William Wegman "About Four Thirty" and "The Architect, photo: 20 x 200
Art fairs aren’t the only way to move quantities of art.
Dealer and technology impresario Jen Bekman, whose 20 x 200 website markets affordable prints, sold over $100,000 worth of work by William Wegman on Feb. 3. Today she sold 220 prints by artist William Powhida–in two hours.
Bekman has recently begun collaborating with more established artists on her virtual gallery. The website, founded in 2007, is best known for marketing images by young and mid-career names. (Bekman also…
Hirst's "The Golden Jubilee (Green)" 2008, oil on canvas, via Gagosian
Damien Hirst’s recession priced $300,000 photo-realist paintings of giant gemstones are selling swiftly at Gagosian’s Madison Avenue outpost.
Publicity photograph of actual "Golden Jubilee" diamond, owned by Thailand
The series, titled The Golden Jubilee, doesn’t have the most original composition. Like Warhol’s soup cans, Hirst has appropriated the title and aesthetic from a famous gemstone, a 545 carat caramel-hued diamond, reported to be the largest facet cut diamond in the world. The namesake stone is part of…
Amy Gold, via Christie's
After a decade at Christie’s, Amy Gold has joined L & M Arts as a Senior Director, according to a gallery press release. She joins partners Dominque Levy and Robert Mnuchin at L & M as the gallery expands this year with the fall opening of a Los Angeles branch. L & M operates from a townhouse on East 78th Street, where the gallery handles both primary and secondary market sales.
Gold rose steadily through Christie’s ranks. She was initially based in Chicago and served as…
Knoedler, via Bloomberg News
Link to story here.
By Lindsay Pollock
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — For a sedate gallery housed almost 40 years in an imposing Renaissance-style mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, Knoedler & Co. has seen a lot of activity recently.
Director and president Ann Freedman has departed, the associate director has been fired and there’s been an exodus of important gallery artists.
Meanwhile, owner Michael A. Hammer has announced that he might move Knoedler into the hip Chelsea and Meatpacking areas.
Hammer, president and chairman of 8-31 Holdings,…
Vessels by Japanese ceramic artist Yoshikawa Masamichi, via Joan Mirviss
With the 2009 demise of the International Asian Art Fair, 29 Asian art dealers have joined forces to exhibit during the March Asia Week. The international roster of dealers will mount 29 gallery shows, running March 20-28. Participating dealers hail from the U.S., England, France, Italy and Japan. Last year 16 dealers took part in a similar effort.
With the recession-driven contraction of international art fairs, art dealers are increasingly organizing their own events. The annual Asia Week is timed to coincide with the major…
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…
Las Vegas CityCenter
Art adviser Michele C. Quinn, who helped bring contemporary art to the Las Vegas strip, is moving to Philadelphia next year, while maintaining her Vegas business.
For the past four years Quinn oversaw the development of a $40m art collection for the CityCenter Fine Art Collection, part of a new 67-acre hotel and residential real estate development project opening Dec. 16.
CityCenter was constructed at a cost of $8.5b, reportedly the largest privately funded construction project in the U.S. and a joint venture between MGM Mirage and Dubai…
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,…
This just in from Ann Freedman, who recently resigned as Knoedler’s President and Director after 32 years at the gallery (previous post here):
“November 11, 2009
I am writing to express my thanks to those of you who have thoughtfully called and sent letters to me at Knoedler. I have not been receiving them, so I’m sorry that I have not been able to reply.
I wish to dispel a rumor now circulating that is personally upsetting. My resignation from Knoedler is not due to a recurrence of my lung cancer. This hopefully may answer…
Amid fears that the end of 2009 will bring another wave of gallery closures, Chelsea dealers are finding ways to cut costs.
ATM and Freight and Volume have announced an “alliance.” They will be operating from 542 West 24th Street (ATM is moving into Freight and Volume’s digs) to “consolidate our talents and reach an even broader audiences,” according to an email from ATM gallery.
ATM was located at 621 W. 27th Street.
The galleries will continue to present separate exhibitions in one venue. ATM is to be renamed ATM-Bill Brady.
