Back in June, you may recall that Thaddaeus Ropac was not pleased at the announcement that Gagosian will open a new gallery in Paris this fall, just as Mr. Ropac will, with a debut show featuring the work of Anselm Kiefer, the same artist Mr. Ropac had planned to use for his debut show in his new space. The Financial Times‘ Georgina Adams said Mr. Ropac was “furious” about the Gagosian plans. Read More
Thaddaeus Ropac is none too pleased with Larry Gagosian’s decision to open his new gallery in Paris with a show of work by Anselm Kiefer, Georgina Adam reports in her Financial Times column this week. Read More
Artist Julien Langendorff, a Paris-based artist and musician with an upcoming show at Agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour, has an intriguing interview up on Opening Ceremony in which he discusses being raised by a psychics (I think my grandmother was kind of a witch”), his interest in Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, getting rejected by tony Paris art school École des Beaux Arts (“Then again, the director now buys my stuff”), as well as having his tarot read by Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Read More
The next place you run into work from the collection of Paris’s Centre Pompidou may be at a shopping mall in Brazil, if the museum’s president, Alain Seban, gets his way. Read More
Beginning Wednesday, the Louvre is offering audio tours via Nintendo 3DS systems as part of an ongoing partnership between the people who brought you the Mona Lisa and the people who brought you Mario. Read More
At last summer’s Venice Biennale, French artist Loris Gréaud presented a massive metal whale with an austere living chamber inside. Those who wanted to view it had to agree to spend a full 24 hours inside. Such is Mr. Gréaud’s way. He works over long durations, and often on a grand scale. (Though he has also gone quite small, as at the 2006 Frieze Art Fair, presenting nanosculptures invisible to the naked eye.) And now he is readying one of the largest-imaginable projects any contemporary artist could undertake, a combined exhibition with the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is the first time the museums have ever collaborated on such a project. The exhibition will open in May, 2013, and is being organized by Marie-Laure Bernadac at the Louvre and Michel Gauthier at the Centre Pompidou. Read More
Last year, Ginette Heilbronn Moulin, the 85-year-old chairwoman of the Galeries Lafayette department stores, filed a criminal complaint against members of the Wildenstein family that accuses them of knowing the whereabouts of an 1889 Monet study, Torrent de la Creuse, that was stolen by the Nazis and thought to have been lost completely after the war. Today, The New York Times offers a few gory details. Read More
In case you missed it in our story about the new edition of the VIP Art Fair, Paris and Salzburg dealer Thaddaeus Ropac mentioned in our conversation about the fair that he will soon reveal details about a new 30,000 square-foot gallery he’s opening in the northeast of Paris. Read More
