Art market

Let’s forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the Absolute, all together in the alltogether (sic).

— Yayoi Kusama in a 1968 open letter to U.S. President Richard Nixon offering to have sex with him if he stopped the Vietnam War.

Yes, this is an auction record at Ketterer Kunst. In recent years we've had several very high results in the three- and four-hundred-thousand-euro range for Baumeister paintings from this important phase, but with 'Phantom with Red Figure' we have for the first time surpassed the magical threshold of 500,000 euros.

— Julia Scheu, head of the Scientific Cataloguing Department at Ketterer Kunst, on the Baumeister auction record for Phantom with Red Figure

They're drinking vodka and champagne in their pavilion, soaked in the blood of Ukrainian children.

— Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot told me this, describing Russia's bid to return to the Biennale as part of its hybrid warfare.