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Wet Paint: David Zwirner Goes Downtown, Dealer Flips Amy Sherald Work He Pledged to Donate, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which Dia board member banned Succession from filming on site? What mega-collector partied late with the downtown crowd? Read on for answers. April 9, 2021 David Zwirner at left; at right, the future site of the gallery s Tribeca outpost. Photo courtesy Getty; photo by Nate Freeman. 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]
Regular Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca, a place replete with wall-less lofts upstairs and tall-ceilinged storefronts downstairs. The appeal is obvious: As one neighborhood dealer said the other day, all the kids of the canonical contemporary art collectors on the ....
A trio of Detroit residents two white and one Asian American say they’ve been denied the opportunity to live in a racially integrated community, and they ve filed a lawsuit over it. A suit like theirs is uncommon, but not unheard of, legal experts say. The standard of proof plaintiffs must present in such a case is high, experts say, and it s hard to say how it will do in court. Last summer, 16 residents in part of the Islandview neighborhood, near West Village and Belle Isle, met to talk about ways to support one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. They realized nearly all of the residents gathered were white, except for one person who was Asian American. And that was part of a bigger problem in their neighborhood, they say. ....
by Violet Ikonomova Tenant signs call out Villages Property Management during a June protest against evictions. (Photo: Facebook) When more than a dozen renters new to Detroit’s up-and-coming Islandview neighborhood met last year to consider forming a tenants’ union, they were struck by the realization that in addition to sharing a landlord, they almost all shared the same skin color: White, in a neighborhood that’s predominantly Black. That discovery is now the basis of a federal lawsuit brought by three of the tenants last month, alleging landlords Reimer Priester and Alex DeCamp racially discriminated against Black prospective and existing tenants by either refusing to rent to or attempting to evict them, thereby “unlawfully (depriving)” the non-Black tenants of “the social and professional benefits of living in a racially integrated society.” ....