Creative Time will launch its online news magazine this month called Creative Time Reports. With a focus on artist-written articles from global sources, the nonprofit says that “whether addressing elections or climate change, censorship or immigration, Creative Time Reports believes artists have the power to inspire and encourage a more engaged and informed public”. (more…)
A Damien Hirst sculpture called Verity may not be universally well-received in a seaside town in Devon, The Telegraph reports. The sculpture is a 70-foot tall bronze statue of a nude pregnant woman with a sword. The work, loaned by Hirst, is due to be installed permanently on Oct 17-18th, although the city council has received over 100 complaints from residents, saying it is “obscene and disgusting.” (more…)
Image: Frieze London Courtesy Frieze
Exhibitors are gearing up for the tenth edition of Frieze London, which takes place in London’s Regent’s Park from October 11–14th. The fair kicks off with a vernissage on the evening of Wednesday, October 10th, once again housed in a temporary structure designed by architects Carmody Groarke.
Although mostly composed of UK and US galleries (almost exclusively from London and New York) account for 45% of the main fair, fair organizers are broadening the scope this year, with new sections and exhibitors from 35 countries, making it the most international event to date organized by Frieze.
Image: Mona Hatoum, KAPANCIK, 2012 Courtesy White Cube Gallery
Private Equity billionaire Leon Black has acquired publisher Phaidon from Richard Schlagman for an undisclosed sum. Black is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, an art collector and philanthropist. He paid $120 million for Edvard Munch’s The Scream at auction earlier this year. He also contributed $48 million to Dartmouth College, his alma mater, for the creation of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. (more…)
Image: A gallery worker walks past Seagram murals by Mark Rothko in London via Reuters
Following the incident of the Rothko painting that was defaced yesterday, the estate of Mark Rothko expressed its confidence in the Tate. Reuters spoke to the suspect, providing additional details on possible motive:
Image: Vladimir Umanets via The Times of London
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Image: The vandalized section of a Mark Rothko Seagram mural painting at The Tate Modern
A Mark Rothko painting was vandalized at the Tate Modern on October 7th, said the museum. The piece in question was a Seagram mural, one of a series of works commissioned by New York’s Four Seasons restaurant in 1958-9; the series was one of Rothko’s most important and meaningful projects.
Image: The painting that was defaced – Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/DACS 1998
Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art will open to the public tomorrow with exhibitions of the work of David Altmejd, David Hammons, Katherina Grosse and Gordon Matta-Clark. The director of the museum is Jill Snyder. The architect, Farshid Moussavi, designed the building to change depending on conditions of light and atmosphere. “MOCA Cleveland isn’t a grand museum with a historical collection; it’s all about temporary exhibitions, which change constantly—so does contemporary art, and so should the architecture.” (more…)
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…)
Sotheby’s has several high-profile works being offered in its November sales. Works from the Embiricos estate are expected to bring $30 million; among them Francis Bacon‘s “Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne” has a presale estimate of $9 – $12 million. Picasso‘s “Nature Morte aux Tulipes” from 1932 is being offered from a separate unidentified “important private collection” at $35-50 million, under an irrevocable bid. (more…)
Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso’s grandson, announced that the Picasso heirs have consolidated authentication efforts in the formation of an organization under the direction of Claude Ruiz-Picasso. Previously, due to the large number of Picasso’s heirs, authentication was difficult. The Picasso Administration is based in Paris. (more…)
Image: Eleanor Antin – 100 Boots Facing the Sea, Del Mar, California. February 9, 1971, 2:00 p.m. (1971-1973), via Brooklyn Museum
In 1973, art critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a defining book that catalogued and described the emerging field of conceptual art during the years 1967-1972. Widely read and referenced as a fundamental exploration into Conceptual Art and the new aesthetic vocabulary that it contributed to the artistic lexicon, Lippard’s book has become an iconic document in the shifting artistic focuses of the 20th and 21st century.
The Brooklyn Museum has opened the door for a new reading of Lippard’s fundamental text, assembling a a vast array of artists championed in her writing. The exhibition provides a vantage point for understanding how Lippard’s perceptive thesis opened the door to new approaches in curating, engagement and criticism.
Austrian art dealer Thaddaeus Ropac is interviewed in the Financial Times, and speaks of his new 4,700 sq meter space in Pantin, Northeast Paris. “You have to create the market for monumental works but that gives me a kick. Today you are defined by your square-footage”. Anselm Kiefer, ‘Die Ungeborenen’ (The Unborn) will open at the space on October 14th. (more…)
Image: Alex Katz, White Roses I, 2011, courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery
Now in its final week at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London is a new series of portraits and still lifes by 84-year-old American artist Alex Katz. The exhibition is comprised of large-scale portraits of family and friends and still lifes of flowers that he bought from street vendors near his New York studio.
Image: Installation view, courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery
The now-defunct Knoedler & Co. gallery agreed to settle the lawsuit over an allegedly fake $17 million Jackson Pollock. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed. Pierre Lagrange, co-owner of London-based GLG Partners Inc., sued in 2011 over a the painting, Untitled 1950, because neither Sotheby’s or Christie’s would consign the work without its prior inclusion in the catalogue raisonné. The gallery, which had been in business since 1846, closed the day after the lawsuit was filed. (more…)
White Cube announced that it will close its East London Hoxton location (established 2000) at the end of 2012. The gallery plans to focus on the Mason’s Yard, Mayfair and the Bermondsey Street locations. The gallery says that “no decision had been taken on the future of the former industrial building.” (more…)
Hauser & Wirth announced that the opening date for its Chelsea location will be January 22, 2013 in the former Roxy building at 511 West 18th Street. The new space is 24,700 square feet of warehouse style exhibition space. The public opening will culminate a year of activities celebrating the gallery’s 20th anniversary. (more…)
Another modern and contemporary fair is being formed: ArtInternational Istanbul, which is due to open in September 2013. The organizer is Sandy Angus, co-founder of ArtHK. (The parent company of Art Basel and Miami Basel owns a 60% stake in Art HK). It will be in Istanbul’s Hasköy Yarn Factory in the central Beyoglu district, coinciding with the Istanbul Biennial and running concurrently with the Istanbul Contemporary fair. (more…)
Image: Rita Ackermann, Fire By Days: The Fool I, 2012, oil on canvas
All images courtesy Hauser & Wirth Gallery
On view at Hauser and Wirth’s London Picadilly space is the exhibition entitled Fire By Days, Rita Ackermann’s latest series by the same name.
It is comprised of three miniseries: Fire by Days, Fire by Days Blues and Fire by Days The Fool. The first two contain numerous diptychs that have been created by initially pressing the works together to form a ‘reflective pair’ but then working each piece separately yet simultaneously to distort the reflective essence of the duos.
Image: Installation view, Gerhard Richter, PAINTING 2012, Marian Goodman Gallery. All photos by Maya Steward unless otherwise noted.
“The status of painting in [Richter’s] new works is figured as exceptionally fragile, yet it is powerfully formulated in its assimilation to its technological challenges, as though painting was once again on the wane under the impact of technological innovations,” writes Benjamin H.D. Buchloch of Gerhard Richter’s new works on view in the exhibition PAINTING 2012 at Marian Goodman Gallery. Working within the realm of digital imaging, Richter redefines the concept of painting once again, challenging the traditional application and boldly ascertaining both its methods and practice.
Video artist and photographer Alex Prager has won an Emmy for news and documentary for directing the mini-scenes for The New York Times Magazine’s feature, “Touch of Evil”. The print version was edited by Hugo Lindgren and Adam Sternbergh, in consultation with A.O. Scott, who also wrote the introduction. Prager is self-taught, often referencing pulp fiction masters and fashion photography in her work. (more…)
Vanity Fair and Cadillac have commissioned artist Barry McGee to create a mural for the Mark Morris Dance Center in Fort Greene, which has just been completed. The untitled 96 x 67-foot piece is part of its “Art in the Streets” program, and took ten days start to finish. It will be featured in the December issue of Vanity Fair.
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Image: Installation view of Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes.
All images courtesy The Pace Gallery unless otherwise noted
The Pace Gallery opens its new London flagship gallery on Thursday, October 4th at No. 6 Burlington Gardens in the Royal Academy building. On view will be an exhibition of the work of Mark Rothko and Hiroshi Sugimoto entitled Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes. It will be the first private gallery exhibition of Rothko’s work in London in nearly fifty years.
Image: Installation view of Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced that Ari Emanuel, Hollywood power agent and broker, has been elected to its board. The museum also re-elected Maurice Marciano, art collector and founder of the Guess clothing brand. Mr. Emanuel is co-chief executive of the William Morris Endeavor agency and is involved with arts nonprofits, although he is not known to be an art collector. (more…)
Uta Barth, An-My Lê and filmmaker Natalia Almada have been named 2012 MacArthur fellows. Each artist will receive $500,000 over the next five years, with no restrictions on its use. Uta Barth is a conceptual artist whose work deals with the photographic perception and the subject’s relation to the image-making process. (more…)
