“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]
‘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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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…)
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Gregory Crewdson via New York Magazine
Gregory Crewdson’s elaborate, freaky-suburban, cinema set works [NYMag]
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On the art pilgrimage to Judd’s Marfa, TX [Wall Street Journal]
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A Tom Otterness sculpture to Dumbo [New York Sun]
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Why Asian nations are bargain hunting Japanese Art [Herald Tribune]
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Banksy works headline U.K. regional auction [Bloomberg]
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Update: Overview of the Armory Show [Artinfo]
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Update: Warhol’s “Ten portraits of Jews of the 20th century” [NYTimes]
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Update: Armory sales hold despite economic slowdown [artnewspaper]
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An over-the-front-desk look at the “gallerinas” of Chelsea [NYTimes]
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C-Monster at the Whitney [Time Magazine]
Murakami’s Flowerball (3D) 2002 – to be shown at Brooklyn Museum via ArtDaily.org
©Murakami (See Murakami), which has garnered much hype leading up to its debut, April 5th, will feature in addition to ©Murakami, a fully operational Louis Vuitton store featuring a series of Murakami-styled bags, limited edition canvases featuring “Monogramouflage”, a collaboration between Murakami and Vuitton’s artistic director, Marc Jacobs.
Brooklyn Museum announces Vuitton store within murakami exhibition [ArtDaily.org]
Vuitton Sales benefit little-known charity [NY Sun]
Murakami Vuitton bags for sale at Brooklyn Museum [NY Daily News]
Louis Vuitton at Brooklyn Museum, brought to you by Takashi Murakami [ArtInfo]
Screenshot of Armory Video part 1 courtesy of Vernissage.tv (click through for Video)
Vernissage.tv has two videos of the Armory Show currently on display at Pier 94 in New York. The first (shown above) features works from the galleries such as David Zwirner, Contemporary Fine Arts, Cheim and Reid and Arndt and Partner. Artists on display include Jason Rhodes, Daniel Richter, Johnathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschorn.
See Video 2 after the jump (more…)
Ilona Staller and artist Jeff Koons via Reuters
The Italian porn star Ilona Staller recently sued her ex-husband Jeff Koons in a claim claims $2.3 million (£1.15 million) due on child support. Ilona Staller aka “La Cicciolina” (which means “the little fleshy one” according to Wikipedia) claimed in New York State Court that her ex-husband has to date only paid $310,600 in child support for their son, Ludwig, since they divorced in 1998. Jeff Koons is known as one of the highest-paid living artists.
Artist Jeff Koons beeing sued [New York Magazine]
Koons sued by Porn Star Ex-Wife [Bloomberg]
Battle between Koons and his ex-wife the italian porn-star [New York Sun]
Photo of Richard Prince courtesy of Revolver
The Guardian UK reports that Richard Prince recently sold the rights to his film concept to an unnamed buyer.
Picture the End of the World – [Guardian UK]
The colorful hall near the Deitch Project’s Exhibit at the Armory 2008 via ArtObserved
Photos and Writing by Faith-Ann YoungEntering this year’s Armory Show felt like entering a Hollywood studio lot. Gone is any semblance to its roots in the fleabag suites of the Gramercy Park Hotel, when zealous artists displayed from suites’ sinks and bathtubs. This Wednesday’s VIP/Press Opening? Tons of Champagne, neon, kitsch, glitter, popped-collars, drugs, sex, but simply not enough BANG.
Opening of the Armory show [Bloomberg]
Armory show 2008 [New York Magazine]
Armory Show review [ New York Times]
Justin Anderson via the Moment
Art handlers in the forefront, and the back story [NYTimes, the moment]
The story of Gauguin’s severed head Arii Matamoe [NY Times]
Gugg. ex-director Krens up to more than expected in Abu Dhabi [NYMag]
China’s art market as a mere “pump and dump” PR play [Forbes]
Murakami interview before Brooklyn Museum show [New York Magazine]
Spencer Tunick’s nudes at Four Seasons restaurant [New York Post]
Update: The Guardian’s criticism of Whitney Biennial [Guardian.co.uk]
Asian art wrap-up: Yen bolsters Christie’s sales; Sotheby’s slumps [Bloomberg]
Photo via Will Rocklin for Art Observed
Phillips de Pury & Company opened its Chelsea, New York doors March 25th from 6:00-8:00pm for an auction preview of “Under the Influence.” Also on view was an emerging artist exhibition, “Associates in New York.”
Under the Influence [Phillips de Pury]
Associates in New York [Phillips de Pury]
Auction Registration [Global Auction Network]
Triptych by Bacon via Bloomberg
In May Sotheby’s New York will auction a Francis Bacon painting which could fetch a record of $70 million. The triptych and was painted in 1976 when the Bacon lived in Paris, comprised of oil and pastel on canvas in three parts.
Record for Bacon’s painting [Bloomberg]
Bacon’s most important work in sale [Guardian.co.uk]
Sotheby’s sets record with Bacon nude [ArtObserved]
John Baldessari, Carsten Holler, Nathalie Djurberg and Thomas Demand; Prada’s Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada; the curator Germano Celant;Francesco Vezzoli via the New York Times
Miuccia Prada as global patron of the arts [NY Times Magazine]
The expansion of South Korean art galleries in Chelsea [New York Sun]
Update: “Warhol’s Jews” the Sun reviews [New York Sun]
Salander profiled as a martyr of sorts for old masterworks [New York Mag]
On Artist Zhang Huan’s [Men’s Vogue]
Hockney donates fifty works to Tate Britain [the Times.UK via ArtForum]
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster chosen for Turbine Hall [Guardian UK]
Sonnabend’s collection to be sold to pay taxes on $400 million estate [Crains]
Crowds at the 2007 Armory via Kopenhagen
The Armory Show pulls droves of collectors, curators, dealers and enthusiasts. Now in its tenth year, the Armory Show is New York’s largest contemporary art fair. However, many of the satellite fairs that have sprung up as a result of the crowds are not to be missed. After the jump, a full rundown and schedule…
Companion Fairs offer variety for Armory attendees [NYSun]
SCOPE art fair sets itself apart[NYSun]
Newcomers to Armory Arts week [Artnet]
The Eden Rock hotel via Eden Rock, St.Barth’s
Until March 31, The Eden Rock hotel will display Will Cotton new works on paper. The artist was recently the guest of the hotel for three weeks in one of their beachside bungalows.
Will Cotton’s exhibition [Wall Street Journal]
Will Cotton’s exhibition at the Eden Rock hotel [Eden Rock hotel]
Richard Prince at Eden Rock Hotel in St. Barth [ArtObserved]
Kunstmuseum Video from Vernissage.TV (Click for link)
Running from March 5th until the 12th, the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Germany will feature a full survey of twin artists, Gert and Uwe Tobias’ work. 100’s of works be on display, including their well-known oversized wood cuts. In the video Dr. Stefan Gronert, curator of the museum, speaks about the artistic world of the Tobias brothers.
Gert & Uwe Tobias / Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany[Vernissage.TV]
Mark Handforth via Gavin Brown’s enterprise
Through March 29, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise will present Mark Handforth’s fourth gallery show. The exhibition will feature large-scale sculptures.
Review of Mark Handforth at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise [New York Times]
Mark Handforth at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise [Gavin Brown’s Enterprise]
