Kevin Buist
@kevinbuist.com
Art critic, filmmaker, communicator.
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Flipping Coins
Kevin Buist reflects on Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games, crypto, and the attention economy
www.artforum.com
For @artforum.com I wrote about @chan.gallery's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at Nguyen Wahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. www.artforum.com/columns/mitc...
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The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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According to Lizza, Nuzzi was essentially doing PR for RFK, helping him get stories killed, running interference with other journalists, and the stinger at the end of the article is a cliffhanger implication that the Trump assassination attempt in butler PA was staged
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
According to Lizza, Nuzzi was essentially doing PR for RFK, helping him get stories killed, running interference with other journalists, and the stinger at the end of the article is a cliffhanger implication that the Trump assassination attempt in butler PA was staged
Can someone summarize the latest Lizza Nuzzi stuff?
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Can someone summarize the latest Lizza Nuzzi stuff?
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Pablo Picasso, The Turkey (Le Dindon), 1936 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pablo Picasso, The Turkey (Le Dindon), 1936 www.moma.org/collection/w...
Took me a bit to figure out that Pluribus is actually about AI.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Took me a bit to figure out that Pluribus is actually about AI.
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the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
Wait, the president is old?
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Wait, the president is old?
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Guillermo Del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness."
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Guillermo Del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness."
The painting sucks, but I guess that's no surprise. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Vanity Fair‘s Soon-To-Be-Published Hollywood Issue Includes an Intimate Portrait of Olivia Nuzzi
Vanity Fair plans to run an abstract nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi in its upcoming issue along with an excerpt of Nuzzi's forthcoming book <em>American Canto</em>
www.artnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The painting sucks, but I guess that's no surprise. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Got my Art Basel press pass.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Got my Art Basel press pass.
"The press release is so poorly edited that it repeats the same quote by executive director Jenni Parido twice."
Incredible.
news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
Incredible.
news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
What Is the Mysterious New Group Behind Trump's Venice Biennale Pick? | Artnet News
What is the American Arts Conservancy? Who are its advisors? Why is a pet foods entrepreneur in charge of the U.S. Venice Biennale pavilion?
news.artnet.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"The press release is so poorly edited that it repeats the same quote by executive director Jenni Parido twice."
Incredible.
news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
Incredible.
news.artnet.com/art-world/am...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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J2231
Why can't we have holidays the year round?
Why can't we have holidays the year round?
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
J2231
Why can't we have holidays the year round?
Why can't we have holidays the year round?
I while ago I was trying to figure out how to make a bot that draws content from Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Turns out someone already did it: @mythologybot.boodoo.co
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I while ago I was trying to figure out how to make a bot that draws content from Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Turns out someone already did it: @mythologybot.boodoo.co
What's Trump's Star Wars movie ranking?
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
What's Trump's Star Wars movie ranking?
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It truly does keep spreading, doesn't it?
Major Partagaz Enjoys Cerveza Cristal
YouTube video by FishEnds
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It truly does keep spreading, doesn't it?
One for eating, one for stuffing.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
One for eating, one for stuffing.
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Mandela effect is the logical culmination of conspiracy theory brain, you would rather construct an entire fictional parallel universe than admit you misremembered something.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Mandela effect is the logical culmination of conspiracy theory brain, you would rather construct an entire fictional parallel universe than admit you misremembered something.
This is a crazy story. Also, local news websites are completely unreadable trash. I feel bad for the reporters.
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is a crazy story. Also, local news websites are completely unreadable trash. I feel bad for the reporters.
I disagree with Jamelle on Rogue One, but I agree with him here. We have to be able to criticize movies! Come on people!
i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.
Or, movies are art/entertainment and that means wildly different things to different people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I disagree with Jamelle on Rogue One, but I agree with him here. We have to be able to criticize movies! Come on people!