Lehmann Maupin Gallery has announced that it will open in Hong Kong’s Pedder Building in early spring 2013. Although the gallery has a strong stable of Asian artists, it plans to show work by Western artists in the new location as well. The gallery has hired Rem Koolhaas’ OMA team to do the renovations. (more…)
George Michael via TelegraphUK
At Frieze, George Michael and partner annouce plans for 10,000 sf Dallas space for $200 million in British contemporary art [FirstPost]
Emily Rauh Pulitzer gives $45 million for Harvard’s collection, as well as 31 works, incuding Picasso, Modigliani, and Giacometti valued at an additional $200 million [Boston Globe]
Jackie Wullschlager summarizes 20 years following Damien Hirst’s curated “Freeze” show of YBA ‘s [FinancialTimes]
Two new London outposts for existing galleries: Yvon Lambert across from White Cube and Pilar Corrias in Rem Koolhaas-designed space in Fitzorivia [ArtReview.com]
A Fernando Botero video interview on his Circus series, and part two here [Vernissage]
In new Moscow Museum of Modern Art branch, Sotheby’s previews 50 20th-century works, including Bacon, Warhol and Picasso to be sold for estimated $200 to $300 million in New York in November [The Moscow Times] more on that, and Christie’s Moscow previews, here [NYTimes]
Image via Hint Fashion Magazine
The Prada Foundation, in collaboration with Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), led by Rem Koolhaas revealed their plans to transform their current building into a more organic, sophisticated, modern complex. Their joint venture was announced at the annual Milan Fair.
Prada/OMA collaboration [Wallpaper]
The New Prada Foundation Revealed [Hint Fashion Magazine]
Miuccia Prada as global patron of the arts [Art Observed]
Koolhaas to design Prada Museum [Art Newspaper]
The Hermitage Guggenheim museum in Vegas via Las Vegas Sun
The Hermitage Guggenheim Museum, a scion of the New York-based Guggenheim Museum and the St. Petersburg-based State Hermitage Museum, will close next month. The gallery space, designed by Rem Koolhaas, was based in the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and was met with some success when it opened.
Hermitage guggenheim Museum will close next month [Bloomberg]
Guggenheim Museum in Vegas will close after seven years of residency [ArtDaily]
The Guggenheim museum in Vegas will close in May [Las Vegas Sun via C-Monster]
Guggenheim hermitage will close in less than one month [ArtForum]
Staying in Vegas? Not the Guggenheim [LATimes]
