Archive for the ‘galleries’ Category

America, Captured in a Flash by Robert Frank (NY Times) Art Among Friends is Up for Sale (NY Times) The Angel in the Architecture:  Kandisky at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Behind Duchamp’s Door at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (WSJ) Hockney, Wolfe, Mailer Draw Themselves in Quirky Portraits Sale (Bloomberg) Kapoor Fires Canon, Makes Mess […]


Open the Storeroom:  Let’s Put on a Show at MOCA (NY Times) Subway Riders Are Greeted With a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color (NY Times) Fortune in Warhol Pop Art Stolen in Los Angeles (LA Times) Leibovitz Buys Back Control of Photos, Real Estate (Bloomberg) Gagosian in Talks to Open Paris Gallery, Dealers Say (Bloomberg) […]


Previously published on ForYourArt.com by Emily Waldorf After taking in European 18th century painters at the Wallace Collection and Impressionist and Modern masters at the Courtauld Gallery, walking into the Saatchi Gallery’s current exhibition, Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, is a breath of fresh air. Housed in the Duke of York’s building on the […]


Iranians Shine, Assisted by Expatriate Art Dealer (NY Times) In the Hamptons, A Painting Season and More (NY Times) Creative Views of the Muslim Head Scarf (NY Times) A Gift for Every State:  The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection (WSJ) Madoff Investor’s Art Dealer Got $26.5 Million in Rothko Sale (Bloomberg) Behind Michael Govan’s Almost […]


Art or Ad or What?  Lynda Benglis’ Photograph Caused a Lot of Fuss (NY Times) Stripping Away the Darkness as Murals Are Reborn at Rockefeller Plaza (NY Times) A Career Woman’s Short but Sweet Career in the 17th Century (NY Times) The Hand and Eye of Genius:  Frank Lloyd Wright (WSJ) Lehman Mounts Art Bargain […]


An Offering Fit for the Emperors (NY Times) Femininity Salvaged: Lillian Bassman’s Photographs (NY Times) Hundreds Try Out for Art-World Reality Show (NY Times) Modern Maison de Verre in Paris (WSJ) Banksy Works Vanish From Auctions As Demands Drop for Urban Art (Bloomberg) Watts Towers Restoration (ARTINFO) Party Pics: Chinatown Art Walk (ARTINFO) Party Pics: […]


Koons and a Sailor Man in London (NY Times) Sketch to Stage:  Modern Designs for Theater and Opera at Morgan Library (NY Times) Artist Dash Snow Dead of Drug Overdose (ARTINFO) Decoration, Trompe l’Oeil, and Soft Porn at ArtHamptons (ARTINFO) Bon Jovi, ‘Real Housewives,’ Few Buyers Attend ArtHamptons (Bloomberg) Art Dealer Lawrence Salander Indicted for […]


How the Art World Memorialized the King of Pop (ARTINFO) The Rage to Buy Vanishing Art Works in London (NY Times – Global Edition) Dan Graham at Whitney:  A Round Peg (NY Times) In Chelsea, Art Intersects with Reality of Iranian Conflict (NY Times) Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Gunpowder into Art at Guggenheim Bilbao (WSJ) The […]


What: Jeana Sohn:  Sleep Sleep Where:  Taylor de Cordoba, 2660 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90034 When:  Through June 27, 2009 Why:  Los Angeles-based, CalArts-educated Jeana Sohn’s new work is breathtaking in its edgy innocence.  The series of paintings on panel feature doll like fairies surrounded by natural, botanical images that are filled […]


‘Futurism’ at Tate Modern: The Futurists’ Futile Chase After Motion (NY Times) In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese’s Figures Out to Play (NY Times) This Summer, Some Galleries Are Sweating Their Survival (NY Times) ‘Your Bright Future’ at LACMA (LA Times) Christie’s Resumes Cutting Jobs After May N.Y. Auctions Decline (Bloomberg) Judge Slams MoMA, Guggenheim […]