Marc Glimcher, president of the Pace Gallery, has hired four international directors to work out of his new 9,000-square-foot space in London, which opened earlier this month. All four are expected to travel regularly—a shame, since the gallery is housed in one of British art world’s most distinguished landmarks, the Royal Academy. Read More
The British, it can be said, have a difficult relationship with gingers. This goes back at least to Jonathan Swift, who observed in “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms” that “it is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest,” or, more commonly, back to grade school, where Britons are known to show no quarter when it comes to teasing those of the penny coloring. Read More
Bloomberg features a great sales report from Frieze and Frieze Masters today, the standouts being Hauser & Wirth’s contemporary centerpiece White Snow Head by Paul McCarthy and Christophe Van de Weghe’s Homme et Femme au bouquet (1970) by Pablo Picasso. Read More
LONDON—The VIP preview of Frieze Masters yesterday was packed with some fantastic discoveries. Who knew that William Eggleston’s landscapes could be so pacific? Who knew that Alan Rickman would look so bad with a moustache? Read More
There is reportedly $1.5 billion worth of art in London right now for Frieze and its new sister fair, Frieze Masters, which focuses on art made before 2000. Frieze Masters opened yesterday to select VIPs and today that crowd will get a look at Frieze. Both run through Sunday, Oct. 14. Read More
LONDON—It was a bit too early, at the end of the first day of the Pavilion of Art and Design fair yesterday, to say which pieces everyone’s talking about and who sold what. By that time, though, I did feel qualified to point out a trend I’ve noticed at a lot of art fairs, but with a greater frequency at PAD. Put simply: there seemed to be many pieces intended to make you do a double take because you think they’re by someone else. These could, you think at first, be the real deal. It’s not uncommon for an unexpected booth at an art fair to surprise you with something great. I encountered a Japanese booth at the Modern art section of the Armory Fair last year that, out of nowhere, featured a $35 million Gerhard Richter. These things happen. Read More
LONDON—As you may have heard from the dateline I used just a few words ago, I’m in London this week covering the 9,703 art fairs, and hit the ground running today with an off-the-record collection visit and a check in at Sadie Coles to see conceptual artist Darren Bader’s first show with that gallery, “More Buildings about Songs and Food.” Read More
During Frieze Week, Gagosian Gallery’s Britannia Street outpost in London will present a solo show of work by Franz West, who passed away over the summer. West was “actively engaged with the preparation of this exhibition” up until his death, according to a press release. Read More
David Zwirner recently sat down with the Financial Times to discuss his new London gallery, which opens this week with a show of Luc Tuymans, and he’s remarkably candid about his motivations for opening a space there, as well as the challenges that lie ahead with the new space. Read More
