Friends of the Pod: Friends of the Pod

- Wellll-come back to a special exhibition of No-ta Be-ne, here we are again on Broadway on a sunny winter’s day,
- Fresh off the jet,
- great workout at Barry’s this morning,
- we’re in the Bode tuxedo, I’ll have a scotch on the rocks, make it a double,
- what a week we have ahead of us. How you holding up Nate?
- Fantastic!!
- Joe and Pascal, when I showed them these paintings, they were losing their shit,
- This show is dope,
- You have to just embrace it,
- You have to just get down. It’s the art world as a podcast,
- the only art podcast,
- the art world as a podcast as an exhibition,
- as the art world,
- the code of bonhomie: the dinners, the drinks, the friendships, the rivalries, going to exclusive parties,
- the Bauer terrace, Les Trois Rois,
- the parts of the game that greases the wheels,
- so who’s in the show?
- Well …
- Just about everyone in the art world that matters!
- He listens in his studio and he always texts and says, ‘I know that guy, he’s an asshole.’
- He’s a genuinely wonderful person,
- There’s no one fucking cooler,
- big dogs,
- We’ll be hosting an extraordinary dinner with our friends—
- There’s a dinner?
- great table, very chic,
- Well I’d love to come but I don’t think I got the invite—
- you know what’s great at The River? The hot dogs.
- Who else is coming to dinner?
- Another scotch please—and the collectors,
- Oh wow,
- solid vibe,
- I’m with my clients in the golf cart,
- that’s cool, very chill,
- You know what you can’t buy? Taste. You have it or you don’t.
- ah one more night of dinners, Ben; one more.

—Dean Kissick
New York
January 2024