Artist Sterling Ruby at Pace Wildstein's "2Traps," on opening night. photo: Lindsay Pollock
On Thursday night Sterling Ruby’s first show with dealer Pace Wildenstein opened on West 22nd Street. The LA based artist’s “2Traps” comprises a pair of ominous metal sculptures. One is a modified metal bus, outfitted with woofers and solitary confinement cages. The second piece, “Pig Pen,” is made from metal security doors of a type found in the roughest of neighborhoods.
Collectors Michael Ovitz and Adam Lindemann, architect David Adjaye and Pace artists Chuck Close, Tara Donovan and Tim Eitel…
Eli Broad, via Forbes
A new repository for information on American collectors, dealers and other market makers is now available courtesy of The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting in America, which has launched an online database.
The Archives Directory currently includes 1500 names, including information on Pop collectors Ethel and Robert Scull, financier David Rockefeller, Old Master merchants Duveen Brothers, and Eli Broad.
The site is an ongoing project, according to manager Samantha Deutch, who is preparing the next tranche of 1500 names.
Currently missing are many contemporary…
The Art Newspaper
Most people glaze over the confusing array of microscopic auction catalog symbols.
A year after Sotheby’s introduced a third party guarantee or irrevocable bid symbol, I spoke with Sotheby’s Mitchell Zuckerman, Christie’s Marc Porter, art lawyer Ralph Lerner and dealer William Acquavella to find out how these deals really work.
My article in the the January, 2010 issue of The Art Newspaper can be found here.
The March 3-7 Armory Show includes a 285 exhibitors, with considerable turnover among the 211 dealers in contemporary section. A post about galleries who dropped out of the fair is here.
Overall in the contemporary section, 92 dealers will be presenting in 2010 who didn’t participate in 2009. Sixty-five of them are first time exhibitors at the fair.
Some of the newcomers are so new, they had websites still under construction.
Here is the list of new exhibitors. First-timers are indicated with a star. Others on the list below didn’t take part in 2009, but were in the…
- via Art We Love
In a uncertain season for dealers and fair organizers, fifty-four contemporary exhibitors from the Armory Show’s 2009 edition won’t be returning for the upcoming March 3-7 edition.
Chelsea strongholds who are not returning include Marianne Boesky, Tanya Bonakdar, Cheim & Read, Anton Kern and Mitchell-Innes & Nash. London’s Timothy Taylor is also out, as are a number of non-profits who had previously taken part…
Knoedler and Co. Upper East Side townhouse
After nearly forty years in a landmark 1909 townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Knoedler & Company has listed the property with Sotheby’s Realty, tagged $59.5 million.
Knoedler via Sotheby's
The Renaissance-inspired building at 19 East 70th Street includes a ground-floor portico and two-story library. The property was listed for sale on Dec. 17, according to the real estate website Property Shark. Sotheby’s broker Eva Mohr confirmed she had been hired to sell the building. Knoedler is located on…
Tony Shafrazi and Steve Cohen at Art Basel Miami Beach, via Shala
Shala Monroque, a fashionista blessed with perfect bone structure and sartorial flare, attended Art Basel Miami Beach with art dealer boyfriend Larry Gagosian.
Luckily for us, she posted some excellent pics on her blog, including a Dec. 5 section titled “What Happens in Miami Does Not Stay in Miami.”
Shala captures dealer Tony Shafrazi faux-strangling hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, as an amused Gagosian and billionaire Eli Broad –eye-brows raised–look on. Shala’s witty caption reads…
Larry Gagosian on Art Abu Dhabi Panel
The fifty-dealer strong Abu Dhabi Art fair was dominated on Friday afternoon by back-to-back panels on collecting and museum creation. The NYU Abu Dhabi panel, “Collecting Today,” attracted an overflow crowd and featured the usually elusive Larry Gagosian, Dubai-based collector Farhad Farjam and the executive director of the Qatar Museum Authority, Roger Mandle.
NYU’s Mariet Westermann moderated the two-hour event, noting “collecting offers a form of insurance against the destructive march of time.”
While the discussion was evenly spread among all the speakers, this…
Warhol's 1966 portrait of Holly Solomon
Art dealer Holly Solomon’s papers, including 220 boxes of materials tracing her involvement with Manhattan’s cultural scene from the 1970s-1990s, have been donated to the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Solomon died in 2002 at the age of 68.
The trove includes letters between Solomon and artists Gordon Matta-Clark, William Wegman and others. The material is being processed and will be available to researchers and others, with written permission from her sons.
The Solomon collection includes gallery announcements, exhibition catalogs and audio visual materials, according to Jason Stieber,…
Salander's Millbrook estate
Bloomberg’s Philip Boroff treks to Millbrook to tour arrested art dealer Larry Salander’s 66-acre spread, which includes “a painting studio, indoor gym, outdoor pool, cement tennis court, miniature baseball diamond and garages for nine cars,” according to Boroff’s article. Camp Larry will be auctioned off on Monday to the highest bidder.
Building on Millbrook estate
So far interest has been minimal, according to the article. There is a bid from a man who seems to be Larry’s most ardent supporter: Florida money manager Michael Lewitt. Lewitt’s partnership…
