Archive for the ‘New York’ Category

The Scull Collection:  Showing a Couple’s Eye for Art (and Money) (NY Times) Corcoran Gallery’s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows (NY Times) Finding an Artful Way to Expand the Whitney (NY Times) A Flowering of Activity for Robert Irwin (LA Times) With New Artwork, Piero Golia Says, ‘L.A., I’m Home!’ (LA Times) Saint Laurent Stripped […]


Ford Foundation Grants to Aid Art Spaces and Housing (NY Times) The Truths of Art Studios Onstage in “Red” (NY Times) New Faces on Southland Art Museum Scene (LA Times) L.A. Woman Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Selling Bogus Art (LA Times) Watts Towers May Get LACMA As a Guardian (LA Times) Manhattan […]


Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century (NY Times) Kiki Smith:  Works in Glass (NY Times) J.M.W. Turner’s Last Rome Painting to Be Sold (NY Times) Jeff Koons Curator’s Debut Features Candy Giants, Jesus:  Review (Bloomberg) Anish Kapoor to Design $29 Million Olympic Tower (Bloomberg) Cy Twombly:  Hitting the Louvre Ceiling (LA Times) Review:  ‘Leonardo […]


The New Guard of Curators Steps Up (NY Times) Judith Rothschild Foundation Promotes Art as Well as Sole Trustee (NY Times) Performance Art Gains Favor, Fights Ensue (NY Times) Art Review:  Mark Grotjahn at Blum & Poe (LA Times) Christie’s to Auction off Michael Crichton’s Art Collection (LA Times) Michelangelo:  Anatomy as Architecture at the […]


Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection (NY Times) Caravaggio:  An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine (NY Times) Ken Price, Suddenly Dominating New York Galleries (NY Times) Andreas Gursky Makes a Long-Distance Connection (LA Times) Ruben Ochoa:  In a Construction Zone (LA Times) $2.7 Billion Dutch Fair Lures Collectors as Confidence Rises (Bloomberg) […]


Jeff Koons, one of the world’s most famous living artists, is well-known for his inflatable lobsters, puppy dogs, and porn stars but he is also a passionate and very private collector of Old Masters and blue-chip 19th and 20th century works.  In addition to being an avid collector, Mr. Koons can now add curator to […]


Bustling Armory Opening Heralds Contemporary Art Market Resurgence (ARTINFO) The AI Interview:  Alex Katz (ARTINFO) Buyer of Giacometti Sculpture is Revealed (NY Times) The Koons Collection (NY Times) Anger and Angst, Explored with Animation by William Kentridge (NY Times) At the Hammer, Louisa Lambri Makes Herself at Home (LA Times) Richard Wyatt’s Reunion with His […]


Whitney 75th Biennial Declared Women’s Biennial (NY Times) Design for New American Embassy in London Criticized (NY Times) In Vancouver, an Artwork With Its Own Barkeeps (NY Times) Art Review:  Mercedes Matter at the Weisman Museum (LA Times) Art Review:  Chris Barnard at Sam Lee Gallery (LA Times) Swann’s African-American Art Auction Soars (ARTINFO) New […]


Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles (NY Times) From Instant Thrill of Polaroid, Enduring Art, Now for Sale (NY Times) Alexander McQueen, Designer, is Dead at 40 (NY Times) Giacometti Record and Other Bright Spots for the Art Market (WSJ) Renoir as Closet Modernist at LACMA (WSJ) Fight for Doig, Fontana Boosts $84.5 Million Sotheby’s […]


At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record (NY Times) In the Naked Museum:  Talking, Thinking, Encountering at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Steve McQueen:  Intense Seeker of Powerful Elegance (NY Times) In Goth They Trust:  Tim Burton at MoMa (WSJ) Nexus New York:  Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (WSJ) Dell Buys Magnum Photo Print […]