Newslinks for Monday, December 22nd, 2008
December 22nd, 2008
The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City via panoramio.com
Mexico City opens a new 3,300 sq. m, $20 million contemporary art museum [TheArtNewspaper]
Sculptor Richard Serra awarded the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain [ArtDaily]
A Sotheby’s video offers refreshing transparency into its process in the current environment [Sotheby's]
In more video, Takashi Murakami on money and art, New York vs. Tokyo and more [TMagazine - The Moment]
And finally, video of Damien Hirst on his Statuephilia installation in London [Aarting]

Tom Sachs opens his online store [tomsachs.org via supertouch]
Gallerist/web presence Edward Winkleman announces his book ‘How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery’ [edwardwinkleman]
The Louvre finds 3 possible Leonardo Da Vinci drawings on the back of his painting [Bloomberg]

Gallerist Mellissa Bent, artist Hope Atherton and artist Georgia Sagri make the scene at Rivington Arms via ArtForum
On the closing of Lower East Side Gallery Rivington Arms [ArtForum] more on this here [NYObserver]
Similarly, the International Asian Art Fair is canceled [ArtInfo] Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami, opened in 2005, will also close [ArtLurker]

The installation entitled ‘Moscow on the Move’ via the Guardian
























































December 22nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
[...] The art industrial average is so far down the crapper it’s gonna take a Trainspotting-like move to dislodge it. And it ain’t any easier for museums. Related: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami to close. (Art Observed.) [...]
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