A record-breaking Jackson Pollock sale for $181 million at Christie's is mentioned alongside a personal decision to skip New York art fairs. The focus shifts to other art-related experiences and achievements, including Linda Montano’s home-shrine visit in a devotional chicken costume and Gabrielle Goliath’s video installation Elegy, which moved to a church in Venice after being banned from South Africa’s pavilion for political reasons. The piece also notes Hyperallergic winning a New York Press Club journalism award for Noah Fischer’s comic, supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, covering housing justice efforts in NYC. The overall emphasis is on choosing what to engage with and celebrating diverse cultural contributions.
"Soon after, a spate of auctions culminated in the record-breaking sale of a Jackson Pollock for $181 million at Christie's. I wasn't there either, and I had 181 million reasons to not care."
"Instead, I kept thinking of pioneering performance artist Linda Montano, who's now 84. She invited our contributor Taliesin Thomas into her home-shrine in Upstate NY, welcoming her in a devotional chicken costume. God bless "Chicken Linda." I urge you to read this profile."
"I was also thinking about Gabrielle Goliath's exhibition Elegy, now on view at a church in Venice after the South African culture minister banned it from the country's pavilion for political reasons. I'm glad to report that the video installation only benefits from the alternative location and reaches deep into the heart."
"Hyperallergic won the New York Press Club journalism award for Noah Fischer's comic "A Prospect Heights Ghost Story"? Supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, it was the final part of a series that focused on the artists, activists, and organizers on the front lines of the housing justice movement in NYC."
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