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” […]
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0 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 […]
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0 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 […]
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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 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 […]
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0 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 […]
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0 A massive explosion in a warehouse at the port of Beirut on Tuesday evening, thought to be caused by some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored at the site for six years, has killed at time of writing at least 145 people and injured more than 5,000. The devastating blast has […]
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0 Louise Bourgeois’s art took many different forms, and it often explored topics such as memory, sex, and trauma. But the works that have come to define the late artist’s career are her sculptures of spiders, some of which tower 30 feet into the air and menacingly loom over viewers’ heads. […]
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0 Three new exhibitions will be on display when the museum’s Fifth Avenue location begins welcoming visitors again on Aug. 29. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that its landmark location on Fifth Avenue will welcome visitors five days a week, Thursday through Monday, when it reopens to the […]
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