Gallery co-owners Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

The New York-based print studio Brand X Editions filed a civil complaint in the New York State Supreme Court yesterday alleging that the artist Christopher Wool and his gallery Luhring Augustine had violated the terms of a production agreement and that it was subsequently owed $6 million from each party.

The alleged agreement concerns a series of monoprints by Mr. Wool that used what the complaint calls a "proprietary mono-printing process that had been created, developed and perfected by Brand X’s master printer, Robert Blanton." As monoprints, each of the resulting 60 works from the production agreement would be unique and not an edition.

Brand X alleges that Mr. Wool wasn't sure how the monoprints would turn out and consequently entered into an agreement (over e-mail) whereby Brand X would finance their production in exchange for one-third, or 20, of the finished products. Mr. Wool and Luhring Augustine would then split the remaining 40, according to the complaint's description of the agreement.

The complaint then describes the production process during which, it alleges, Mr. Wool and the gallery came to realize the works may be more valuable than they'd previously thought. It says that a gallery representative stopped by the Brand X studio and called the prints “beautiful," adding that they “look like candy.”

Mr. Wool allegedly then tried to talk Brand X into accepting only one-quarter of the works, and then asked to pay for the production costs in exchange for all of them. Brand X refused, and work on the series stopped at 34 monoprints, which the complaint says Mr. Wool now refuses to sign.

The gallery's owners Lawrence Luhring and Roland Augustine were travelling when The Observer reached out and were not immediately available for comment.

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GQ has a new interview with Drake who, though he was only 25 when he came to be sitting on $25 million (not literally), says he wants to be as rich as one of the art world's favorite patrons. From the article:

"He muses aloud about money. Yes, he wants it—for what it can buy, for what it signifies. He vowed he'd bank $25 million by the time he was 25—and he did—and now he's wondering what it would take to run his life, with a wad of perpetual pocket money, at the level he wants. With the private jets and cribs, the vacations and hotel suites for the crew. He's talking about Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire and owner of the Chelsea Football Club, whose yacht Drake believed cost $550 million.

"'Do you know that even if I had $250 million in the bank, I couldn't buy half of that?' he says. (Turns out the yacht actually cost $1.5 billion.) 'Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.'"

(h/t The Awl)

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“After 17 years of running the businesses -- 17 annual general meetings and so on -- I looked at my schedule and saw that everything was repeating itself,” [collector Herbert] Looser, 75, says in an interview at the Kunsthaus Zurich, where his art collection is currently on show. “I wanted a different life. I didn’t want money for money’s sake, I wanted to give money a meaning.” [Bloomberg]

Gavin Turk designs embroideries for prisoners. [The Art Newspaper]

Greg Allen renders Seth Siegelaub's 1968 "Xerox Book" as a series of animated gifs. [Greg.org]

A Thom Yorke painting from 2005 heads to auction [Pitchfork]

Young dictator portraits at Saatchi Gallery's paper show: "People had been trying to buy bits and pieces of it – they all wanted Hitler." [The Guardian]

L.A. County Museum of Art will honor David Hockney and Martin Scorsese at its annual ’s Art + Film Gala. [Los Angeles Times]

Carl Andre. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORB via The Guardian)

Interview magazine just posted a terrific interview with Carl Andre, conducted by art critic Barbara Rose. You should go read it.

I don't want to ruin much so I'll just let you know how it begins:

BARBARA ROSE: I want to begin at the beginning, Carl, because I'm trying to reconstruct the remembrance of things past.

CARL ANDRE: That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol. I hope you understand that.

You can't make a forgery of a Carl Andre, says Carl Andre. They just become Carl Andres. So it might even be a good business strategy to read this piece. Read it here.

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We've had an early look at the Museum of Modern Art's schedule for the rest of the year, and a good amount of 2014, and it's all fairly impressive.

The annual "New Photography" show, always closely watched for market and horse-race reasons, will include Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde and Eileen Quinlan.

The full list of programming follows.

**New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan (September 14, 2013–January 06, 2014)

** Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for Cinema (September 28, 2013–February 9, 2014)

** The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule (November 20, 2013–December 6, 2013)

** Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves (November 25, 2013–February 17, 2014)

** Robert Heinecken (March 15, 2014–June 22, 2014)

** Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness (August 2, 2014–November 2, 2014)

Blouin. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

This weekend saw a new parody Twitter account created for media mogul Louise Blouin, owner of Blouin Artinfo, Art + Auction and Modern Painters, among other art publications. It's pretty funny, and obviously not Louise Blouin.

Louise Blouin Media had no comment about the Twitter feed, because we didn't call them, because that's obviously not Louise Blouin.

Some you thought it was real, I'm just saying.

Opening: Ken Price, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962-2010," at the Drawing Center
Just before Los Angeles-born sculptor Ken Price died last February, he approved two traveling exhibitions of his work, both of which are arriving in New York on Tuesday. Though he is best known for his three-dimensional pieces (which will be the bulk of the retrospective opening at the Met), Price drew prolifically. The Drawing Center is showing 50-odd-years' worth of works on paper that will no doubt provide nuance to our understanding of the sculptures on view uptown. —Zoë Lescaze
The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, New York, 6-9 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

Opening: "Equus" at Tabla Rasa Gallery
Animals are proving muses for group shows all over town. Or two of them are anyway. Cat allergies? Try the horse show. —Z.L.
Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48th Street, Brooklyn, 6-8 p.m.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

Opening: Dan Graham, Heidi Schlatter, Jaques Tati, Servane Mary "No Place Like You (continued)" at Shoot The Lobster at Martos Gallery
Look at those artists! Are you really not going to go to this? This is an extension of Peter Scott's exhibition at Martos, held at their back room project space Shoot the Lobster. —Dan Duray
Martos Gallery, 540 West 29th Street, 6-8 p.m.

Opening: Adrien Missika, Alex Israel, Nina Beier, Sam Falls, Tobias Madison, Verena Dengler, Willem de Rooij "Noa Noa" at Metro Pictures
Great, great artists. There's no reception so just go whenever. Why not go when it's sunny outside? —D.D.
Metro Pictures, 519 West 24 Street, New York

Opening: Paul McCarthy, "Rebel Dabble Babble" at Hauser & Wirth 
Just months after he installed a magnificent array of sculptures throughout the city, Mr. McCarthy is back in town with two ambitious video/performance/installation works. The gallery will stage "Rebel Dabble Babble," a collaboration by Mr. McCarthy and his son Damon that explores the rumored relations between Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray and his young cast. "WS," Mr. McCarthy's most elaborate take on Snow White yet, opens at the Park Avenue Armory the day before. —Z.L.
Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18th Street, New York,  6-8 p.m.

Opening: "Ambient," at Tanya Bonakdar
The Kitchen’s Tim Griffin curates a group show at Tanya Bonakdar gallery featuring work by Olafur Eliasson, Sherrie Levine, Tristan Perich and others. A live performance of Walter Marchetti’s Natura Morta by Alex Waterman will take place at 4:30 p.m. on opening day.—Michael H. Miller
Tanya Bonakdar, 521 West 21 Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.

Opening: "Mixed Message Media" curated by Neville Wakefield at Gladstone Gallery
Neville Wakefield curates this group show featuring work by 15 artists including Darren Bader, Claudia Comte, Dominic Nurre, Alex Perweiler and others.—M.H.M.
Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, New York, 6-8 p.m.

Screenings: Dirty Looks Presents David Wojnarowicz and Carl George at Participant Inc
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Visual AIDS and Participant's current Gordon Kurtti retrospective, the Dirty Looks film series shows two classics of the East Village scene, David Wojnarowicz's Beautiful People (1988) and Carl George's In 6 Feet, Dancers That I Know and Love (1991). A panel with Cynthia Carr, Rayya Elias and Jack Waters, moderated by Esther Kaplan, will follow. —Andrew Russeth
Participant Inc, 253 East Houston, New York, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 20

Artist Talk: James Turrell with Michael Govan at the Guggenheim
This is sold out, obviously, because it's going to be great, but you never know. —D.D. (Photo courtesy Wikipedia, "taken by Florian Holzherr. Taken from Art Knowledge News, which is willing to share its media with Wikipedia and has done so in the past.")
1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $12, $8 members, 2 p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 22

Openings: "Haim Steinbach: Once Again the World Is Flat." and "Helen Marten: No Borders in a Wok That Can't Be Crossed" at CCS Bard
It's a big day upstate! The Hessel Museum will show early paintings from the 1970s by master of objects Haim Steinbach, along with "reconfigured historical installations and major new works," and will offer up the first U.S. museum exhibition of the young, enterprising British artist Helen Marten, which is organized by Kunsthalle Zürich's Beatrix Ruf. —A.R.
CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1–4 p.m., free buses from New York City, details via 845-758-7598 or ccs@bard.edu

SUNDAY, JUNE 23

Opening: "Permutation 03.4: Re-Mix" at P!
The reliably venturesome P! space ends its six-month series of shows and events about copying with an exhibition that "revives recent histories through spatial fiction and wild expropriation," according to its press release. The artists on tap: Semir Alschausky, Thomas Brinkmann (who will perform at 8 p.m.), Katarina Burin, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism and Oliver Laric. Note the peculiar opening time, which is part of an intriguing daily schedule conceived by FIAA. —A.R.
P!, 334 Broome Street, New York, 7:02–10 p.m.

The artist. (Courtesy Vice magazine)

We're fans of Korakrit Arunanondchai over here at Gallerist and are not afraid to admit it. So we were thrilled to see him featured as a "Do" in Vice magazine's popular "Dos and Don'ts" feature.

No telling when the photo's from. The text describes him as appearing "artistically... so beyond what I will ever be able to understand that instead of listening to him talk it’s better just to nod while quietly trying to figure out which type of Asian he is." Sounds about right.

He's Thai, by the way.

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Here's an early look at the press release for Sculpture Center's annual benefit gala, to be held on Oct. 9.

Full release follows:

This fall, SculptureCenter will honor artist Fred Wilson and curator Susanne Ghez for the SculptureCenter Annual Benefit Gala, to be held at New York’s historic Edison Ballroom on October 9th, 2013. Leaders in their respective roles within contemporary art, the work of both Wilson and Ghez parallel the institution’s dedication to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture.

SculptureCenter Annual Benefit Gala
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Edison Ballroom
240 West 47th Street
New York City

About the honorees:
Fred Wilson has created site-specific installations in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions throughout North America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion. Beginning with the groundbreaking and critically accalaimed exhibition Mining the Museum (1992-93) at the Maryland Historical Society, Fred Wilson has juxtaposed and re-contextualized existing objects to create new installations, which alter their traditional meanings or interpretations. In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the solo exhibition, Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am. His many accolades include the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant (1999), amongst others.

Since 1974, Executive Director and Chief Curator Susanne Ghez has led The Renaissance Society with a focus on the forefront of the visual arts, establishing an international reputation as one of the finest resources for contemporary art. Since then, Ghez has introduced Chicago audiences to leading contemporary artists such as Robert Smithson, Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Daniel Buren, On Kawara, Gunther Forg, Juan Muñoz, Hanne Darboven, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Thomas Struth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kara Walker, Arturo Herrera, Darren Almond, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Mark Manders. The Renaissance Society is a non-collecting museum founded in 1915 to encourage the growth and understanding of contemporary art. After 40 years, Ghez will step down from her role at the Renaissance this year.

About SculptureCenter:
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists. Our programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision.

Kelly. (Courtesy Getty Images)

The Art Newspaper reports that the Museum of Modern Art has purchased Ellsworth Kelly’s Black Form II (2012) from his current show at Matthew Marks Gallery.

The museum confirmed the purchase, though declined to comment on the price. The report notes that Mr. Kelly's prices tend to start at $2 million.

Read more here.