19Jim Condon gathered the artists and guests around the masked women.
Cecil’s competitors looked to be his opposites in every way. They wore black army boots for the war on microaggressions. Their hair looked “undone,” but they spent two hours a day gelling it to a spiky point. And they smoked cigarettes while wearing plastic “Stop Climate Change” pins.
And then there was Cecil—with his white-male-of-privilege haircut and NYPD sweatshirt. He was the enemy.
“To my right, we have George Cassimatis the Fifth. He’s the son of George and Hilda Cassimatis. And he is the ArtBlock Prize winner, the Berlin Review Art of the Year winner, and his art is featured in the Chelsea Gallery.”
The guests quietly applauded, fingertips tapping their wineglasses. Cecil’s heartrate ratcheted up to meet the
