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MLB team pays out fallen star's $51.2m salary so he'll go away (Fox Sports)

MLB team pays out fallen star's $51.2m salary so he'll go away.

But all of that changes the equation for all involved with the Mets. It makes them the Yankees. It makes them win or else. “I do like hearing we are here to win and we will do whatever it takes to win and that we have to go out and get that done. This is the league the Mets play in now after Francisco Lindor signed a $US341 million contract one offseason and Max Scherzer received the largest per-annum deal in MLB history the next offseason. As one Mets official noted, when Cohen bought the team he knew the day was coming when he would have to make an early decision on Cano — and he spent the $US2.45 billion anyway. They would not have been convinced about sunk costs and fully maximising the roster. The fans have been in love-fest mode because Wednesday has been the anomaly. Atlanta is the four-time defending division champ, the defending World Series champ and — until proven otherwise by Philadelphia or Miami — the main threat to the Mets capturing the division crown for the first time since 2015. He inherited bases loaded, no outs from Tylor Megill in the sixth inning of a scoreless game, allowed all three righty hitters he faced to reach and left with five runs having scored and to what have become rare boos this year at Citi Field. The Mets are going for it this year. The ramifications. The implications. The pressure.

The 5 Best Booths at NADA New York, From Off-Kilter Nature to ... (ARTnews)

Luke Parnell at Macaulay & Co. “You carry your culture and your trauma on your back,” said Luke Parnell, a Canadian artist ...

Accompanying the sculpture is a sound work made by Mexican artist Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola made by experimenting with natural materials like bark, rocks, dry leaves, a tin bucket, and a keyboard. Parnell was referencing his Macaulay & Co. booth, where he is showing a trio of box drum sculptures at his Macaulay & Co. booth, the center one of which is fitted with backpack straps. At the furthest end is a small black box symbolizing traumas in his community, including the crisis of missing and murdered Native women across Canada. “It’s the smallest one because if it was any bigger, it would be too much to bear,” said Parnell. The drum fitted with the straps is a self-portrait in which he sees himself as a fulcrum that balances the weight of the other boxes. Oluseye, a Nigerian-Canadian artist who recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, brought a large selection of his “Plowing Liberty” series to Patel Brown Gallery’s NADA booth. Racheal Browning’s photographs depict various landscapes: a patch of soil, a clump of cacti that have all been leveled by the artist herself. Patrick’s section is but one highlight in a fair with much to see.

At NADA, a Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics (The New York Times)

The New Art Dealers Alliance brings together more than 120 galleries and nonprofit organizations from 37 cities.

Other notable galleries showing paintings include Stephen Thorpe at Denny Dimin (Booth 6.14); Mickey Lee at One Trick Pony (Booth 6.01) and a group show at The Pit (1.01) The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a group of new and mostly young art dealers. Another wants three shoes (a pair and a half, apparently). And then there is the 5-year-old whose work is priced at $55,555. (You can, predictably, track the progress of these pets online at https://metaversepet.zone.) Anna Valdez at the Los Angeles gallery Ochi (Booth 4.14) is showing both mediums. Gustav Hamilton at the Denver gallery David B. Smith (Booth 4.09) simply collapses the two: his wall reliefs are part painting, part ceramic. This makes sense, since the younger generation of digital natives (people who grew up with the internet and social media) that NADA generally features tend to favor art that is pointedly nondigital and handcrafted. Ryan Crotty at the Lower Manhattan gallery High Noon (Booth 6.15) does a spin on modernist formalism, making translucent abstractions with an acrylic gel medium that creates ethereal and iridescent results that look almost holographic. One child is requesting a chocolate Easter bunny. Younger dealers presumably take greater risks, and you see plenty of that here — in tone and attitude, mostly. And yet, artists and dealers need to make a living, hence the prevalence of painting and sellable crafts that knowingly copy the normcore aesthetic of thrift shops and folk art. Two things can be found everywhere at NADA New York in Lower Manhattan: painting and ceramics.

New York Gets a New Bull, and Other News – SURFACE (Surface Magazine)

Debuting at the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel, Enrique Cabrera's El Toro de Oro nods to the neighborhood's heritage as an epicenter for slaughterhouses.

The project is an adaptation of a vacant and partly crumbling commercial bakery complex on the east side of Detroit, with a sizable fortress of cinderblocks attached. “Sheena Wagstaff would often visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s when she was an arts student, seeking refuge among the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Asian art department. “It only makes sense that this piece, signifying the convergence of old and new in the greatest city in the world, would live on these streets,” says Cabrera, known for his large-scale skull sculpture, Palmarius, that has traveled to more than 28 countries. The bronze Charging Bull statue outside of the New York Stock Exchange is getting a younger brother. Debuting today in front of the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel, Mexican artist Enrique Cabrera’s El Toro de Oro isn’t a symbol of a prosperous economy but rather an ode to the neighborhood’s gritty heritage as an epicenter for slaughterhouses and meat packing plants. Think of it as your cheat sheet for the day in design delivered to your inbox before you’ve had your coffee.

NEW YORK GETS A NEW BULL: ICONIC GANSEVOORT ... (Yahoo Finance)

In partnership with the Meatpacking BID, Gansevoort Meatpacking, the hotel credited for the revitalization of the Meatpacking District with its opening in ...