Yoko Ono at Tate Modern
“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind” exhibition at Tate Modern, is on until September 1st and is an expansive journey through Yoko Ono’s artistic legacy, blending music, installations, photography, and interactive performance art. This landmark showcase, the UK’s most extensive collection of Ono’s work, spans her groundbreaking contributions from the early 1950s to today, highlighting her role as a pioneer in avant-garde art circles worldwide.
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Koons at Skarstedt
From 1st March to 25th May 2024, Skarstedt’s London Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring the work of American artist Jeff Koons. The show includes five mural-sized paintings crafted between 2001 and 2013 drawn from Koons’ series: Easyfun-Ethereal, Antiquity, and Popeye.
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Tomas Saraceno at Tanya Bonakdar
At Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles, “Live(s) on Air” is on from February 24 to May 4, 2024, featuring new works by Tomás Saraceno. This exhibit explores the theme of eco-social interdependence with a collection that includes sculpture, works on paper, and film. It aims to engage viewers in thinking about the impact of humans on the environment and paths toward coexistence on Earth.
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Collector’s Birthdate: (Foundation) b. 1993
Harvey S. Shipley Miller is sole trustee of The Judith Rothschild Foundation, created by the will of abstract painter Judith Rothschild who died in 1993. Her will dictates that all resources and assets have to be dedicated to its approved mission and that within 25 years of her death, all assets must be used and distributed, having completed the foundation’s aims the best of its abilities.
In 2003, the foundation spent more than $7 million to build a Contemporary collection featuring works by more than 400 artists, including classic artist Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly and Gerhard Richter as well as newcomers Christian Holstad and Hernan Bas.
Projects undertaken by the foundation include The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, which showed at the MoMA as “one of the most definitive collections of the work in the world,” according to Miller. The foundation also gave the Jacques Villon print collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is currently compiling its third major collection, (to be titled The Judith Rothschild Foundation of Contemporary Drawings Collection) for the MoMA.
Important works owned by the foundation include Douglas Gordon’s “always and forever”, Peter Doig’s “Country Rock Version” and Raymond Pettibon’s “Untitled (Acid Got Me Fired…)”.
Says Miller of the drawing collection: “The final, undiscounted value for insurance purposes would be somewhere between $50 and $70 million. Gary Garrels has said it’s the greatest collection, public or private, of Contemporary drawings in the world, but it’s miraculous because there are things that one couldn’t get again.”
Lindemann, Adam. Collecting Contemporary: Los Angeles, Taschen GmbH 2006.
