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Artist William Powhida on the NuMu's "suicide"
New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, ...
How The New Museum Committed Suicide With Banality
artfagcity.com — POST BY PADDY JOHNSON The Brooklyn Rail commissioned the right artist to do their cover feature on... the questionable curating practices of New Museum. William Powhida, an artist known for donning fictional personas in order to critique the art ... (more) How The New Museum Committed Suicide With Banality

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Blogs: The New Museum Is Dead
New York Press — ... No, it wasn't stabbed by a drunken resident of the Bowery Mission, this was a self-inflicted wound. William Powhida s new cartoon, entitled "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality, shows how the institution that was designed to be a showcase for new art that wouldn t play anywhere else is instead being used as a forum for trustees to get their private collections put up. At least, that s what Powhida thinks. The cartoon, which can be seen ...

¡Art World Smackdown! William Powhida does a diving elbow drop on the New Museum.
C-MONSTER.net — ... Sorry I’m not in town for the NuMu pile-on (I’m working on cultivating a veritable constellation of bug bites here in Costa Rica), but you can read all about the brouhaha here, ...

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