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The Art Daddy's Weekly Daddy Wrap up for 4/24/26: This Could Have Been an Email, But It’s 40,000 Slides for Legacy Purposes

From Saltz’s archive spiral to institutions “recalibrating,” everyone is positioning.

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Apr 24, 2026
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It has been a week in the art world and it is giving full The Real Housewives of New York City “Scary Island,” specifically Kelly Bensimon spiraling, eating jelly beans, running through the villa talking about Al Sharpton, while Bethenny Frankel is trying to get a straight answer, Sonja Morgan is half in, half out, and Ramona Singer is pretending everything is fine while actively making it worse. That exact moment when no one is sleeping, no one is making sense, and the group dynamic fully breaks down but everyone is still technically on vacation. The shift from chaotic entertainment to low level psychological event. That is the energy right now. The moment where everyone realizes this is not just messy, it is structural, and no one really knows how to reset it.

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