The art world has done some soul-searching following news that Damien Hirst will leave his longtime gallery, Gagosian. But the collector and dealer Alberto Mugrabi, whose family reportedly owns several hundred works by Mr. Hirst, isn’t worried. Read More
In an interview with Paris Match that hit stands this weekend, Larry Gagosian confirmed that he’s looking to open a third gallery in London, this in addition to the spaces he already has on Davies and Britannia Streets. The new space in London would be Mr. Gagosian’s 13th gallery, spread across seven countries. Read More
A week before the opening of Gagosian’s latest space in his gallery chain, a 17,760-square-foot gallery in northern Paris at the Le Bourget airport, the art dealer talks to The Wall Street Journal‘s Kelly Crow about the mood in the market, how he caters to different tastes at his 12 galleries around the world, the “home run” at the ArtRio fair and the difference between art and luxury goods. Read More
Cristina Ruiz, who completed Gagosian’s 11-gallery Damien Hirst “spot challenge” this past winter for The Art Newspaper, writes today that she and the other 127 people who successfully ran the gauntlet will soon receive their special-edition Hirst print. Read More
Part four in Gagosian’s ongoing series of epic Picasso exhibitions is set to hit New York on April 30, and the focus will be work made during the artist’s relationship with Francoise Gilot in the 1940s and early ’50s, Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina reports in the wire service’s new Pursuits magazine. Read More
For the past month, fashionable New Yorkers and art world connoisseurs have been streaming through a storefront at the 980 Madison Avenue building to pick up spotty souvenirs from a Gagosian-branded “spot shop” that was opened to coincide with the globe-spanning 11-gallery “Complete Spot Paintings” exhibition by Damien Hirst. With the spot show upstairs closing in less than two weeks, the Upper East Side may soon trade spots for espresso as Larry Gagosian is in talks with his landlord, Aby Rosen’s RFR Realty, to open a cafe in the space (call it Cafe Gilbert). Read More
The plot thickened today in the ongoing legal drama involving Larry Gagosian, Jan Cowles (the mother of retired Artforum editor and art dealer Charles Cowles) and a $2.5 million Mark Tansey painting, with The New York Post reporting that Ms. Cowles has slapped Gogo with a $14 million suit alleging that he sold the Tansey and another work, a $4.5 million Lichtenstein, without her consent. Read More
