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By Kenny Schachter 1/09 5:46pm

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Status Anxiety: Kenny Schachter Dives into Facebook’s Art-World Trenches

In the age of hunched-over iPhone overachievers, Facebook has birthed a hybrid form of participatory art chat, a free-for-all dialogue sometimes charged with a level of meanness that would do an HBO series proud. These heated conversations have an added layer of social intrigue in the art world: just as often as they are anonymous, your Facebook friends are real-world acquaintances, ones you might run into at an art fair or on your gallery rounds. I’m as guilty as anyone for the tone of the art conversations on Facebook, what with my catty proclamations (more on that in a bit) but probably we all bear some responsibility. Read More

By GalleristNY 12/09/12 11:16am

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Tony Oursler, Oculus, 2011, at Galerie Forsblom

The Scene at Art Miami

Art Miami returned this year for its 23rd edition with about 125 exhibitors, ranging from the Christie’s–owned Haunch of Venison to Soho’s Eli Klein Fine Art, the Chinese contemporary art gallery that featured prominently on this year’s Bravo television show Gallery Girls. Read More

By GalleristNY 12/01/12 3:02pm

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Taubman. (Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty Images)

Alleging Harassment, Flight Attendant Sues Onetime Sotheby’s Owner Alfred Taubman

Nicole Rock, a former flight attendant on the private plane of Alfred Taubman, the billionaire shopping-mall developer who once owned Sotheby’s, has filed a $29 million suit against her old boss, alleging he sexually harassed her on numerous occasions, according to the New York Post. Taubman, who served about nine months in prison after being found guilty of participating in a price-fixing scheme in 2001, has denied harassing her. Read More

By Jonah Wolf 11/30/12 10:55am

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"Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989," 2012-13. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner.

‘Come Closer’: Stellar New Museum Show Examines Bowery History

The most prominent item in “Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989,” on view at the New Museum now through Dec. 30, is the door to Keith Haring’s loft at 325 Broome Street. The front of the door is painted bright red, except for one dull patch where painters have preserved a trademark Radiant Baby. The back boasts tags from Haring as well as his graffiti-writing houseguests: Futura 2000, Fab Five Freddy, Kenny Scharf and LA2. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 11/01/12 2:04pm

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Hadid and the press. (Courtesy Kenny Schachter)

A Trip to Beijing With Zaha Hadid

Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator and writer.  His writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid, and artists Vito Acconci and Paul Thek. He is also a contributor to the British edition of GQ and Swiss money manager Marc Faber’s Gloom Boom & Doom Report.

I landed in Beijing last week—on my first visit to China, for the opening of Soho Galaxy, a new office complex by Zaha Hadid—and hit the ground running. Within minutes I met up with a young TV executive I’d gotten to know four years ago, at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. (It was over eight hours long, so there was plenty of time to make acquaintances, again thanks to Zaha, who designed the sublime swimming pavilion.) The agenda for the day was lunch, followed by artist and museum visits and a tour of Beijing’s artist and gallery district, 798. Read More

By GalleristNY 10/02/12 3:34pm

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Kenny Schachter on ‘Gallery Girls’: The Complete Series

Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in, which he bravely did for the season’s eight episodes. His complete efforts are collected below. Mr. Schachter’s writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid, and artists Vito Acconci and Paul Thek. He is a contributor to the British edition of GQ and Swiss money manager Marc Faber’s Gloom Boom & Doom Report. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 10/02/12 3:22pm

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Amy. (Courtesy Bravo)

Toxic Shock: Kenny Schachter on the Final Two Episodes of Bravo’s ‘Gallery Girls’

Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. Last time around we set him up for a GChat with a real, live Gallery Girl, and thought that would placate him; now it seems the toxicity of the program has spread out from our recap-writer and managed to disrupt the lives of the entire Schachter household. Mercifully, the show is over and we hope you will stay tuned for further musings on non-Gallery Girls-related subjects from Mr. Schachter, whose writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid, and artists Vito Acconci and Paul Thek, and who is a contributor to the British edition of GQ and Swiss money manager Marc Faber’s Gloom Boom & Doom Report. Read his complete Gallery Girl writings here.

My closest friends think I’m an asshole for investing so much time in these recaps, and I am beginning to believe it myself. Seven was my favorite number, until I suffered through the final two episodes, episodes seven and eight, of Gallery Girls (GG). My brief romance with the girls has come crashing back to earth. The affair has turned back into a marriage, a long and tortured one at that. Please, for the benefit of all—cast crew and audience—no second season, and if so, let it be someone else who reviews it. Read More

By GalleristNY 9/24/12 2:52pm

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Jeff Koons Press Release Has Best Sentence in Any Press Release Ever

Jeff Koons is having his first exhibition in Brussels in 20 years; it opens Oct. 6 at Almine Rech gallery. And that is news! But far more impressive than that news is the following sentence in the exhibition’s press release which may, as indicated in our headline, be the best sentence in any press release ever released in the history of press releases released to the press. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 9/18/12 7:00am

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Amy. (Courtesy Bravo)

The Adventures of Amy: Kenny Schachter (the Hans Ulrich Obrist of Awful) GChats With a Real Live Gallery Girl

Seeking a professional opinion on the Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in. With Episode Five, we detected that he was, in his way, warming to the show a bit, even though he still forgot the girls’ names, and lambasted someone called The Sucklord. Episode Six warranted a different approach. Stay tuned for (we hope) further musings on the program from Mr. Schachter, whose writing has appeared in books on architect Zaha Hadid, and artists Vito Acconci and Paul Thek, and who is a contributor to the British edition of GQ and Swiss money manager Marc Faber’s Gloom Boom & Doom Report.  Read More