Daniel Cassady

reporter for @artnews. formerly @forbes and @nypost. shoe leather and racquet string. opines and typos, mine. next round, yours. open to mistakes.

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

The more I report on the #Louvre heist, the more I realize life imitates art imitates life: the museum was robbed in the same way in 1976—same window, same kind of loot. Hollywood’s reboot era has hit the Paris underworld. Soon on Apple TV: Tom Holland in The Thomas Crown Affair.

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@aservais1 @artnews Did you want to buy one? I can talk to Marc for you, put in a good word.

[ArtTactic @ArtTactic]

Just out on the ArtTactic Podcast: Our @adamgreenart speaks with @DanielCassady (@artnews) about the mood at the Armory Show, how galleries and collectors are adjusting in today’s market, and what it all signals for the fall season. 🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/6G4qDCLLlP

[Gary Shteyngart @Shteyngart]

Had no idea Trump was a spelunker. No one is better at caving.

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

Also, Matt Gaetz and Stephen Fry to Star in off Broadway production of Importance of Being Ernest. https://t.co/cEz9EmZofD

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

Maverick -> Star Wars -> Christian Schools -> Trump. I can see it. It's wild, but I can see it.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Popular Success of Top Gun: Maverick

After the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and rioting in 2020, it seemed to many in the intelligentsia that “culturally relevant” films needed to directly address DEI or systemic race issues to find wide appeal.

Top Gun: Maverick instead leaned heavily on classic modernist heroism themes, embodied by a white, male protagonist (Tom Cruise as Maverick) who is a traditional, rule-breaking figure dedicated to honor, duty, and meritocracy.

Maverick represented more traditional American values of meritocracy over aristocracy amid what was supposed to be a cultural revolution intended to set up a new inverted aristocracy.

[Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp]

I don’t think this is accurate.

We live in a backsliding democracy, but one that can still be defended through elections and legal process. Poland was far further along the authoritarian track than the US today, yet its voters ousted the ruling party last year

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@MaryJaneBryksa @AJDelgado13 @Liz_Cheney This is the correct answer.

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

“…Perhaps we needed a shock jock like him to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center.” https://t.co/W2dgdwDLD7

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This is Tina Brown, nailing it: “But more than any of this, Trump’s victory is a big fat raspberry to democratic orthodoxies, woke dogma, and identity politics. He is right to divine that America is sick to death of all of it…

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Art Basel and UBS Just Released a Survey of High Net Worth Art Collectors, What Does it Mean?https://t.co/cMvs4ywGHe

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Whatever could have caused this?!https://t.co/omJIpjEhM9

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

If there’s one living environment that needed pretty tight regulating, it would be Mars.

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

(More than) slightly painful facts coming Gioia this evening. 62% of adults didn’t read a single work of fiction last year. Is this the end of the novel’s influence or did I miss the death rattle? https://t.co/Cl59RFjBct

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

Meet the Latest Addition to the Art World: The Artist’s Agent https://t.co/keIlaTekAR

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Fresh off the press (and soon to be in print in the forthcoming issue of Art in America): my profile of Sotheby’s chief executive Charles Stewart. https://t.co/tCJzcZ8l3y

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

@TomSeymour You’re going to need a bigger boat.

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

@elonmusk @vkhosla The quote in the headline of the Guardian piece was from me, and I'd be pleased to debate you (or your little fingernail) at any point about why we don't in fact have a century to spare in solving this crisis.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

Elon Musk's free speech tweet has just been owned into next week by Armando Iannucci
https://t.co/mCnbrGoDaf

[Daniel Cassady @DanielCassady]

Banksy's London Animal Artworks, Ranked. Feel free to throw your two cents in. Or all 25. https://t.co/5NNTxbdpmF