Teiger Foundation has named Larissa Harris its first executive director. In her new role, Harris will be charged with expanding the grantmaking initiative of the nonprofit, which was established in 2008 to promote the vision of contemporary art collector David Teiger, who died in 2014. Additionally, she will work to […]
Year: 2020
Jacques Jordaens: Baroque masterpiece found in Brussels town hall
A painting that hung for some 60 years in a Brussels town hall has been authenticated as the oldest known version of one of Flemish master Jacques Jordaens’ most famous works. The discovery of the Holy Family painting was made during a 2019 inventory of cultural works in Saint-Gilles town […]
John Waters Has Pledged to Donate His Art Collection to the Baltimore Museum
“Who wants to be famous?” screams Divine in John Waters’s 1974 comedy Female Trouble. “Who wants to die for art?” Even if Waters himself won’t die for art exactly, he will, when he dies, donate his art collection—to his hometown institution, the Baltimore Museum of Art. The beloved cult filmmaker and visual artist will […]
Cosmoscow determined to be the first major fair to go-ahead
The event still plans to run this week and hopes for a less distracted local Russian collector base, starved of international art travels The eighth Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair (11 to 13 September) will be the “first classic ‘Messe’ model fair to be taking place in the fall season” […]
Frank Dunphy, Who Helped Damien Hirst, Has Died
Frank Dunphy, the Bullish Business Manager who helped Damien Hirst amass Millions, has died. Dunphy negotiated high percentages of gallery sales for Hirst and encouraged him to sell work through auction houses. Frank Dunphy, the business brain behind Damien Hirst and several other successful YBAs, died on Sunday. He was […]
Matisse. Reflections on a great artist
I would be more impressed by Jack Flam’s delicacy, a standard compunction of Matisse scholars still apparent in the distinctly G-rated catalog texts of John Elderfield’s great MoMA show, if I thought Flam covered his ears and hummed when interviewees started relating the artist’s amours. I rather suspect he listened […]
Gavin Brown to close his gallery and join Barbara Gladstone’s
In a surprise announcement on Monday, the pioneering New York art dealer Gavin Brown said he is shutting down his eponymous enterprise, which includes an exhibition space in a former brewery in Harlem and a deconsecrated church in Rome, and joining the veteran dealer Barbara Gladstone’s business. He will bring […]
Gagosian opens new gallery in Athens
Gagosian is to open a new gallery in Athens this autumn with an exhibition of marble and works on paper by the US artist Brice Marden, who has a studio in Greece. The show will run from 24 September to 19 December at the gallery’s new space at 22 Anapiron […]
Germany boosts art acquisition budget to €3m from €500,000 to support artists and galleries
The German government has beefed up this year’s budget for art acquisitions for the federal collection, pledging to buy around 150 works worth €3m in total in a bid to help artists and galleries overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. An independent commission will purchase art directly from […]
Artist Chen Weiming to create a monument to Hong Kong protests in California’s Mojave Desert
Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a monumental sculpture by the California-based Chinese artist Chen Weiming, who wants to pay tribute to the protesters and the city that has been supporting the democracy movement in mainland China for the past three […]