Famed artist duo Gilbert & George, who describe themselves as two men who are together one artist, have unveiled a new gallery in London dedicated to their work. The pair — Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore — have been working together for six decades, creating absurdist performance art and image-based […]
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0 London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has made a most unexpected acquisition: a ticket kiosk on a small traffic island just outside its new entrance. But it is the hidden space below street level that is important: a former underground Victorian public lavatory, which closed in the 1970s. This unusual site […]
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0 This year, Mumbai-based Jhaveri Contemporary brings together artists across generations from South Asia and its diaspora, many of whom are showing at Frieze for the first time. What unites these artists is a focus on religious and spiritual practice, expressed through painting, sculpture, photography, and textiles. “The stand brings together […]
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0 Hindman Auctions set a new world auction record for Martin Wong’s Persuit (El Que Gane Pierde – He Who Wins Looses), 1984, which sold for $1.1 million in its Post War & Contemporary Art Auction. Offered with an estimate of $500,000 to $700,000, the work saw competitive bidding and received strong […]
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0 Sotheby’s will debut its celebrity-driven “Contemporary Curated” series in Hong Kong on June 18 with Taiwanese singer Jay Chou acting as the influencer. But the heartthrob won’t be the only star celebrated in the series. A work by Jean-Michel Basquiat that famously appeared in the background of the New York […]
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0 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 […]
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0 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 […]
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0 A central gallery within the New York art scene will reportedly close for good. Marlborough Gallery, which operates spaces in New York and London, is shuttering its Manhattan flagship amid a debacle involving an alleged disagreement between the family that operates the space and the gallery’s board members. The gallery […]
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0 A Collapsing Art Market Will Hurt Underrepresented Artists the Most. Here’s How to Ensure Their Voices Are Not Lost Last month, as we switched off the lights at Goodman Gallery, closing our spaces alongside fellow galleries around the world in response to COVID-19, my head was spinning. I tried to […]
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0 The inauguration of the Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection gallery in Paris, initially due to open in mid-June, has been postponed to next spring due to Covid-19 and the French government’s measures to contain the spread of the virus. Today’s announcement follows an earlier one in March, at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak […]
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