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Monday, September 17th, 2012

Linda Yablonsky discusses art curation on the set of Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon’s new movie, Arbitrage, in which works by several contemporary artists including Ryan McGinley, Donald Baechler, Marilyn MinterAdam McEwen and Huma Bhaba, make an appearance.  Gere plays a hedge-fund mogul art collector. The filmmakers focused on believability: in addition to choosing the building which was a former home of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the film borrowed work from Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn of Salon 94 Gallery and others.  (more…)