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DIGEST 121: Like Art
I’ve been reading Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts and I just finished her essay on Ingrid Sischy, written in 1986 while Sischy was EIC of Artforum (she’d been appointed at 27 and, as she confesses to Malcolm, had never actually read...
DIGEST 120: The House that Diane Keaton Built
At Auction June 3-6, 2026
A disconcerting number of you emailed me about the Diane Keaton estate auctions at Bonhams this week. Duncan, my editor at Dwell, thought it could be a good story, but in looking through the catalog I was mostly s...
DIGEST 119: Clean Bill of Mental Health (?)
At Auction May 17-June 2, 2026
I’ve been rapt watching the new season of Couples Therapy; it’s kind of Cocomelon for Davids. I find myself so transfixed that it’s jarring when the episode ends. Sadly I finished it last night. I maintain it...
DIGEST 118: Jessi Reaves' Theory of the Freak Object
Good afternoon, divas. First, I wrote a semi-controversial piece on Frieze for New York Magazine here. Second, we have another special guest editor this week—Jessi Reaves, whose show, process invented the mirror is now on view the American...
DIGEST 117: New York David Week
At Auction May 13-19, 2026
It’s New York Design Week and New York Art Week, which is to say, get ready to see some of the most random Instagram content of your entire life. A private dinner sponsored by a soda to celebrate a lamp? Absolute...
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