John Elderfield, formerly the chief curator in the painting and sculpture department at the Museum of Modern Art, will be joining Gagosian Gallery. Mr. Elderfield left MoMA in 2007, but he was behind the museum’s popular and critically lauded de Kooning retrospective last year. Read More
New York Times writer Carol Vogel breaks the news over in her Inside Art column that Art.sy–an art world tech start-up that calls itself the “Pandora for art,” throws pretty lavish parties and has amassed a big ol’ list of supporters that includes Larry Gagosian and Wendi Murdoch–has hired curator John Elderfield as a senior adviser. Ms. Vogel also seems to flub the start-up’s slogan, calling it the “Google of the art world” (isn’t Google the Google of the art world?). Read More
