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Art Daddy is a New York-based art journalist, cultural critic, professor, and art world provocateur with academic backgrounds in cultural studies, performance theory, criticism, and gender studies. Their work examines contemporary art, media, labor, power, and the increasingly chaotic social theater of the art world through a mix of cultural analysis, reporting, and psychologically destabilizing levels of gossip observation.

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Thank you for sharing about the origins of , his artist-run commercial gallery that opened in 2024.

We talk about why he decided to open the gallery, what drew him to the building, where the name “Procession” came from, and more.

Be sure to check out the current exhibition, “Treasure Sanctuary,” a collection of monotypes by , open now through June 7, 2026.

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Exterior shot of Procession Gallery.

Installation shot of our show Lamp of Memory, 2025.

Installation shot of Neysa Grassi’s and Stuart Shils works from Between Light and Darkness, 2026.

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I hate baseball. But I’m a lover of art.

has a group show about baseball called “Shoulder to Shoulder, Skin to Skin on view now through Saturday, May 2, 2026. The exhibition features work by .user

Be sure to check out the closing reception this Saturday along with ‘s “Smokesignals” and the launch of Issue 3 (4-7pm).

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Exhibition images of Alexandria Nazar’s WIP, Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches, 2026. Bucky Miller’s Andres “El Gato” Galarraga Baseball Team (Batter), Baseball card, Museum Gel, less than 3 inches, 2026 with Long Bat, Wood and bat, 2019. Spine, Leather, silk, granite, steel, bearing balls, pine rosin, Darth Vader house key, 2026. Sculpture by Mary Champagne.

Pledge, Photo on paper, 6 x 9 inches, Bucky Miller.

Close up of Mary Champagne’s Consider the Grip, Steel, pine rosin, projector, found footage of It Happens Every Spring (1949), Encyclopedia Britannica’s Throwing in Baseball (1947), 24 x 24 x 48 inches, 2026.

Graig Kreindler’s Octavius Catto, Print on paper, 5 x 7 inches, 2020.

“Despondent Phillies Fan,” Graphite on paper, 13 X 19 inches, 2024, Jamison Mead.

Thank you for chatting about your upcoming presentation at with .space . In our conversation we discuss how art fairs are loud and her work invites a sense of quiet and stillness. Her work requires empty space, not just negative space as a formal quality, but as an active material. She also speaks about her time in Japan, the conceptual choice to use of paper in her work and some upcoming exhibitions to keep on our radar.

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Image caption: Apocalypto, Rattail cord, wire fencing, book board, foam, sandpaper, acrylic paint, 6 x 9 x 11 feet, 2025.

To Loving and Being Loved, Found vintage photograph, matboard, glass, 13 x 10 inches, 2025.

Untitled, Blowout on cotton and abaca base, 40 x 30 inches, 2026.

Untitled, Blowout and linen pulp paint on cotton and abaca base, 10 x 18 inches, 2026.