LINING UP FOR THE APOCALYPSE
The new gallery on Duane Park, Jack Hanley (more on that soon), had a line out the door and then some to see its most recent show, which is written up in artnet. The show was for the artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as the breakout NFT star Beeple, which filled the gallery with “violent, apocalyptic imagery of piled-up Amazon shipping containers, zombie-like factory workers, and huge, severed heads of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. All of the 13 prints and paintings had been reserved, with prices ranging from about $75,000 to $300,000.”

RUNNING FOR UKRAINE
ABC7 covered the New York Road Runners joining with the Ukrainian Running Club NYC on Saturday morning for a run to demonstrate solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Runners set off from Pier A dressed in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

REI WORKERS GO UNION
Gothamist reports that workers at the Soho REI on Houston voted last week to form the company’s first union in the country, organizers announced on Twitter. Eighty-eight of the store’s 102 employees voted to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, an REI spokesperson confirmed. Fourteen employees voted not to join the union.

NFTs AT A VENDING MACHINE
The Guardian sent a reporter down to John Street to buy an “non-fungible token” from the first-ever NFT vending machine — and if you know what that really is, congrats. It sounds like he bought a QR code in a cardboard box for $5.99 that when scanned was a color, but in this case it glitched and there was no color — just a blank image. You can also buy a “Party Pigeon” for $420.69.

Yes, I am going to have to go down there and blow six bucks on this thing…