Damien Hirst Leaves Gagosian
Georgina Adam reports today in the Financial Times that Damien Hirst will split with his longtime dealer Gagosian gallery. Read More
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Goodbye, Greenberg Van Doren, Hello, Van Doren Waxter
It’s a big day for Dorsey Waxter, the director of Midtown gallery Greenberg Van Doren. The New York Times broke the news today that the gallery is moving from the Crown Building, on Fifth Avenue, near 57th Street, to 23 East 73rd, near Madison Avenue, and changing its name to Van Doren Waxter. In addition, it reported that Ms. Waxter has been named the next president of the Art Dealers Association of America. Ronald K. Greenberg is leaving the gallery he cofounded with John Van Doren to become a private dealer in St. Louis, where the gallery first opened more than 30 years ago. Read More
Marlborough Chelsea, in Middle of Reconstruction, Plans Pizza Party
Even as megawatt artists like Jeff Koons expand their repertoires by showing with various rapidly expanding, empire-like galleries—in Koons’s case, an upcoming show with David Zwirner, as opposed to his regular Gagosian Gallery—artists in a younger set are also making moves, and ambitious dealers of their own generation, like Max Levai, are ready for them. Mr. Levai, the 24-year-old scion of the 49-year-old Marlborough Gallery (he’s the son of its president, Pierre Levai), has been busy signing artists recently and doing some expansion of his own. Read More
Jeff Koons to Show at David Zwirner
The Art Newspaper reported in Miami today that Jeff Koons has planned a show at David Zwirner for this May, his first with the gallery and a major coup for the blue-chip Chelsea stalwart. Read More
Sperone Westwater Fights Plans for Lower East Side Hotel
Jack Goldstein’s ‘Two Fencers’ Is Being Performed Tonight at 10
It’s about 7 p.m. in New York, and though you may not know it, you have an important choice to make. You can head back home, maybe have a quiet evening at your apartment—have some dinner, read a book, that sort of thing. Or you can head up to the Venus Over Manhattan gallery at 980 Madison (that’s between East 76th and 77th Street), which tonight is playing host to a relatively rare performance of Jack Goldstein’s Two Fencers (1976) piece. (Full disclosure: VoM is owned by Adam Lindemann, who contributes to The Observer.) Read More
Larry Gagosian Thought the ‘Cruel and Offensive’ E-mail Was ‘Cruel,’ but Also ‘Amusing’
Earlier today David Baum, a lawyer representing plaintiff Jan Cowles in her ongoing lawsuit against Larry Gagosian and his gallery, filed papers that seek to unearth Mr. Gagosian’s financial records and includes Mr. Gagosian’s complete deposition in the case, which took place a few weeks ago. It offers a fascinating look at the dealer’s business model. In it, Mr. Gagosian describes Gagosian Gallery director Deborah McLeod’s now infamous solicitation for a “cruel and offensive” offer from collector Thompson Dean for a 1964 Roy Lichtenstein work as amusing, though he wishes it hadn’t been in writing. You’ll find the entire deposition at the end of this post. Read More
Report: Galleries Represent More Male Artists Than Female Artists
Here’s some disheartening news to consider this afternoon: 67 percent of galleries at London’s recent Frieze Art Fair have rosters with less than one third women, according to the East London Fawcett Group, a U.K. gender-equality organization. It published its results in a report called the ELF Great East London Art Audit, which was inspired by a similar study that the feminist art group the Guerrilla Girls conducted in 1985 on a show at the Museum of Modern Art. They also determined that only a minuscule 1.5 percent of galleries at the fair show more women than men. This comes to us via Huffington Post with an assist from Blouin Artinfo. Read More
Matthew Marks to Open Second Los Angeles Space
The New York dealer Matthew Marks may be notoriously circumspect when it comes to conversation, but there’s at least one area where he’s expansive: real estate. Read More
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Institution, Will Close After Three Decades
After nearly 30 years in business, Donald Young Gallery, one of Chicago’s premier commercial space for shows by leading international artists, is closing. Its founder, Donald Young, died of cancer in April. He started the gallery in 1983, after he and dealer Rhona Hoffman parted ways in the gallery they had run together since 1976.
The gallery will host a closing reception on Friday, Nov. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. Read More
