SNOW SURRENDER DOROTHY, 2026

Surrender Dorothy, an artwork Banks Violette also said was not an artwork, 2026, painted plywood and aluminum, 70 x 93 x 48 in., via IG/banks_violette_616 Texting “Hi Banks! I hope you are well. Is that ‘Surrender Dorothy’ sign your piece? The owner of the property has asked me to help her sell it.” is a helluva way to try to simultaneously authenticate an artwork and get an OK to sell it. Especially when you know full well whose it is, and what it’s doing on the roof of the Williamsburg townhouse where your gallery partner’s staging a show in his other side hustle gallery with his other partner. The texter is Caroline Snow, of the Dash Snows and Thurmans and de Menils, whose Snow Gallery was not formally involved in Beginning of (The End), the Banks Violette show Frank Haines organized at New Dracula Theater, an exhibition space and recording studio in Brooklyn he opened last year with fellow artist Chip Kolpen. Violette collages on aluminum hung inside; a video projection filled the…