Spill The Art Tea 🎨🍵 ft. Brian Raftery 🗣️ Sotheby’s Slip-Up, AI Blackmail & Photographer Antics

Actor and multi-instrumentalist Brian Raftery joins us for a jam-packed episode as we dive into the week’s wildest art stories—from AI agents threatening blackmail to a photographer arrested at his own opening. Plus: a Sotheby’s sale that didn’t exactly break records, an Irish hotel mystery note, and a Dumas auction flip that paid off big time.

🪙 Sotheby’s Spring Sale – Giacometti tops the night, but the market stays cautious

🏨 The Hotel Wall Note Mystery – A wartime time capsule from 1943 Cork

🖼️ Dumas Sells Big – Miss January hits $5.1M, from a $22K buy

🤖 Anthropic’s AI Blackmail Drama – When simulated agents go full villain

🚔 Isaac Wright Arrested – NYPD shows up at a photographer’s own show

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