Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announced today that since opening its second location in October 2012, the gallery has received 14,300 visitors. It’s a hit! The visitors were for the gallery’s two inaugural shows: Anselm Kiefer’s “Die Ungeborenen” and Joseph Beuys’s “Iphnigenie.” Read More
Last week, the Baer Faxt reported that Christie’s would close its Haunch of Venison galleries in New York and London. Today, in her column for the Financial Times, Georgina Adam reports that 40 employees of the gallery are expected to lose their jobs as a result of the closure. Read More
Chelsea stalwart 303 Gallery now represents the up-and-coming artist Jacob Kassay, gallery owner Lisa Spellman has told The Observer. The gallery will also move from its current spot on West 21st Street to a new building under the High Line on 24th Street, as Gallerist previously reported, in mid-April. Read More
This afternoon the Baer Faxt broke the news that Haunch of Venison, the primary and secondary market gallery in Chelsea owned by Christie’s, will close its doors in March. Read More
Dealer Chris D’Amelio, who only a little more than a year ago split with longtime partner Lucien Terras to go solo, will close his gallery to join the ever-expanding David Zwirner gallery. The New York Times has the story in his week’s Inside Art column. Read More
Peter Blum Gallery, which shows artists like Esther Kläs, Huma Bhabha and Superflex, is moving from its home on West 29th Street to a second-floor space at 20 West 57th Street that was once home to the Blum-Helman gallery (the latter was opened by Los Angeles dealer Irving Blum–no relation to Peter–and Joseph Helman in the late 1970s). Read More
“If you have to work as a dealer through the years by thinking of the commerce only, it can be one of the most squalid activities,” Gian Enzo Sperone told Gallerist on Tuesday afternoon last week. We were standing on the fourth floor of the sleek Norman Foster-designed tower on the Bowery that houses his contemporary art gallery, Sperone Westwater. “This,” he said, gesturing at the figurative paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries on the walls, “gives us three-quarter nobility.” As it happens, Mr. Sperone, an Italian in his 70s, looks a bit like a nobleman in the old style: he has a thick but neatly groomed beard, and wears a tailored blue pinstripe jacket. Given that he is one of the most successful contemporary art dealers of the past half-century, showing artists like Bruce Nauman, William Wegman and Tom Sachs with Angela Westwater, his business partner since the 1970s, this show, “A Picture Gallery in the Italian Tradition of the Quadreria (1750-1850),” seemed a little out of place. Read More
The Art Newspaper reports that Yayoi Kusama will leave Gagosian Gallery, this news breaking just one day after Damien Hirst announced his own plans to leave the gallery. Read More
Georgina Adam reports today in the Financial Times that Damien Hirst will split with his longtime dealer Gagosian gallery. Read More
