Donald Judd, Untitled, in “Boule to Braid” at Lisson Gallery. Via the Telegraph

The Lisson Gallery is hosting “Boule to Braid” through August 15.   The exhibition draws exclusively from the collection of Nicholas Logsdail, Lisson Gallery’s young founder.  Featured are Carl Andre, Paul McCarthy, Donald Judd, Tony Cragg and more.

Related links:
Lisson Gallery – Exhibition – Boule to Braid: curated by Richard Wentworth
Art Sales: dealer who opened Saatchi’s eyes [the Telegraph]
Richard Wentworth on ‘Boule to Braid’ [Interview, artreview.com]
Boule de Braid: Private View with Adrian Searle [Guardian]

Tom Sachs, Supreme Allied Commander Moon Rock Box, in “Boule to Braid” at Lisson Gallery.

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From “Tom Sachs: Cameras” at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

Through September 16, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will show pieces  by Tom Sachs that focus on cameras.  Since 1972, Sachs has sporadically produced works that follow the evolution of photography as an art form. The exhibition, which is in collaboration with Sperone Westwater gallery in New York,  follows Sachs’s work in cameras, and will even include an opportunity for patrons to be photographed by the artist.

Related links:
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Tom Sachs: Cameras [Exhibition Page]
Tom Sachs [artist homepage]
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Offers a Snapshot of Tom Sachs’s Cameras [ArtDaily]

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The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City via panoramio.com

Mexico City opens a new 3,300 sq. m, $20 million contemporary art museum [TheArtNewspaper]
Sculptor Richard Serra awarded the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain [ArtDaily]
A Sotheby’s video offers refreshing transparency into its process in the current environment [Sotheby’s]
In more video, Takashi Murakami on money and art, New York vs. Tokyo and more [TMagazine – The Moment]
And finally, video of Damien Hirst on his Statuephilia installation in London [Aarting]

Tom Sachs opens his online store [tomsachs.org via supertouch]
Gallerist/web presence Edward Winkleman announces his book ‘How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery’ [edwardwinkleman]
The Louvre finds 3 possible Leonardo Da Vinci drawings on the back of his painting [Bloomberg]

Gallerist Mellissa Bent, artist Hope Atherton and artist Georgia Sagri make the scene at Rivington Arms via ArtForum

On the closing of Lower East Side Gallery Rivington Arms [ArtForum] more on this here [NYObserver]
Similarly, the International Asian Art Fair is canceled [ArtInfo] Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami, opened in 2005, will also close [ArtLurker]

The installation entitled ‘Moscow on the Move’ via the Guardian

Dasha Zhukova and the Moscow Garage organize a 17-artist public video installation which includes work by Doug Aitken, Fischli and Weiss and Pippilotti Rist [GuardianUK]

Crying Sanrio sculptures by Tom Sachs (to correspond with his show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac) at the Trocadero, Paris, via Supertouch

After a show at Lever House in New York earlier this year (previously covered by ArtObserved here), Tom Sachs’ crying sculptures based on Sanrio characters went on display in Paris. The three sculptures were available for public viewing through November 2nd at the Place du Trocadero, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, and were an off-site installation of Sachs’ show at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.  Entitled “Miffy,” “Hello Kitty,” and “My Melody,” the sculptures appear to be made of foamcore, known to be Tom Sachs’ favorite material. They are actually made of bronze, and constructed to mimic foamcore and the cut and paste aesthetic found in many of the artist’s works.  The show will run until November 22nd, 2008, at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

TOM SACHS
through November 22, 2008
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme
Paris, France

Artist page: Tom Sachs
Tom Sachs’ show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Press Release at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS///TOM SACHS’ CRYING KITTYS AT THE TOWER OF EIFFEL [Supertouch]
Tom Sachs Exhibition at The Eiffel Tower Paris [RawArt]

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Amy Winehouse via musikxtrema

Roman Abramovich pays Amy Winehouse $2 million to open girlfriend Daria Zhukova’s 8,000 square meter Moscow gallery [Ria Novosti]
Tom Sachs Interview[artinfo] and double show review [NYTimes]
Two Picasso prints ($612K) stolen from Brazil museum by force [Int. Herald Tribune]
Sotheby’s floating $300 million of convertible notes [Bloomberg]
1.27 Million pound record for indian art sale[Bloomberg]
London new mayor keeping art on fourth plinth[artinfo]

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Fritza Riedler via Klimt.com

Klimpt’s dual acumen in portraiture and decorative design [GuardianUK]
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Tom Sachs’s Hello Kitty Sculptures: copyright violations? [NYMag]
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Art economist interview on her new global market study [ArtInfo]
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11 global art scene cities [ForbesTraveler]
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Rare interview with collector-scion/billionare Nicolas Berggruen [Financial Times]

Hello Kitty lowered into position via Wallpaper

From May 8 – June 21 the Sperone Westwater Gallery presents the works of Tom Sachs. The gallery has divided up the gallery space into smaller spaces each housing an individual work.  Sachs has handmade each of the pieces in this exhibit, using various items to create a “do it yourself” feel.  The Lever House has sponsored Sachs to create large scale creations.  In the plaza is a 21 foot Hello Kitty with fountains, and a 7 foot Crying Miffy.  In the lobby, Sachs has created 6-9 feet tall towers made of batteries, and even a bronze dumpster.

Sachs & Co [The New Yorker]
Tom Sachs “Animals” [Sperone Westwater]
Tom Sachs’ Bronze Collection [Wallpaper]
Tom Sachs – Animals [likeyou]

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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]