Brian Boucher™️

Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas President Donald Trump touted gold curtains he selected for the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony shortly as Americans die in the Iran war.

Trump Rambles About Golden Drapes in White House as Americans Die Overseas

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In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails Tod Lippy has hired an LED truck that will troll the Los Angeles art world with emails between art-world luminaries and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’ The aisles were packed with collectors, museum trustees and, of course, actors at the latest edition of the Frieze Los Angeles fair.

Frieze LA VIP day report: www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years The DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years amid substantial financial challenges at its parent university, which has initiated layoffs.

Chicago’s DePaul University will shutter its art museum, it announced moments ago. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil Laurence des Cars, director of the Louvre, left her post amid strikes, a heist, leaks, and internal turmoil.

Breaking on ARTnews: Louvre director resigns. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

🎶Chicago! Fuck yeah! 🎵

Chicago Just Named A Snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’— Here Are The Other Winners The city received a record number of entries and votes for its annual snowplow-naming contest. The Department of Streets and Sanitation announced the six winners Monday.

It's a small win, but still... this fills me with civic pride.

Please shoot me.

A photo shows a woman underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of cars

A photo shows a man underwater, snorkeling above a number of concrete sculptures of cars largely covered with red algae

“I Swam To See an Underwater Art Project Off Miami Beach That Imagines a Better Aquatic World.” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Absolutely tremendous movie. I watched it again recently and does it ever hold up.

Cam Girl Has Ash On Forehead

This is funny to me every year. theonion.com/cam-girl-has...

Art Investing Startup Masterworks Files Legal Complaint Against an Early Hire Over Lawsuit Threat A co-founder and former chief product officer at startup Masterworks is threatening to sue over wrongful termination. The company says he resigned.

When “you can’t fire me—I quit!” looks more like “I didn’t quit—you fired me!” My latest for ARTnews. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Another.

After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...

Sickening.
#ICEOUT #MN
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Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February.

Some news about Artforum: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

It’s almost as though our government were run by a secret cabal of sex traffickers.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

My doctor, who is very watchful about my blood sugar, recently asked me if I have carb cravings. I realized that I didn’t know there was any other way to experience the world.

As you may have heard, Trump bragged about a supposed weapon used in Venezuela that he claims to have dubbed the Discombobulator.

“Sir, is there any chance the Discombobulator is on now?” asks Colbert. “I would not describe your recent behavior as, uh, ‘combobulated.’”

Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Epstein Files Reveal Friendship with SVA Chair David A. Ross: ‘I’m Still Proud to Call You a Friend’ David A. Ross, who headed museums including the Whitney and SFMOMA, corresponded with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein over several years.

Epstein discussed with Ross an idea for a show of photos of underage people called “Statutory.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files

It’s almost as though our government is run by a cabal of child pornographers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Federal officers use crowd control munitions as demonstrators protest outside Portland ICE building Thousands of protesters turned out for a mostly peaceful demonstration Saturday in Portland to speak out against increased immigration enforcement. By the end of the day, scores of nonviolent proteste...

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FYI, Kristi Noem’s full
initials are K.L.A.N.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JOURNALISTS, STOP SAYING “ACCORDING TO PEOPLE FAMILIAR.”

FAMILIAR TO WHO?