May 11, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, Madonna and Beeple drop an unspeakably bad NFT series, Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” shatters auction records, Marfa, Texas was added to the National Register of Historic Places, North America’s largest cave art site was found in Alabama, and much more.

Also, read Justine Smith's review of Ninja Thyberg’s new film Pleasure, which foregrounds questions of labor in the porn industry.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief 

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NEWS TODAY

Madonna and Beeple, still from NFT video artwork Mother of Nature (2022) (image courtesy the artists)

• Madonna partners with Beepel to release a series of NFTs that feature the star graphically birthing things out of her digital vagina.

• Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,”which bears the bullet holes shot by Dorothy Podber, breaks auction records with a $195 million sale.

• Measuring as tall as 11 feet, North America's largest cave drawings are discovered in Alabama.

• Transformed by Minimalist artist Donald Judd, Marfa, Texas, joins the National Register of Historic Places.

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