Hope Atherton’s “Untitled (Feathers)” 2008, Oil and Gesso on linen
via Vanina Holasek Benefit

On Monday April 7, Marc Jancou Gallery featured a Benefit for Gallerist Vanina Holasek to raise funds for her battle against cancer. More than 500, including art world figures and other notables attended the event.

Benefit for Vanina Holasek [ArtObserved]
Marc Jancou Gallery [Marc Jancou Gallery]
Benefit for Vanina Holasek official website
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A David Hockney via Times Online.

Hockney donates largest piece to the Tate [Daily Telegraph]
France loans to buyers, supports art market, competes with China [Int. Herald Tribune]
Inside Beijing’s Booming Central Academy of Fine Arts [New York Times]
“The Bather,” one of Cézanne’s greatest works [Wall Street Journal]
French film producer/director Claude Berri’s Paris art gallery in Paris designed by Jean Nouvel [ArtInfo]
MOMA lunch announces new IMPei designed Museum of Islamic art [NYMag]

Apexart presents “Lots Of Things Like This,” curated by author Dave Eggers from April 2 through May 10. The show attempts to find a unifying theme within a broad array gallery-worthy artwork that use cartoon images and text. From well known artists, literary figures and others.

Dave Eggers at Apexart [artdaily]
Gawking over Eggers’ art show [Gawker]
Apexart [Apexart gallery]

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“I know where the summer goes” via Team Gallery

New York’s Team Gallery features “I know where the summer goes,” an exhibition of Ryan McGinley’s photographic works. It is the second solo show of the artist at Team Gallery, and will be on display from April 3rd to May 3rd.

Ryan Mcginley at the Team gallery [Cool Hunting]
Exhibit official website [Team Gallery]
“I know where the summer goes” [BlackBook]

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‘The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory,’

J.M.W. Turner, 1806-8, via Tate

Tate sends 100 Turners to Moscow despite frigid diplomatic relations [ArtForum]
Update: French art market eclipsed by China [Financial Times]
Jasper Johns: Most successful artist ever? [New York Sun]
Russian artist Anna Mikhalchuk disapeared in Berlin [Artdaily]
View of Olafur Eliasson sculpture in Munich [contemporist via C-Monster]
Update: Interview of Whitney chief curator on Biennial’s process [Wall Street Journal]
Warhol’s Upper East Side townhouse for $5.99M  [New York Times]

Diane Arbus courtesy of Vanina Holasek at Marc Jancou Contemporary

Cocktails Auction Raffle, Monday, April 7th, 2008 For more information about the event, please visit www.holasekbenefit.com In order to support and help art dealer Vanina Holasek in her battle against cancer, friends and family organize tonight at Marc Jancou Gallery for a silent and a live auction.

Vanina Holasek’s Benefit at Marc Jancou Gallery [Bloomberg]
Marc Jancou [Marc Jancou Gallery] (more…)

Jeff Koon’s “Rabbit” 1/3 (1986) via Artinfo.com

Famed art dealer Ileana Sonnabend’s art collection was sold in two private transactions by her children this past week. Valued at nearly $1 billion, Sonnabend’s collection included works by artists such as Rauschenberg, Warhol, Koons, Johns, Lichtenstein and Twombly.

A Colossal Private Sale by the Heirs of a Dealer[The New York Times]
Sonnabend’s Children Part with $600 Million Worth of Art to Pay Off Estate Taxes[Art Forum]
Sonnabend’s Children Sell Most of $900 Million Collection[Bloomberg News]
Sonnabend Works Sold in Private Auction [Art Info]

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Murakami’s work via New York Times

“©Murakami,” a retrospective of 16 years of Takashi Murakami’s art, had a star-studded opening at the Brooklyn Museum of Art this Friday, after a strong showing on the West Coast.

Murakami’ s opening [Bloomberg]
Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum [New York Times]
Takashi Murakami’s opening [Supertouch]
Kanye West, Marc Jacobs at Murakami’s opening [New York Magazine]
Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn Museum]
Murakami’s opening [Wall street Journal]

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Liu Xiaodong via Mary Boone Gallery

Mary Boone Gallery hosts from March 6 until April 29, a new exhibition of the Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong. The exhibition features new paintings such as two monumental landscape paintings: “Qinghai-Tibet Railway” which is a five-panel panorama painted and “Sky Burial.” Liu Xiaodong is considered as one China’s “new generation” of figurative painting. The artist studied at the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

Liu Xiaodong’s exhibition [Mary Boone Gallery]
Liu Xiaodong studies [Herald Tribune]

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Rosson Crow, Live in the Black Pussy, 2008 via Deitch Projects

From March 29 until April 26, Deitch Projects features a group painting exhibition curated by Nicola Vassell. Works include paintings from Elizabeth Neel, Kristin Baker, Rosson Crow and Dan Colen.

Substraction at Deitch [Deitch Projects]

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Rivington Arms gallerist Mellissa Bent and Designer Elise Overland
All photos via ArtObserved

Despite the slew of parties and events to choose from in New York during Armory show weekend, the opening party for Hope Atherton’s solo exhibition at Bortolami Gallery in Chelsea on Saturday night drew a large crowd. The show, which consists of moody, large oil paintings of landscape and still- life, runs from March 29 – May 2.

Hope Atherton’s new show [Chelseaartgalleries]
Atherton’s shows [Bortolami]
Hope Atherton’s opening at Bortolami gallery [Women’s wear daily]
Hope Atherton’s show [Vind]

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Ai Weiwei’s descending light via Mary Boone Gallery

From March 8, until April, 26 2008 the Mary Boone Gallery features the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, entitled ” Illumination”.

Mary Boone Gallery [Mary Boone Gallery]
Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone [Artnet]

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Jean Nouvel via the New York Times

French architect Jean Nouvel has won the the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture’s top honor. The architect is known for many buildings globally, including the Arab World Institute (1987) in Paris, Quai Branly Museum in Paris (2006) and in New York, 40 Mercer a a 15-story iron/red-and-blue themed luxury residential property. Nouvel is also designing a satellite of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.
Jean Nouvel wins the Pritzker Prize [New York Times]
Nobel prize of architecture for Jean Nouvel [Slate]
Jean Nouvel’s honor [New York Sun] (more…)