![]() ![]() We also had ambitions to tell a broader story of art in America, and while we offered spotlights of the Black Hudson River School painter Robert Duncanson, Haitian American contemporary painter Claes Gabriel and Romare Bearden, our subjects have skewed strongly white, and heavily male. We promised from Day 1 to de-baffle NFTs-our predictions about crypto art have mostly been proven right, and indeed the posts where we consolidated those views have been among our most popular. ![]() The Hanging Papers Nation went from indefatigable to indulgent during my several “Holiday Breaks,” when we put down the weighty matters and considered the less-pressing questions like, “What is Batman’s favorite opera?” and “Was Phantom of the Opera any good?” But the post on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet remains our most forwarded article, and for good reason: behind all the razzle-dazzle and “temporal pincers,” we revealed that the true central theme of the film: fire suppression in fine art storage. Do expect more on the Art Students League, particularly with many artist profiles long promised-both because you, the reader demanded it and because I remain, despite the best efforts of the long-suffraged membership, an active and vocal member of the board of control of that hoary institution. Certificate culture is always on my mind, but we’ve probably beaten the murder theme- ahem! -to death by this point. That battle-hardened constituency went from unflappable to indefatigable through three other sustained themes: a month spent on the history of certificate regimes in America on artists of the Gilded Age who murdered or got murdered and more recently, on the Art Students League of New York. Our readership was modest but unflappable, and in spite of being clobbered with this Yellow-Brick-Road metaphor for three more posts weighing in at a weltering 2,300+ words each, they tuned-in in growing numbers. When Hanging Papers launched, we were still hopeful about COVID vaccines - such halcyon days! Only in a naive time could a Substack commence with epigrams from The Wizard of Oz and David Graeber. ![]()
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