grounds start croaking. I pulled up at the front gate on a recent afternoon, and Rogen’s voice rumbled through the intercom. “Hellooo!” He met me at the bottom of his driveway, which is long and steep enough that he keeps a golf cart up top “for schlepping big things up the driv
Bangorâs Ward Park to receive world class facelift
Council officer acknowledges the historic park has become tired looking
07:28, 16 APR 2021
Ward Park in Bangor (Image: Google)
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New coronavirus relief plan made it to Senate, but may be delayed if lawmakers canât compromise
New coronavirus relief plan may be delayed if lawmakers canât compromise By Breanne Bizette | March 4, 2021 at 5:49 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 9:17 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The new COVID-19 relief plan made it to the Senate, but there may be a delay if lawmakers canât come to a compromise, which could delay the issuing of stimulus checks.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the chamber will stay in session through the weekend to vote on the new trillion-dollar coronavirus relief plan, but if changes are made, that means stimulus checks wonât come as quickly as expected. The country is closing in on a year since the pandemic started, and already, folks are on their third round of stimulus checks. However, people in Baton Rouge are still going through the motions trying to stay afloat.
Jessica Shaefer. Photo by Miguel Arzabe.
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Facebook’s art curator Jessica Shaefer, the daughter of a New York-based artist, was once reluctant to become a part of what she had long viewed as a challenging and veiled industry. But after following her own pursuits for many years, she was pulled back to art in her mid-20s when she began working for Vito Schnabel, the Manhattan art dealer who was at the time just beginning his art career. For a long time, Shaefer worked as a curator, art dealer, and “almost every other art world job you could possibly have,” taking time to get to know the ins and outs of the the industry and thinking she would