Over on Ed Winkleman’s website, the dealer and Elizabeth Dee recently posted a pre-interview they conducted for their Art Basel panel, “The place of mid-level galleries in the age of the mega-gallery” (moderated by Josh Baer). In it, Ms. Dee said that the gallery of the 21st century needs to act much more like a talent agency. Read More
People like to say that Larry Gagosian almost never gives interviews, but recently he has granted them to various international publications fairly regularly. In the past few years he’s chatted with The Financial Times, Abu Dhabi’s The National, The Wall Street Journal, Paris Match, Le Figaro, British Vogue and Interview with Peter Brant, letting slip that his forthcoming Upper East Side restaurant will serve waffles and chili. (Really looking forward to that, for the record.) Read More
More than 100 photographs from the collection of New York dealer Howard Greenberg are heading to Europe for stops at two museums over the next eight months. The first stop for the works will be the Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, in Switzerland, from Sept. 21, 2012, to Jan. 6, 2013. Nine days later, the exhibition will open at the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, in Paris, and run through April 28. Read More
Big news in Carol Vogel’s column in The New York Times today. The former superdealing firm Giraud, Pissarro, Ségalot, whose future was unclear following the departure of Franck Giraud late last year, has re-formed, as it were, as Connery, Pissarro, Seydoux. Read More
Larry Gagosian’s Upper East Side office has “the calm of a private papal chamber,” according to author Philip Delves Broughton. He visited the dealer back in 2000 for an article in the Daily Telegraph on the occasion of the opening of the first Gagosian Gallery in London, on Heddon Street. Mr. Delves Broughton has drawn on that interview for a section of his new book, The Art of the Sale, which profiles a number of high-profile deal-makers in various industries. Read More
Tomorrow, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is putting on display selections from the 1,500-item edition archive of SoHo and Chelsea gallerist Peter Blum, who has been active as a print publisher for more than 30 years. The exhibition comes exactly 40 years after Mr. Blum began his art-dealing career at the storied Galerie Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. Read More
The dealer and art financier Asher Edelman of Edelman Arts Inc., who began his professional life in banking, just sent a letter to his friends and supporters this morning that denounced, in no uncertain terms, the city’s clearing of Zuccotti Park. Read More
“It’s sort of guerilla warfare,” said Vito Schnabel, the curator and art dealer. Read More
