White Cube announced that it will open a gallery space in São Paulo, Brazil. The gallery says it will be a 3-year commitment for now, adding its second international location outside of the UK (it recently opened a second international space in Hong Kong). The gallery will host a solo show of work by Tracey Emin to inaugurate the space. It will open December 1st in the Vila Mariana district of São Paulo, near the Parque Ibirapuera. (more…)
The Astrup Fearnley Museum will reopen in a new space designed by Renzo Piano in Oslo on Sept. 29th. The new site is in a newly-redeveloped waterfront area that will allow the museum to show more of its permanent collection, says the museum’s director, Gunnar Kvaran. The first show, “To Be With Art Is All We Ask”, will include works owned by the museum with pieces by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman, among others. (more…)
NADA announces its exhibitor list for Miami, marking ten years of participation. The fair will take place December 6th through December 9th, 2012 at the Deauville Beach Resort. Exhibitors represent 25 cities from 14 different countries. This year’s fair includes over 60 international galleries with 22 first-time-exhibitors at NADA Miami Beach. “NADA is very proud to be celebrating its tenth anniversary in Miami Beach,” said Director Heather Hubbs. “Each year, the fair has continued to move forward in both quality and collector support and 2012 looks to be the strongest edition to date.” (more…)
The Museum of Modern Art announced that it will open to the public every day, beginning in May 2013. The Museum’s director, Glenn Lowry, said that it was a response to growing attendance, which has almost doubled since the museum expanded eight years ago. The museum now receives up to 3 million visitors annually. (more…)
Image: Installation View, Karen Kilimnik and Kim Gordon at 303 Gallery
Currently on display at 303 Gallery is a collaborative exhibition of work by Kim Gordon (of the band Sonic Youth) and Karen Kilimnik. It is Kilimnik’s eleventh time exhibiting at 303 and Gordon’s second. Upon entering the gallery, one is submerged into a dimly lit and twinkling underworld of subculture that is examined through film, painting, performance and installation.
Cy Twombly – The Last Paintings (Exhibition View), Gagosian Gallery
In 2010, one year before his death, iconic American painter Cy Twombly completed a number of new works — primarily in green, red, orange and yellow — that would end up being the last pieces that he would complete in his lifetime. These vivid works are now being exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in London, having made their way from Los Angeles to Hong Kong to their current location.
The Royal collection has purchased four Andy Warhol screen prints of The Queen of England to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. They will be on view at Windsor Castle later this year. Warhol was famously quoted as saying: “I want to be as famous as the Queen of England.” It is part of a portfolio called “Reigning Queens” from the Royal Edition.
Jeffrey Gundlach is offering a $1.7 million reward for information that would lead to the return of artwork stolen from his Santa Monica home last week, with no questions asked. He is offering one of the largest rewards ever offered for a single piece: $1 million for a 1936 Mondrian, “Composition (A) En Rouge Et Blanc”.
Jonathan Meese will direct Wagner’s Parsifal opera in 2016 at the Bayreuth Festival. The artist who calls himself the “Dictator of Art” was invited by the Wagner sisters; Andris Nelsons is to conduct. (more…)
Image: Now I am quietly waiting… (Exhibition View), Bortolami Gallery
The long, arresting title of Tom Burr’s first show as a curator for Bortolami Gallery takes its inspiration from the poem “Mayakovsky” by Frank O’Hara. In the poem, the author delves into the nature of one’s own identity, and the relationship to other, separate, identities that surround us in our daily lives. Taking this text as a jumping off point, Tom Burr has assembled a selection of works that are interconnected by his relationships to their creators, be they personal, professional, or merely tangential.
Michael Stanley (1975-2012), director of Modern Art Oxford, has died. He was recognized for having organized innovative exhibitions and partnerships with other cultural institutions such as Ashmolean, the Old Power Station and the Radcliffe Observatory; two of these shows catapulted artists to go on to win the Turner prize. He recently received critical acclaim for his exhibition of work by Jenny Saville. (more…)
Allen R. Adler and his wife, Frances Beatty Adler, have donated $4.5 million to The Princeton Art Museum to pay for a curator of European art as well as for organization of exhibitions and research. Mr. Adler is a member of the museum’s advisory council and Mrs. Adler is vice president of the Richard L. Feigen & Co. Gallery, as well as chairwoman of The Drawing Center in Soho. (more…)
“ROMNEY HATES THE ARTS” and other messages appeared in skywriting yesterday over lower Manhattan, a project by grafitti artist Saber, to raise awareness of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s plan to cut NEA funding if elected. Using the hashtag #DefendTheArts, Saber’s circular formations filled the sky for an hour and a half yesterday afternoon, and could be seen from as far out as Nassau County.
Image: Sean Daly, Shaun Regen, Kathryn Bigelow, and John Loga via Vogue
Shaun Caley Regen opened her new location in Los Angeles last night at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, in a newly developing section of Hollywood, just east of Highland Avenue. The new space was designed by architect Michael Maltzan, creating a museum-like exhibition venue.
Image: Regen Projects’ inaugural exhibition via Regen Projects
New York Magazine senior editor Christopher Bonanos has published a new book entitled Instant: The Story of Polaroid, (Princeton Architectural Press), which will be released this week. It profiles how artists as diverse as Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams have used the the Polaroid as their medium of choice. (more…)
Alessandro Vezzosi, the director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, and the Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation will unveil what could be the Isleworth Mona Lisa in Geneva on Sept 27th. It is owned by a Swiss-based consortium, who says that the version is the first of the famous portrait. In contrast to the Louvre‘s Mona Lisa dated ca. 1503-06, this work is on canvas and some formal aspects of the composition differ. Experts will decide whether the work is from the studio of Leonardo da Vinci or a copy from the late 16th century. (more…)
A new complaint in the lawsuit against Knoedler Gallery is being brought by Domenico De Sole, chairman of Tom Ford International, and his wife, Eleanore. The defendants are Michael Hammer (chairman of the former Knoedler Gallery), Ann Freedman (a former director), and Glafira Rosales and partners (Rosales was a dealer in Sands Point, Long Island who consigned artworks to Knoedler). The plaintiffs are one of 3 parties who claim that the gallery sold fakes. The combined total of the damages being sought by the 3 groups of plaintiffs in the suit is more than $70 million. (more…)
Museum galas in Los Angeles continue to feature celebrities to bolster fund raising: The Hammer Museum has invited Katy Perry, Steve Martin and MSNBC personality Rachel Maddow to its gala on Oct. 6th. The Hammer fundraiser will honor artists Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman and it will be co-chaired by Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker. Individual seats range from $1,500 to $7,500; last year’s gala raised approximately $1.7 million. Additionally, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art gala takes place on Oct. 27th, honoring filmaker Stanley Kubrick and artist Ed Ruscha, with Steven Spielberg presenting and music by Florence and the Machine. The Museum of Contemporary Art has postponed its gala until the spring. (more…)
Image: Daniel Buren, “Le Décor et son Double”. Photo Dirk Pauwels via S.M.A.K.
In 1986, French artist Daniel Buren created an installation for the home of collectors Annick and Anton Herbert called “Le Décor et son Double”. He installed a copy of the room in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent. This second copy was recently conserved and acquired by the museum (now renamed S.M.A.K.) and is being exhibited once again.
Sotheby’s is entering into a joint venture with a Chinese auction house, Beijing GeHua Art Co., to be able to conduct business in the country. Due to government restrictions on foreign business entities, the auction house has developed a partnership with a Chinese-owned firm and will be operating out of a freeport in Bejing at the Capital International Airport. Sotheby’s will own 80% of the new company although final approval by the Chinese government has not yet been given. (more…)
Experts believe that a painting purchased eight years ago at a golf club in Kent may be a lost JMW Turner painting. Specialists will present the research at a conference on Wednesday at The Dulwich Picture Gallery. They believe it is Turner’s “Fishing Boats in a Stiff Breeze” from 1805. An art fund investor saw it and bought it for £3,700; the new research puts the value at around £20 million. (more…)
Auction houses have reported new consignments for November sales. Two collectors, Steven A. Cohen and Douglas S. Cramer, will be consigning works for the November 14 auctions at Christies. Sotheby’s announced “a seminal group of masterworks that provide a panoramic view of Abstract Expressionism” for its November 13th sale, including Mark Rothko‘s No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) from 1954 and a 1951 Jackson Pollock drip painting .
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, purchased a Rothko as part of its effort to bolster the Postwar component of the museum’s collection. The piece is a 1960 painting entitled “No. 210/No. 211 (Orange).” The work has rarely been exhibited and has been in a private European collection for roughly 50 years. (more…)
An Alberto Giacometti sculpture, once part of an installation at Phillip Johnson’s Glass House, was considered lost and has been “hiding almost in plain sight for years”. Via much research and correspondence, the show’s curator, Jordan Stein, discovered it had actually been at the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation in Paris all these years, unrestored. On Saturday, the building’s owner, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, will be honoring the 1947 sculpture, “Night”, by holding its spot and using the story of its disappearance as the inspiration for a series of temporary exhibitions in its reopening to the public. (more…)