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By GalleristNY 9/07/12 3:05pm

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Warhol in 1979 at Mr. Chow in London. (Courtesy Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Regarding Warhol” exhibition opens to the public on Sept. 18, and it promises to be a major event. It will include 45 works by Warhol, arguably the most important postwar contemporary artist, and pieces by some 60 artists that have been influenced by him. Group shows of contemporary art at the Met are exceedingly rare affairs (though that may soon change, given the recent arrival of Sheena Wagstaff from Tate Modern to lead its department for 20th- and 21st-century art), and they are almost unrivaled showcases for artists:  the Met is the second-most-visited museum in the world each year. Being including in a show like “Regarding Warhol,” to put it bluntly, can help raise the profile of even the most established artists, and lead to sales down the line.

Who made the cut for “Regarding Warhol?” The lucky artists are listed below, grouped by their New York galleries. (In cases where two galleries share some aspect of their representation in New York, they were listed under both.) The list reveals that, at least by this admittedly peculiar measure, Gagosian shows the most Warhol-influenced artists, and by a wide margin. The complete results are below. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 9/06/12 8:57am

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Koh and Holzer. (Courtesy Bravo)

I’m (Especially) Mad as Hell: Kenny Schachter on Episode Four 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. His most recent recap, of episode three, had us convinced that the program was just too much for him, and, as we slipped episode four into a FedEx envelope, we wondered if we would hear back. When the following recap landed in our inbox last night, we were assured that all was well, relatively speaking. With each passing week we are newly impressed with his resilience. 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

By Anthony Haden-Guest 9/05/12 3:20pm

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Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, San San International Archive 25, 2010

Marlborough’s Shades of ‘Grey’: Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe Turn the Gallery Into ‘a Parallel Universe, Where Time Is Out of Joint’

You walk into an art gallery on West 25th Street. It’s the Marlborough Chelsea, right? Well, yes and no. The gallery you enter is hung with paintings and collages, but it doesn’t look like Marlborough. Moving on, you find yourself in an art storage space. Then a public lavatory, then a private one, as if in somebody’s home, where you step into the bathtub, then, Alice-fashion, you pop through a hole in the wall. Which is when things start getting… odd. You have been wandering through an installation by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe called Stray Light Grey. Read More

By Susan Michals 9/04/12 5:56pm

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Just, Arrived: With Three Ambitious New Films, Jesper Just Explores the Poetry of Place

Sitting in Zinque, a boho hippie wine bar in Venice, Calif., Jesper Just, with his piercing blue eyes and disheveled blond hair, looked more like a surfer dude than an artist whose famously open-ended narrative films grace the collections of world-class museums like the Guggenheim, the Tate Modern and MoMA, and who was recently chosen to represent Denmark in the 2013 Biennale—in that other Venice. This was in late July, and the Danish-born, New York-based 37-year-old had just spent a few days filming in Llano Del Rio, a long-deserted socialist community in the Antelope Valley outside Los Angeles. He’d come to Zinque to discuss that film, Llano, that will have its world premiere in an exhibition opening at New York’s James Cohan Gallery on September 6—along with two other new films getting their New York premieres—but he gave the impression that he’d prefer the content of his work to remain at least partly ambiguous. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 8/31/12 6:50pm

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'Gallery Girls.' (Courtesy Bravo)

Logical Volume Identifier: Kenny Schachter on Episode Three 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. After his recap of the first two episodes, we weren’t entirely certain he would stay in the game. But today we received his thoughts on episode three. Stay tuned (we hope) for 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.

I set out this week to suspend disbelief (yes, a paradoxical prospect given that we are dealing with a reality show) close my eyes and hold my nose, take a giant leap of faith and try my very best to find something redeeming in the third installment of Gallery Girls (here, GG). But based on the evidence of this program, it seems that a serviceably watchable, remotely entertaining television show about art is just too good to be true, and despite the sheer focus and determination with which I attempted to seek out the merit in this enterprise—and, reader, I tried, I really tried—my efforts were in vain. Read More

By GalleristNY 8/21/12 4:49pm

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Press Preview Of Hayward Gallery's Invisible: Art About The Unseen Exhibition

Do Gallery Exhibitions Still Matter? Readers Respond

Last week, following Margo Leavin Gallery’s announcement that it plans to close after more than 40 years in Los Angeles, we asked readers to respond to Leavin director Wendy Brandow’s assertion that the public’s interest in gallery exhibitions has declined. She told the Los Angeles Times:

“People are approaching art differently today. They’re not seeking out the thoughtful, complete statement that artists make when they create gallery exhibitions. … The exhibitions have been such an important part of what we do, and they are no longer valued as much by the public.”

Readers delivered a wide variety of takes on the subject. Read More

By Kenny Schachter 8/21/12 2:45pm

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Gallery Gossip Girls: Kenny Schachter on the First Two Episodes of Bravo’s ‘Gallery Girls’

Seeking a professional opinion on the new Bravo reality series Gallery Girls, we asked the London-based art dealer, curator and writer Kenny Schachter to weigh in on the show’s first two episodes. Stay tuned for 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.

I’ve been in art for nearly 25 years without witnessing a single pair of exposed art world knickers. Is there something wrong with me? Read More

By GalleristNY 8/15/12 1:05pm

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Wendy Brandow (left), Peter Stevens, Margo Leavin. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

A Question for Our Readers

The Los Angeles Times reported today that Los Angeles’s Margo Leavin Gallery, which has been in business for more than four decades and has featured exhibitions of John Baldessari and others, will close its doors. The gallery was also a fixture of important international art fairs like Art Basel. Explaining the gallery’s decision, business partner Wendy Brandow told the Times: Read More

By Anthony Haden-Guest 8/07/12 3:59pm

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Remembering Robert Hughes, 1938-2012

It’s normal, I suppose, not to remember the first meeting with a friend. And always to remember the last. I got to know Bob Hughes in the London of the later ’60s—O.K., “Swinging London,” a term that began slipping into ironic usage as soon as it was coined—this being a city in which Australians, not being burdened by Brit passive-aggression, stood out. Martin Sharp of Oz magazine was at the front of my building, Germaine Greer was across the corridor, and Bob and Danne Hughes were around the corner in a Chelsea square. Read More

By Charlotte Lindemann 7/31/12 4:25pm

'Bed Leak' by Isaac Brest, a member of the Still House group. (Courtesy the artist and the Tappan Collective)

New Online Venture, Tappan Collective, Seeks Emerging-Art Buyers at Lower-End of the Market

Though the art business was remarkably slow in venturing onto the Internet, art-buying sites have proliferated in the past few years, with Paddle8, Art.sy, Artspace, the VIP Art Fair and others competing in an untested playing field. Now another one has joined that battle, the Tappan Collective, which offers to connect aspiring collectors with a selection of emerging young artists at low prices in an online-shopping format. Read More