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Top 100 contemporary artworks of 2025, insider trading on Maduro capture, and more
Welcome To January 5th
Today’s Important Headlines
🎥 Top 100 contemporary artworks of 2025
Contemporary 100 has released its annual selection of 100 artworks across all mediums including installations, paintings, performance, video, photography, and hybrid formats. Highlights include Amedeo Capelli’s Fake Courtesy Machine, Rueben Dangoor’s Vape Houses, and Lauren Tsai’s The Dying World, and Pablo Rochat’s Airpod Practice, and Vera Selene Tegelmen and Jukka Tarvainen’s Cutting Edge.
📈 A Trump insider may have just made 400k on Polymarket
A brand new Polymarket account began placing large bets just hours before Trump publicly escalated attacks on Venezuela. With only four predictions, the account reportedly turned $30,000 into nearly half a million dollars, largely on bets related to Madruo’s political future. The suspicious timing has led many to speculate the trader has direct ties to Trump’s circle reflecting growing concerns about insider trading within the US government.
🎼 Rare chance to see music videos from Ken Carson, Geese, and more on the big screen
A 2025 music video showcase lands at Roxy NYC on January 18, featuring videos from Destroy Lonely, Ken Carson, WorldpeaceDMT, Ninajirachi, Geese, Cooper B Handy, Porches, Miss Madeline, and more. It is a rare chance to see internet-native music visuals projected full-size, loud, and communal, rather than as tiny scroll boxes on a phone.
🍿 Netflix wants to cut movies’ theatrical runs in half
A circulating claim suggests Netflix plans to cap Warner Bros. theatrical runs at 17 days following its acquisition. Many online see the move as an attempt to slowly undermine theaters altogether. With the average movie run lasting 30 to 45 days, critics argue this cut would relegate theaters to a brief promotional stop, siphoning attention from real films, ultimately fueling the churn of Netflix slop.
🖼️ NYC exhibits to see this month
Don’t miss Anders Davidsen’s Gråbynkens Ordat Grimm, Jeff Koons’ Porcelain Series at Gagosian, Sean Scully’s Tower at Lisson, and Louise Bouregeois’s Gathering Woolat Hauser and Wirth, and Pablo Gómez Uribe’s Doña Montaña: An Unfitted Modelat Proxyco.
Headline curation and words by Mikail Haroon (@mvkail)
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From The Archive
An extra piece of content from the Welcome Archive for Magazine subscribers only.
Shibari figurines by the abandoned brand Constant Heaven
Constant Heaven released a set of the figurines depicting bound human forms posed in restrained, static positions, documented through product images and social reposts before the brand went inactive.
The figures resemble small sculptural dolls or statuettes, shown with glossy pale surfaces, physical rope bindings, and occasional wooden elements.
The Polymarket insider trading pattern here is fascianting because prediction markets were supposed to aggregate information efficiently, not create new arbitrage channels for people with advance knowledg. When someone turns 30k into 500k with four bets timed perfectly around policy annoucements, it stops being prediction and starts being extraction. I've seen this dynamic in finance where information asymetry becomes the actual product being traded rather than the underlying asset.