Tom Sachs via the NY Times
Ahead of 2 major NY shows, Tom Sachs as resourceful iconoclast [NYTimes]
Auction houses prune pipeline amidst ‘correction’ [WSJ]
Craig Robins’s free art school set to help Miami compete [NYMag]
Christie’s Dubai sale: $2.84M record for Middle East artist [Bloomberg]
More Julian Schnabel art & commerce: a Mastercard contest [C-monster via Art fag city]
A talk with famed German artist Anselm Kiefer [Guardian.co.uk]
Awake via White Cube
From April 23 until May 24, White Cube gallery in London will feature Gregory Crewdson‘s exhibition of photographs. Crewdson’s pictures are related to the lives of families in small towns of America . His shots are not always a rosy picture of the “American Dream”.
White Cube gallery
Gregory Crewdson: what dark secrets does this picture hold?
Damien Hirst and the skull via the age
Hirst’s $100M diamond skull cancelled at Hermitage[Financial Times]
New Museum: “freeze-dried packet of desiccated minimalism” [Arts Journal]
Rome mayor to tear down museum designed by Richard Meier? [NY Times]
Artistic Director of Art Basel steps down [Bloomberg]
Public art illuminates Fifth Avenue [NY Sun]
Image via The Business of Art
The art dealing hedge fund SageCrest II is forced to bail itself out with a $650 million loan from Fortress Investment Group. This recent development only adds to the controversy surrounding the seven year-old private investment firm which has been accused of fraudulent auctions and has suffered severely low returns on investments.
“The Murky World of Art Finance” via Financial Times
“Art and the Deal” via The New York Post
Fortress Investment Group
SageCrest II
Berry-Hill Galleries
Josef Albers, Pius and Schifra, Ascona VIII, 1930, via albers foundation
From May 1 to June 14, the Gering & López Gallery will be presenting Dan Flavin and Josef Albers’s work in the medium of light and canvas. In a unique paring, both artists will present their works which touch on color theory and line concepts.
Gering & López Gallery
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Dan Flavin And Josef Albers [Artcal]
Damien Hirst Mother and child divided via ArtKnowledge
From April 25 to July 13, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo presents the show “History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize.” It is the first exhibition at the Museum regarding the Turner Prize and gathers works from all the former recipients of the prestigious art award given in the UK.
Mori Art Museum to host exhibit of all past Turner Prize winners [Art Knowledge News]
Japan’s Mad Cow Ban Nearly Ensnares Hirst Artwork [ArtInfo]
Retrospective of the Turner Prize [Art Mori Museum]
Peter Boris and Arne Glimcher of PaceWildenstein, Richard Gluckman and Leng Lin via the New York Times
The New York based gallery PaceWildenstein will open a new space in Beijing this summer. There are soft openings in May but the main opening is scheduled to correspond with the summer Olympics.
Amid Asian Art Boom, Manhattan Gallery to Open Branch in Beijing [New York Times]
PaceWildenstein To Open in Beijing [NY Sun]
PaceWildenstein to Open Branch in Beijing. [ArtInfo]
PaceWildenstein gallery
Gagosian Gallery via the New York Times
On artists trading up galleries [NY Times]
Will the Whitney branch out overseas? [NY Mag]
The “masterpiece effect:” 40% of old master works at Christie’s NY fail to sell [Financial Times]
Multimillion dollar art fabricators to the likes of Jeff Koons [NY Times]
Gallerist, former Deitch Projects director James Fuentes’s gallery/home [Time Out NY]
What happens to ‘buy-ins:’ the standard 20-30% of lots that don’t sell at auction [WSJ]
Haring’s mural on Houston and Bowery via Deitch Projects
To celebrate the 50th birthday of the artist Keith Haring, who died of AIDS in 1990, Deitch Projects and the Keith Haring Foundation hired artists to re-create the artist’s mural work from the original.
“Keith Haring Mural to Be Recreated on the Bowery” [ArtInfo]
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“A Keith Haring Mural to Be Recreated (in Day-Glo, of Course)” [NY Times]
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“Keith Haring Tribute on East Houston” [Gothamist]
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“A Downtown Icon Is Re-Created” [NY Sun]
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Keith Haring: Houston Street and Bowery Mural [Deitch Project]
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Keith Haring’s foundation [Keith Haring Foundation]
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping via the Guardian.co.uk
Next month, Christie’s will auction in New York the painting “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” by the British artist Lucian Freud. The work was painted in 1995 when Sue Tilley, the subject of the painting, agreed to pose naked for the artist in exchange for a $40 fee.
“Her pounds could make millions” [NY Times]
“It’s lovely, says benefits supervisor whose portrait is set to sell for £17m” [Guardian.co.uk]
“Freud painting ‘will set record” [BBC news]
“Christie’s eyes record with Lucian Freud picture” [Reuters]
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping [Christie’s]
Christie’s Announces Postwar Lineup [NY Sun]
The Art Bunker, Berlin via Wall Street Journal
8 Story Berlin bunker retrofitted for artwork [Wall Street Journal]
Fingerprints validating Jackson Pollock painting fraudulent [NY Post]
Art Cologne had 55K visitors, down from 70K in 2006 [Bloomberg]
NYC Museum staff ‘hidden treasures’ picks [New York Times]
Hirst and Koons sanctioned $30 art tshirts for sale [Gawker]
That whole Yale thing: abortion-art-hoax-controversy here, here, here, and here. [NYTimes, Yale Daily News, LATimes, Wall Street Journal]
Salander’s son Jonah tries to block a photographer via Portofolio
Salander ordered to cede control of finances by trustee [NY Times]
Update: Salander lists homes to pay creditors [Wall Street Journal]
Update: a Portfolio summary of the Salander fraud affair [Portofolio]
NYC officials cite graffiti’s rise in legitimacy as art as cause for recent surge [NY Post]
Moscow’s first foreigner-owned gallery [Artinfo]
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]
Daniel Richter via David Zwirner Gallery
David Zwirner presents the work of German artist Daniel Richter from March 25, until May 3rd. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery and will feature a selection of paintings and works on paper.
Daniel Richter: Die Idealisten / David Zwirner, New York [Vernissage TV]
“Raw & Impetuous” [NY Sun]
Katherine Bernhardt via ArtObserved
Katherine Bernhardt’s bold collection of work, which opened last night at CANADA Gallery in New York, celebrates her canvas-chronicled love affairs with fashion and music celebrities known to the masses by their now infamous monikers. Bernhardt captures her favorite bold-faced names in vibrant colors and fresh, graphic strokes that allow her audience to see the stars that are “Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Kanye, George & Simon” in striking and fanciful new light.
Katherine Bernhardt at CANADA [CANADA Gallery]
Bernhardt in Studio [V Magazine]
Katherine Bernhardt at Saatchi Gallery UK [Saatchi Gallery]
Critics Picks of The Armory Show [NYMag]
Bernhardt’s Artist Rank [ArtFacts.Net]
Nearby Restaurants & Bars [Time Out New York]
Benhardt at Patricia Low Contemporary [GSTAAD Life]
Bernhardt’s Artist Playlist [WPS1 MoMA]
Lowman and Colen’s, Wet Pain, at Maccarone via NY mag
A critique of Dan Colen and Nate Lowman at Maccarone [NY mag]
Supreme launches Marilyn Minter skate decks [Supertouch]
Collector/Art in America owner Peter Brant’s supermodel wife editor of Warhol’s Interview [Sassybella]
Antwerp’s low profile art gallery gems [NY Times]
Sotheby’s Previews $30 million of contemporary art in an upscale Russian mall [Bloomberg]
Update: Murakami as a capitalist in Brooklyn [The Economist]
Jeff Koons balloon dog via the NY Times
From the Aril 22nd until almost November, the Met will display a significant exhibition of major works by Jeff Koons entitled “Jeff Koons on the Roof.” The roof provides a dramatic view of Central Park and Manhattan.
“A Panoramic Backdrop for Meaning and Mischief” [NY Times]
“Jeff Koons invades the MET!” [BlackBook media]
“Up on the Roof with Jeff Koons: Come for the Sculptures, Stay for the Specialty Drinks!” [Media Bistro]
“No puppy love for Jeff Koons” [NY Sun]
“Divine love and candied sentiment” [Financial Times]
Banksy’s graffiti in London via Supertouch
Banksy’s possibly largest most brazen, work to date [Supertouch]
Update: Murakami’s superflat: “epidemic wanderlust produced by psycho-socio-sexual binarism”[NYObserver]
Update: Rothko kin successfully transfer his remains [NY Times]
“The New York canon” from Acconi to Warhol [New York mag]
Painter Ross Bleckner to write a memoir [Daily news]
Whitney Biennial annex at Henri Bendel window [Artnet]
Centre Pompidou cancels Calder exhibition due to lack of funds [Art NewsPaper]
Take Your Time at MoMA via NY Times
This weekend, the much- anticipated Olafur Eliasson exhibition, “Take Your Time,” opened in New York at both the Museum of Modern Art and its contemporary art outpost in Queens, P.S.1. The comprehensive survey of Eliasson’s work — his first retrospective in the United States– features sculpture, photographs, and installations described as “immersive environments.” The artist has also teamed up with the Public Art Fund to construct waterfalls that will be seen in the East River this summer.
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson [MoMA]
Take Your Time at P.S.1 [P.S. 1]
Stand Still; A Spectacle Will Happen[NY Times]
Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Eliasson’s Illusion Act at MoMA, P.S.1 [Bloomberg]
In Brilliant Color [NY Sun]
Waterfalls as Art To Be Installed in East River[NY Sun]
Seeing Things[New Yorker]
Northern lights [Art in America]
MoMA and P.S.1 presents Take your time: Olafur Eliasson [Artipedia]
“Eliasson in the Hands of Viewers at MoMA” [NY Sun]
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Cindy Sherman via sunwalked
Sherman’s well known self-portraits address, among other themes, gendered roles and their relation to the ways in which society views them. The artist’s mercurial persona in her work and her often noted reclusive manner keep her enigmantic. A new documentary however, Guest of Cindy Sherman portrays the ever-elusive artist in a more intimate light.
Art Films at Tribeca Film Festival [Artnet News]
Guest of Cindy Sherman produced by FilmLike NYC [FilmLike]
Guest of Cindy Sherman at Tribeca Film Festival [Tribeca Film Festival]
Cindy Sherman’s interview regarding the late 70’s period [New York mag]
Richard Pettibone via the NYmag
From April 11 until May, 23 Leo Castelli gallery features Richard Pettibone’s new exhibition based on Andy Warhol’s works. The show is called “paintings of sculptures.” The painter had previously completed works Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe as well as his little electric chair. The show suggests appropriation themes such as Richard Prince’s using photography by another artist for his own works.
Pettibone’s exhibition [NY mag]
“Paintings of sculptures” [Leo Castelli]
A Fabergé silver via Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s two-day sale of Russian Art from the 19th and 20th century in New York totaled $46,449,401. The two-day auction (April 15 & 16) had very good indicators for a big sucess. The positive result demonstrates that rich Russians and Ukrainians are willing to pay top dollar for artworks of their country. About 69% of the 191 pre-World War II lots were sold and six paintings fetched more than $1 million each. Most buyers were Russian, Ukrainians, as well as U.S.
Russian Art via Sotheby’s [Rian]
Auctions at Sotheby’s [Bloomberg]
Sotheby’s [Sotheby’s]
Auction’s record at Sotheby’s [Rian]
John Currin with recent work, via New Yorker
From April 2nd until May 10th, the Sadie Coles Gallery in London is features a new group of paintings by John Currin. The subject matter ranges from the domestic to erotic. Many notables attended the opening, among them were Alexander McQueen, Jake Chapman, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans, Hugh Grant, Mick Jagger, L’Wren Scott and Lucian Freud.
John Currin Exhibition [Sadie Coles HQ]
Currin’s nudes can’t shock the British [Guardian UK]
The filth and fury of Currin’s new work [Independent UK]
Sotheby’s chart via Yahoo finance
A possible harbinger of art market weakness, Sotheby’s stock has dropped in the past six months with relative consistency, and at this point the stock is down over 50%.
Sotheby’s stock [Yahoo Finance]
Sotheby’s affected by the economic crisis [Wall Street Journal]
